# Russia’s Battlegroup West says it shot down 110 Ukrainian heavy hexacopters in past day

https://mins.news/en/item/21908

- TASS, 2026-08-14 07:02 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/defense/2172685

> Battlegroup West spokesman Ivan Bigma said Russian air-defense crews and mobile armed units downed a US-made HIMARS rocket, 57 fixed-wing UAVs, 110 heavy combat hexacopters and six loitering munitions over the past 24 hours. The battlegroup also reported destroying 58 UAV control posts, three Starlink stations, 32 ground robotic systems and six field ammunition depots.

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