# Russia’s Battlegroup West says it destroyed HIMARS rocket, 117 Ukrainian UAVs in past day

https://mins.news/en/item/66998

- TASS, 2026-09-21 08:12 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/defense/2190463

> Leonid Sharov, spokesman for Russia’s Battlegroup West, said its air-defense teams and mobile armed units had downed a US-made HIMARS rocket, 53 fixed-wing UAVs and 117 Ukrainian R-18 heavy combat octocopters over the previous 24 hours. He also reported the destruction of 56 UAV control centers, three satellite communications stations, 42 ground robotic systems and two field ammunition depots.

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