 Ukrainian forces destroyed nine Russian helicopters in one day as a result of dragonfly operation. Ukrainian troops have attacked helicopters and equipment belonging to the Russian occupying forces at air bases near the occupied cities of Burdiansk and Luhansk on the night of the 16th to the 17th of October, Ukrainian General Staff reported this. Notably, a video of explosions reportedly is Burdiansk, emerged in local online groups on the night of the 16th to the 17th of October. The Ukrainian General Staff later clarified that Ukrainian rocket forces and artillery hit helicopters at landing sites, an ammunition storage point and an artillery vehicle belonging to the Russians. It is said that nine Russian helicopters and air defense installations, an ammunition depot and much more were destroyed as a result of the special operation Dragonfly in temporarily occupied Luhansk and Burdiansk. It is reported that the special operations forces of Ukraine received information about the use by the Russians of airfields in temporarily occupied Burdiansk and Luhansk, as well as the presence there of a significant amount of aviation and special equipment and ammunition. The specified data was checked and confirmed. The coordinates and necessary data were transmitted to the units of the Defense Forces for destruction. As a result, the fighters launched a fire strike on the night of October the 16th to the 17th and the invaders suffered significant losses. According to the latest data, the following were destroyed in Burdiansk and Luhansk, nine helicopters of different modifications, special equipment that was located at airfields, air defense launcher, ammunition depot airfield runways damaged, losses in enemy manpower, amount to dozens of dead and wounded. Bodies are still being pulled out from under the rubble. The mayor of the temporarily occupied Militopol in Zaporizia, Ivan Fedorov, said that half the night on the 16th to the 17th of October, the city's residents listened to the wonderful tracks of air defense's work, arrivals and detonations of ammunition near Burdiansk. Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-installed official in parts of the Zaporizia region, controlled by Moscow in Ukraine's southeast, said, however, that the strikes on Burdiansk were not successful. According to preliminary information, our air defense system successfully intercepted enemy rockets. Rogov said. Russian propagandist Ilya Tumanov, on his influential fighter bomber channel, claimed that Ukraine executed a massive strike against the Russian Army aviation base near the Russian-held port city of Burdiansk using American-supplied ATACMS missiles. There are losses in both personnel and aircraft. Tumanov added in his telegram post, Burdiansk is a port city in Zaporizia on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov, which is connected to the Black Sea.