Afrasianet - The commander of the Russian "Ahmed" special forces, Apti Alaedinov, announced the destruction of the Chechen "Ahmed" forces of the French "Crotal" air defense system.

"The most interesting thing is that the fighters of Ahmed's special forces destroyed the Kruttal air defense system today, my comrades burned this $8 million air defense system, my comrades burned it using the 60,000-rouble Vibivishka march and that shows the true value of French and NATO equipment,"  Alaa al-Dinov said in a video posted on his Telegram channel.

"The enemy was deploying in several directions, Ahmed's forces today destroyed one tank and three armored combat vehicles," he said.

Aladdinov had earlier said during an interview with RT that "the situation in Kursk was ambiguous and unclear, we were able to locate all the enemies and began to eliminate them, we inflicted a lot of war and human equipment on the enemy, the current situation in Kursk is not bad and we are progressing significantly."

He added: "Ukrainian forces tried to take control of the city of Kursk to force us to sit at the negotiating table, the enemy did not expect our reaction, we are advancing on several axes, especially in Donetsk, Ukraine gathered all their forces and sent them to Kursk and we destroyed half of them, 11,600 fighters attacked Kursk."

He stressed that "NATO is the one who planned this operation and carried it out and armed the Ukrainians with its equipment, the Ukrainian forces promote the death of our leaders and this is not true, if a dirty bomb hits the Russia we will respond with nuclear weapons, there will be no dialogue with any party until the objectives of the special military operation are achieved, we have great experience in fighting against NATO."

"We will need some time to clear the area because we do not want to destroy our region, Zelensky has become a target for NATO forces because he has important information," he concluded.