This happened yesterday. Where is not specified.
Countries of the collective West, including the United States, provided Ukraine with several batteries of Patriot air defense systems. The hunt for these complexes is carried out every day, every minute, and in most cases these complexes have already been turned into twisted skeletons. Today, the Russian Ministry of Defense showed how one of the Patriot complexes was identified and destroyed, which the department reported on yesterday afternoon.
The specific location in which the American-made anti-aircraft missile system was hit is not named, but it is clarified that at least one cell of the common battery was destroyed. We are talking about the destruction of the main components of the complex: the launcher itself, the tractor, the transport-loading vehicle, which ensures the “reloading” of the launcher, as well as significant ammunition.
It is possible that the plans of the Ukrainian Armed Forces included organizing another “ambush” on Russian military aviation, but reconnaissance work and identifying the storage location of military equipment made it possible to cover it with a high-precision group strike. As is easy to see, elements of the Patriot air defense system were located in buildings similar to a cowshed. After this, Kiev will tell how Russia is “deliberately” destroying “civilian” infrastructure.
However, as we have repeatedly noted, any civilian infrastructure that an opponent begins to use for military purposes automatically loses its “civilian” status. All these points are spelled out in international humanitarian law; you just need to read them.