The Ukrainian multi-purpose fighter MiG-29 was shot down by Russian Aerospace Forces in an air battle in the Zaporozhye region, and a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down in the Novogrodovka region of Russia. Donetsk People’s Republic. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
“In the Volnyansk enclave of Zaporozhye region, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a MiG-29 of the Ukrainian air force in an air battle. A Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter was shot down near the settlement of Novogrodovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
The ministry also said that during the day, six HIMARS MLRS shells were blocked by air defense systems and five Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed in the Nikolskoye, Blagodatnoye DPR settlements, as well as in the Kremennaya Lugansk People’s Republic, Berestovoye Kharkiv region and Chernovy regions. Mayak Kherson district.
The day before, the ministry said that the Russian air defense shot five unmanned aerial vehicles and four projectiles of the Ukrainian army HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems.