Igor Konashenkov, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, said that the Russian army shot down two Su-27 and MiG-29 fighter jets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. It has been reported TASS.
“Air defense systems shot down a Su-27 fighter jet of the Ukrainian Air Force near the settlement of Nikiforovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic,” Konashenkov said. said.
According to him, the MiG-29 fighter jet was shot down near the village of Lyubytske in the Zaporozhye region. In addition, 24 shells from HIMARS, Uragan and Alder rocket launchers were seized.
Previously reported, on the Vremevsky ledge, located at the junction of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Zaporozhye region, in one day the “eastern” group of Russian fighters repulsed three attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) in the settlements of Neskuchnoe and Levadnoe. The Ministry of Defense noted that an assault unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces also repelled an attack under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, near the Novodonetskoye settlement in the DPR.