Russia announces shooting down 5 Ukrainian Air Force planes in one day
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday, that the Russian Air Force shot down 5 Ukrainian Air Force planes in different regions of Ukraine within one day.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement: “Fight aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down five aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in one day, as a Ukrainian Su-27 fighter was shot down near the village of Lozovo in the Kharkov region.
A Su-24 belongs to the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down near the village of Izyum in the Kharkov region.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced today that the Russian forces carried out a retaliatory strike and eliminated more than 600 Ukrainian soldiers, in response to the attack that targeted a Russian deployment point in Makeyevka a week ago.
The Ministry of Defense said in a press statement today, Sunday, that reconnaissance systems revealed, during the past 24 hours, bases for Ukrainian forces in the city of Kramatorsk, and this information has been reliably verified, as there were more than 700 fighters from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Complex No. 28, and more than 600 in Complex No. 47.
The ministry added that as a result of an intense Russian missile attack on the temporary stationing points of units of the Ukrainian forces, more than 600 Ukrainian soldiers were killed.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced last Tuesday that 89 Russian soldiers were killed as a result of the missile strike that Kyiv forces directed at a temporary gathering site for Russian soldiers near the city of Makeyevka in Donetsk on New Year’s Eve.
The ministry explained that the use of mobile phones by Russian soldiers, although it was forbidden for them, revealed to Kyiv forces their location.
