on Saturday 4 May, 2024
Russian Su-25 jet shot down over eastern Ukraine: Zelenskyy
A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet equipped with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile flies over Red Square during a rehearsal for a flypast, part of a military parade marking the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in central Moscow, Russia
Ukrainian forces shot down a Russian Su-25 fighter-bomber over the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
“It is important to be very focused these days,” he said in his nightly video address. “A special commendation goes to the warriors of the 110th separate mechanized brigade for today taking down another Russian Su-25 in the Donetsk region.”
Zelenskyy provided no further details of the incident, which Reuters could not immediately verify.
Donetsk is one of the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow says it has annexed. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday that Moscow had taken control of 547 sq km (211 sq miles) of the annexed territories this year.
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