Ukrainian forces shot down a Russian Su-25 fighter-bomber over the Donetsk area in japanese Ukraine on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated.
“You will need to be very targeted nowadays,” he stated in his nightly video tackle. “A particular commendation goes to the soldiers of the one hundred and tenth separate mechanised brigade for at present taking down one other Russian Su-25 within the Donetsk area.”
Zelenskiy supplied no additional particulars of the incident, which Reuters couldn’t instantly confirm.
Donetsk is without doubt one of the 4 areas of Ukraine that Moscow says it has annexed. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu stated on Friday that Moscow had taken management of 547 sq km (211 sq miles) of the annexed territories this yr.