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On 14 June 2014, an Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft of the 25th Transport Aviation Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by forces of the Russia-backed separatists from Luhansk People's Republic while on approach to land at Luhansk International Airport, Ukraine, during the initial phase of the war in Donbas. The aircraft was ...
A military aircraft of unspecified type was destroyed by Russian missiles in Odesa Air Base. [47] 24 February L-39 Albatros: An L-39 Albatros light attack jet from the 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade piloted by Dmytro Kolomiyets was shot down by Russian aircraft in Khmelnytskyi Oblast. [48] [49] [50] (5) 24 February 5 MiG-29
The BBC reported on the evening of 24 January, that after eight hours of no official information being given, two official statements were made by the Ukrainian General Staff and the HUR that "amount to acknowledgement that Ukraine may have shot the plane down". [52] Western military analysts also told BBC News Russian that video taken of the ...
Ukraine says it shot down a Russian spy plane and airborne command center over the Azov Sea, a significant blow to Vladimir Putin's military. Ukraine says it shot down 2 Russian command planes, a ...
The Ukrainian air force shot down a Russian early warning and control plane that can spot targets up to 650 kilometers (400 miles) away and a key command center aircraft that relays information to ...
On 9 May 2022, a Russian Su-35 fighter shot down a Mi-14 helicopter from the Ukrainian Navy Aviation killing Colonel Igor Bedzay, deputy head of the Ukrainian aircraft division of the Navy. [166] [167] As of August 2023, Russian aircraft was credited to have shot down 12 Ukrainian aircraft in air vs air engagements. [168]
This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to continue flying normally, and then subsequently crashing into land or sea, often ...
[168] [169] [170] This news was repeated by channels in Russia, with LifeNews reporting "a new victory of Donetsk self-defence who shot down yet another Ukrainian airplane". [171] Russian news agency TASS also reported eyewitness accounts claiming that the Donbas militia had just shot down a Ukrainian An-26 military aircraft with a missile. [172]