As it announced that two of Russia s Su-34 fighter-bombers had been blasted out of the sky yesterday, Ukraine s defence ministry boasted that it had eliminated ten enemy planes in as many days
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine has stated that a Russian A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft was shot down on 23 February near the town of Primorsko-Akhtarsk on the Sea of Azov, and after that, five more Russian aircraft were withdrawn from combat operations.
Vladimir Putin has lost another of his diminishing fleet of £260 million A-50U spy planes after a series of drone attacks took out their targets with devastating accuracy using a long-range air defence missile
Video showed huge plumes of smoke billowing from the wreckage in Krasnodar, Russia after the A-50U reconnaissance plane s wing was reportedly torn off by a missile.