Russian aircraft targeted a city of Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast overnight on March 12, dropping a guided bomb on a residential area, Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported.
France has claimed that one of its Mirage 2000 fighter jets intercepted a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft off the coast of Estonia. Source: European Pravda, citing the French General Staff Details: The brief statement said that France had scrambled the Mirage 2000 and intercepted the Il-20 aircraft off the coast of Estonia.
Forbes suggests that the success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in shooting down Russian aircraft is linked to the use of expensive foreign missiles such as Patriot and NASAMS, as well as Russia's "fog of war" brought on by the loss of a third of their Beriev A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft.