The commander of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Mykola Oleschuk, reported that the Ukrainian military destroyed three Russian Su-34 fighters. He wrote about this in his Telegram channel.
He wrote that on the night of December 22, a message from the occupiers was written on a piece of the downed “shaheed” with the series “ІІ”. And today the occupiers received an answer. “Today, at noon, in the Southern direction – minus three Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers,” noted Mykola Oleschuk.
“Aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units and mobile fire groups of the Air Force and the Defence Forces of Ukraine were involved in repelling the air attack,” the official statement said. “As a result of combat operations, 24 “shahedas” were shot down within Kyiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Zhytomyr, Rivne, and Khmelnytskyi regions.”
In the morning summary of the General Staff, it was reported that the enemy had lost an estimated 324 aircraft since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Today this indicator has become more.
The Su-34 is a Soviet/Russian two-seat fighter-bomber. It was designed to carry out accurate missile-bombing attacks on enemy ground targets in operational and tactical depth and to destroy enemy air targets. It can develop a speed of up to 1.9 thousand km/h at an altitude of up to 14.6 km.
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