Anti-aircraft units shot down the plane using a Man-Portable Air-Defense System in the eastern Donetsk region.
Ukrainian forces shot down and destroyed a Russian Su-25 ground attack aircraft in the eastern Donetsk region, Kyiv's military said on Wednesday.'Ukrainian warriors from the 28th Mechanized Brigade shot down a Russian Su-25 plane in the Kramatorsk direction. Bravo!' Ukraine's defense ministry said in a statement posted to social media.Newsweek contacted the Russian defense ministry by email for comment.
'Another Russian Su-25 burns out in the steppes of the Ukrainian Donbas,' the Khortytsia group of forces said, referring to an area that comprises Ukraine's occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions. 'As of today, Russian assault aviation has one less aircraft. Its wreckage now decorates the Donetsk landscape.'The Kremlin has been pushing for the total capture of the Donbas since Russia's initial invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014, and intense fighting continues in the area.
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