A Su-34 and a Su-35 fighter jet, as well as two Mi-8 helicopters, were downed over the weekend.
On Saturday, Russian state media said that five Russian aircraft werereported that a Su-34 and a Su-35 fighter jet, as well as two Mi-8 helicopters, were downed over the border region.
In a statement posted to his Telegram channel, Prigozhin questioned whether Russian or Ukrainian air defenses could be located at the center of the 20 kilometer radius of the four downed aircraft. Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin is seen in a meeting in Moscow on July 4, 2017. Prigozhin hinted in a Telegram post on Sunday that Russia could be responsible for downed aircraft near the Ukrainian border."Four planes, if you draw a circle in the places of their fall, it turns out that this circle has a diameter of 40 kilometers. That is, the radius of the circle is 20 kilometers," Prigozhin wrote.
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