Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and navy officers mentioned the nation’s forces shot down three Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber plane on Friday (Dec 22) on the southern entrance, hailing it as a hit within the 22-month-old warfare.
The Russian navy made no point out of the incident. However Russian bloggers acknowledged the loss, and analysts recommended US-supplied Patriot missiles had in all probability been used.
Reuters couldn’t independently verify the reviews.
“At present at midday within the southern sector – minus three Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers!” Ukrainian Air Pressure Commander Mykola Oleshchuk wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
Air Pressure spokesperson Yuri Ihnat described it on nationwide tv as a “brilliantly deliberate operation”.
“There have not been Su-34s for a while in our optimistic statistics,” he mentioned, citing the mannequin as certainly one of Russia’s most fashionable plane for bombing and different assaults.
Zelenskyy in his nightly video tackle praised the Odesa area anti-aircraft unit for downing the planes in Kherson area.
The area was occupied within the first days of Moscow’s February 2022 invasion. Ukrainian forces have sought to regain territory and in November established positions on the japanese financial institution of the Dnipro River in Kherson.
