“During an air battle in the Yasnaya Polyana region of the Donetsk People’s Republic, a Russian fighter shot down a Su-25 of the Ukrainian Air Force,” the Defense Ministry said.

Also, during the counter-battery fight, the Russian Aerospace Forces hit four Ukrainian platoons of multiple launch rocket systems with high-precision weapons in the areas of the settlements of Tarasovka, Novaya Poltavka, Ulyanovsk of the DPR.

In addition, high-precision weapons hit the deployment points of two brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkov.