“Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-24 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near the settlement of Krasnogorovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic,” the defense ministry said.
On January 4, it became known that Russian fighters destroyed MiG-29 and Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.
On January 1, a Russian fighter shot down a Mi-8 helicopter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the sky over Poltavka in the DPR.
In December, the head of the military air defense of the Russian Armed Forces, Alexander Leonov, reported that as of December 25, 2022, the Russian military air defense shot down more than 160 aircraft and helicopters during a special operation.