“Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-27 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near the village of Marinka in the Donetsk People’s Republic,” the ministry said in a statement.
On March 7, the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft in the DPR.
Earlier it became known that two Ukrainian aircraft, a Su-27 and a MiG-29, as well as a Mi-8 helicopter, were shot down in the NVO zone.