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Russia is training 120 thousand soldiers in Siberia. soldiers who can be sent to storm Kharkiv”>Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleschuk announced that the bomber was shot down by Ukrainian forces. Ukraine managed to shoot down such a bomber for the first time, and representatives of the Air Force said that it was retaliation for the bombing of peaceful Ukrainian cities.
According to a source in the army, the Tu-22M3 bomber with two H-22 cruise missiles managed to be shot down by the S-200 long-range anti-aircraft missile complex.
The Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said that the Tu-22M3 was shot down approximately 300 kilometers from Ukraine as a result of the joint work of the HUR and the Ukrainian Air Force.
According to the HUR, the plane “managed to be shot down about 300 kilometers from Ukraine by the same means with which the Russian A-50 long-range radar and control aircraft was previously shot down.”
HUR also noted that this is the first successful mid-air destruction of a strategic bomber since Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the plane was on its way back to the base airfield “after completing a combat mission.”
There were four pilots in the plane, they ejected. Three were evacuated by the search party, but one pilot was killed.
Russian troops fired rockets into the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine overnight, killing nine people and injuring 19.
In total, on the night of Friday, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 22 different types of missiles and 14 drones, Ukrainian forces managed to shoot down 29 air targets.
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