2023-12-23 10:47:23
“Let every Russian pilot know our response to every Russian killer – none of them will go unpunished.” This is the comment from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after his air force said it shot down three Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bombers on Friday.
“(Friday) at noon, three Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers were shot down in the southern operational zone,” Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk said on Telegram.
The work of the Patriot system?
In a speech in the evening, Zelensky clarified that these aircraft had been shot down by missiles, and declared himself “grateful to our soldiers who destroyed three Russian planes (…) in our Kherson region”. The Air Force did not specify the fate of the planes’ pilots.
Russian authorities did not immediately confirm the incident. But the influential Russian military blog Fighterbomber spoke of “combat losses” due, according to it, to the Patriot air defense system supplied by the United States.
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