SUSPECTED pro-Russia separatist militiamen shot down a MiG-29 military fighter jet near the city of Luhansk in Ukraine's Luhansk\nOblast early on 17 August, causing no casualties, Al-Jazeera reported. Government officials confirmed the attack and stated\nthe pilot ejected himself from the jet ...
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MOSCOW, February 3. /TASS/. A Su-25 fighter jet of the Russian Aerospace Force was shot down by militants in Syria on Saturday, the pilot ejected but was killed later by terrorists, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "On 3 February 2018, a Russian fighter jet Su-25 crashed when flying ...
Spokesman Andrei Lysenko said in a televised briefing that the pilot of the Sukhoi-25 jet was forced to bail from his craft after it was shot down Wednesday evening. Ukrainian officials have recently accused Russia's armed forces of being directly implicated in attacks on Ukrainian troops battling...
Russian air defences may have shot down an Azerbaijan Airlines flight after misidentifying it, according to US military sources. Two unnamed officials who spoke to Sky News' US partner NBC News said America had intelligence indicating Russia may h...
in the city of Rostov-on-Don Saturday morning and had nearly advanced to Moscow later that day when Prigozhin called off his march. The only reported incident of violence was a confrontation between Wagner forces and a Russian helicopter that ended with the aircraft being shot down, he said...
The militants, however, did not offer any evidence to back up their claim. Russia's Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov told Interfax news agency the claim "can't be considered accurate." Militants in northern Sinai have not to date shot down commercial airliners or fighter jets. There have been...
Putin has received a message from Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressing his “sympathy and deep condolences” to the family of the killed pilot and apologized, Dmitry Peskov told reporters yesterday. Russia reacted with ire after Turkey in November shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber at the Syrian borde...
Russian forces have shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet, according to a statement released by the Russian Defense Ministry on Sunday. The ministry also reported that Kiev’s forces have lost several Western-made armor pieces, including a Bradley fighting vehicle. “Seventeen counterattacks by...
“I don’t think this is deliberate at all,” he noted, pointing out that Russia is “very worried” about longer-range active Ukrainian drones that are “very often not getting shot down.” The US official who talked to CNN on Thursday did not say what type of system...