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The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported on June 7 that another Russian Su-25 jet aircraft had been downed in the past 24 hours.
The Su-25 is meant to provide close air support for Russian troops on the ground.
The General Staff did not specify where Ukrainian forces shot down the Soviet-era aircraft, unlike its update on April 7, when it announced that a Su-25 had been shot down near Maryinka in Donetsk Oblast.
Since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, Ukrainian forces have successfully taken out 314 Russian aircraft, along with 299 helicopters, according to the General Staff.
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Russia’s air force has proven insufficiently effective when it comes to crushing Ukrainian resistance. Despite heavily outnumbering Ukraine’s air force, Russia has failed to achieve total air supremacy, with the skies over Ukraine still being contested. And yet there is one aspect in which Russia’s…
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