{"id":2930,"date":"2024-09-15T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2024-09-16T01:38:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T01:38:30","slug":"three-ukrainian-jets-shot-down-russian-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/2024\/09\/15\/three-ukrainian-jets-shot-down-russian-mod\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Ukrainian jets shot down \u2013 Russian MOD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiev\u2019s forces have lost two Soviet-era Su-27s and a Su-29, the Defense Ministry has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russian forces have shot down three Ukrainian fighter jets over the last 24 hours, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.<\/p>\n

Two Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft operated by Kiev were destroyed by the Russian Aerospace Forces, while Russian air defenses have shot down a Mikoyan MiG-29 plane, the ministry said in its daily update on Sunday.<\/p>\n

During the same period, the Russian air defenses also intercepted a US-made HIMARS rocket, four French-made Hammer guided bombs, and 55 drones, it added.<\/p>\n

Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian forces lost more than 2,200 troops along the front line and dozens of units of various equipment, including several US-made M777 towed artillery pieces and British L-119 howitzers.<\/p>\n

The production of Su-27s and MiG-29s started in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, with the fighter jets intended to counter American fourth generation aircraft such as F-15s and F-16s.<\/p>\n

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In July, Forbes reported, citing Oryx defense analysis data, that Ukraine had some 125 jets including Su-27s, Su-25s, MiG-29s and others when the conflict between Moscow and Kiev escalated in February 2022. Around 90 of those aircraft have been destroyed since then, it added.<\/p>\n

A \u201ccoalition\u201d<\/em> of European states, including the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Belgium, promised to supply Kiev with some 80 F-16s more than a year ago.<\/p>\n

Ukraine, which had received fewer than a dozen of the US-designed jets by early August, lost its first F-16 during its maiden combat deployment at the end of the same month. The Western-supplied warplane went down during a Russian missile and drone attack on targets in Kiev, killing one of the country\u2019s most experienced pilots, Aleksey \u2018Moonfish\u2019 Mes.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian investigators have not yet announced the reasons for the crash. According to media reports, the versions on the table include technical problems, pilot error and friendly fire.<\/p>\n

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The Russian Defense Ministry did not report shooting down an F-16. Some Russian outlets claimed that the Western plane could have been destroyed on the ground by an Iskander missile during a strike on an airfield in western Ukraine.<\/p>\n

In March, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the use of F-16s in the conflict will make them \u201ca legitimate target\u201d<\/em> for Russian forces, warning that the planes will be struck even at airfields inside NATO countries if they operate from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kiev\u2019s forces have lost two Soviet-era Su-27s and a Su-29, the Defense Ministry has said Russian forces have shot down three Ukrainian fighter jets over the last 24 hours, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said. Two Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft operated by Kiev were destroyed by the Russian Aerospace Forces, while Russian air defenses have…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2934,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions\/2934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}