It is unknown whether the pilots of the occupying forces survived.
On Thursday, April 21, in the Izyum direction, the Armed Forces Ukraine has shot down a plane of the Russian occupiers , the 93rd separate mechanized brigade “Cold Yar” reports on Facebook.
According to the mechanized battalion, in the area of responsibility of which the enemy plane was shot down, it was hit by a Soviet portable anti-aircraft missile system “Igla”, “the statement reads.
It is noted that the plane crashed into Russian-occupied territory. It is unknown whether the pilots of the occupying forces survived.
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Earlier it was reported that since the beginning of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine , the army of the Russian Federation has lost about 21 thousand soldiers . The occupiers also lost 172 planes and 829 tanks.
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