The 25th Separate Sichesal Airborne Brigade said it destroyed the fighter jet on Friday.
's soldiers to 40,670, although this is much higher than western estimates. Moscow has not updated its official tally of dead servicemen since its March 25 figure of 1,351.
A translation of Ukraine's update also said that Russia had suffered its biggest losses in the Donetsk region and that Ukrainian pilots along with its anti-aircraft missile forces"continue to control the airspace, forcing the enemy to refuse to approach our borders." It comes as Kyiv continues to push for the U.S. and its Western allies to supply it with combat jets and the training to fly them. Ukraine's forces are benefitting from U.S-supplied M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, orThe U.S.
In Ukraine's second city of Kharkiv, rockets from an S-300 surface-to-air system destroyed part of an educational facility early Saturday, according to