Ukraine shoots down Putin's £40m Russian Su-34 bomber in ANOTHER huge scalp, just days after £260m spy plane shot down
UKRAINE has shot down a £40million Russian bomber another big blow for Vladimir Putin.
The attack on the Su-34 fighter jet was confirmed by Kiev's military spokesman Andrii Kovalyov, just days after Vlad's A £260million spy plane was shot down.
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Dramatic images show bright flames and thick black smoke billowing from the site shortly after the latest attack on the Luhansk region.
The fate of the crew was not clear.
The Russian war telegram channel FighterBomber disputed the Su-34's claim of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
But Moscow has lost part of its Su-34 fleet, both in air strikes and airfield hits.
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Ukrainian official Anton Gerashchenko said: “According to the General Staff, Moscow has lost a total of 332 aircraft since the start of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“We thank our Heroes for their excellent work.”
In addition, Russia launched a major attack on an “oil depot” with six Iranian Shahed-type kamikazes drones about Zmiiv in the Ukrainian region.
Photos showed a large inferno and thick smoke rising into the sky.
One Russian war source said: “An oil depot was destroyed. There is a huge fire raging there.”
There were attacks in several Ukrainian regions.
Ukraine said at least six Shahed-type drones attacked Zmiiv.
But the head of the Kharkiv regional administration, Oleg Sinegubov, said the damage was caused to “a civilian enterprise and residential buildings.”
Two men were injured, aged 52 and 61, both employees of the unknown factory.
“One broke his leg, the other was a bit shocked, he went home,” said Mayor Pavlo Holodnikov.
“Six windows in the private sector have been damaged, municipal services are working.”
He said two civilian businesses were damaged.
In a separate incident, Kharkov residents were warned to stay indoors as Russia launched attacks on the city and the region.
A terrifying explosion is seen in a residential area of Ukraine's second largest city.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov said: “An explosion in Kharkov. Be careful.”
He told residents to “stay in the shelters” until the all clear.
Vladimir Putin has repeatedly claimed that his forces do not attack residential areas.
Earlier this month, two of Putin's most crucial spy planes worth £290m were shot down Russia fears that Ukraine used a secret NATO 'miracle weapon' in the attack.
One of the Russian The dictator's £260million spy planes disappeared and a bomber worth £30million was set on fire. Ukrainian Armed Forces shot them out of the sky over the Sea of Azov.
They were shot out of the sky on one of Moscow's worst days for the air force since then The Russian invasion in 2022.
Last week, Ukraine rejected the Russian claims As propaganda, 65 prisoners of war were killed in a shot down plane.
Moscow said Ukrainian POWs were among 74 killed when a missile hit the IL-76 in the Belgorod region.
Officials in Kiev handling the prisoner exchange said Russian counterparts had given them the 65 names “with great delay.”
But they said family members were unable to identify their loved ones in photos of the crash site.
Kiev has neither confirmed nor denied that it downed the plane.
A Ukrainian missile attack also took place last week killed 24 Russian kamikaze drone operators.
The attack took place on Wednesday, but the footage has only now been released.
Russian sources have since expressed anger at the “negligence” that allowed this Kiev to find out about the meeting at the Vostochny military training ground near Ilovaisk in the occupied Donetsk region.
Russia has suffered from one before night of hell with Ukrainian kamikaze drone attacks on a large rocket factory and gas factory.
Two massive explosions broke out at the nearby strategically important Novatek factory St. Petersburgcausing a raging inferno.
a Ukrainian An official also claimed that there had been a hit on the Shcheglovsky Val defense enterprise in Tula.
It produces the Pantsir-S and Pantsir-S1 air defense missile systems used to defend key locations including Vladimir Putin's palaces.
But despite the Ukrainian attacks, the Russian ambassador to Britain warned about this “No one has ever been able to beat Russia.”.
In a disturbing warning to the West, Putin's top friend and security chief Dmitry Medvedev vowed that Russia will do everything in its power to ensure its enemies “vanish from the face of the earth forever.”
This chilling statement comes at a time when global tensions threaten to boil over – and that includes citizens around the world preparing for the prospect of a third world war.
Meanwhile, Putin will join the Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko on a trip to Antarctica amid tensions with the West.
The tyrant agreed to the icy escape check Russian Polar travelers open a new wintering complex at the Vostok station during a video call Europas longest-serving president.
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