Border guards shot down a Russian attack aircraft near Avdeevka

The Ukrainian news and analysis website has quoted a representative of the State Border Service of Ukraine, Colonel Andriy Demchenko, as saying.

Soldiers of the State Border Guard Service unit, who are part of the Ukrainian Defence Forces deterring attacks by Russian occupation forces in the Avdiivka direction, have destroyed a Russian aircraft," the report said.

According to preliminary data, we are talking about an attack aircraft Su-25. It was hit by the calculation of MANPADS of the border unit.

An anti-aircraft missile fired by the border guards hit the aerial target. The Russian aircraft went up in smoke, began to lose altitude and disappeared over the horizon," Demchenko added.

Forreference: the Su-25 attack aircraft is designed to support ground troops over the battlefield by day and night, as well as to destroy objects with specified coordinates. The cost of one such aircraft is about $11 million.

According to the AFU General Staff as of the morning of 29 October, the Ukrainian military has destroyed 320 Russian planes, 324 helicopters and 5,399 drones in the sky during the full-scale war.

Earlier, Socialportal reported that a Russian Il-76 military transport aircraft caught fire during take-off at Gissar airport in Tajikistan.