Nearly 900 days into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the skies over the battlefield remain fiercely contested, prolonging the conflict. The Ukrainian Air Force, initially reliant on an antiquated fleet of Soviet-era fighter jets,

Ukraine has downed a second Russian Su-25 ground attack aircraft in five days, according to Kyiv's military. Ukraine's Khortytsia group of forces said Tuesday it shot down the fighter jet near Pokrovsk in the eastern Donetsk region as the enemy aircraft was "trying to fire at the positions of units of the Defense Forces.

The Russians admit that Western missiles are destroying their planes, according to the Defence Romania portal. For this reason, Moscow plans to prepare special hangars to protect the equipment remaining in their arsenal there.