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Western military analysts also told BBC News Russian that video taken of the crash indicated that the aircraft was shot down. France Info reported that according to a French military source, the aircraft was hit by a US-made Patriot air defence battery operated by the Ukrainian army.
– 3 July 1993: Georgian forces shot down a Russia Su-25 over Suchumi. – 4 July 1993: Georgian forces shot down two Russian aircraft one Yak-52 reconnaissance aircraft and a Mi-8T during the Siege of Tkvarcheli. – 4 July 1993: Russian and Abkhazian forces shot down a Georgian Su-25 with a SA-14 fire over Nizhnaya Eshera.
An unidentified Ukrainian jetfighter was shot down by Russian aircraft over Zhytomyr Oblast. The pilot ejected and survived. 6 March 3 Su-27 Russian attack on Kanatovo Reserve Air Base left three SU-27s damaged. 6 March An-26 An An-26 cargo plane, codename Blue-57, was destroyed at Vinnytsia Air Base after a Russian missile attack.
Cold War. During the Cold War many nations including the Soviet Union and the United States were fiercely protective of their airspaces. Aircraft which entered an opposing nation's airspace were often shot down in air-to-air combat. The incidents produced a heightened sense of paranoia on both sides that resulted in the downing of civilian craft.
0. On 23 August 2023, an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet with ten people crashed near Kuzhenkino in Tver Oblast, approximately 100 kilometres (60 mi) north of its departure point in Moscow. Among the victims were Yevgeny Prigozhin, Dmitry Utkin and Valery Chekalov, the key figures of the Wagner Group, a Russian state -funded private military ...
1960 RB-47 shootdown incident. On 1 July 1960, a United States RB-47H reconnaissance plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing signals intelligence in the Barents Sea, near the Kola Peninsula, off the Arctic coast of the Soviet Union. Four of the six crew members died. [1] The shootdown occurred exactly two months ...
Ukraine says it shot down a Russian spy plane and airborne command center over the Azov Sea, a significant blow to Vladimir Putin's military. Ukraine says it shot down 2 Russian command planes, a ...
Never mind the seven Russian military aircraft reportedly shot down and 13 Russian air force (VKS) pilots killed by Wagner anti-aircraft fire, as reported by pro-Russian military sources ...