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2024 Korochansky Ilyushin Il-76 crash. / 50.89361°N 37.34139°E / 50.89361; 37.34139. On 24 January 2024, at around 11:15 MSK, [3] a Russian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane crashed near the Ukrainian border in Russia's Korochansky district in Belgorod Oblast, killing everyone on board. Russia stated that the plane was ...
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.
– 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.
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 ...
On Friday, Zelenskiy said the country's forces shot down three Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber aircraft on the southern front, hailing it as a success in the 22-month-old conflict.
The Ukrainian air force shot down a Russian early warning and control plane that can spot targets up to 650 kilometers (400 miles) away and a key command center aircraft that relays information to ...
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 ...