The Russian Defence Ministry reported that the country's air defences downed the Ukrainian Air Force Su-25 attack jet (NATO reporting name: Frogfoot) in the Kherson region of Ukraine as part of the special military operation there. The ministry elaborated that the jet was shot near the town of Chervony Yar.
Additionally, two Ukrainian drones and 12 rockets launched from a Smerch MLRS battery were intercepted near the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) town of Kamenki, the ministry said.
The Defence Ministry further reported that strikes by the Russian Air Force destroyed 17 military targets in Ukraine, including two command-and-control centres and five ammunition and fuel depots. The ministry also said that some 200 militants from nationalist battalions and 23 armoured vehicles of the Ukrainian forces had been destroyed over the course of the day.
Russian rocket forces, in turn, destroyed an additional 12 command centres and two depots of Ukrainian artillery munitions, the Defence Ministry said.
Russia launched the special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February on the orders of President Vladimir Putin. He argued that Russia was left with no choice after the DPR and LPR requested its assistance after eight years of shelling by Ukrainian forces. Putin called the events that had been taking place in Donbass a "genocide" and a tragedy for the people living there.