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In its daily briefing on October 20, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported that Russian forces had shot down seven Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jets during the battles on Ukrainian frontlines.
The Russian military did not reveal the areas of interception of Ukrainian aircraft by the Russian air defence forces, but the Ministry clarified that in total, Russian air defense and aviation shot down 12 aircraft over the past week. They included:
- 10 MiG-29 fighters;
- two Su-25 attack aircraft;
- two Mi-8 helicopters.
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In addition, 314 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed during the week.
On October 19, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on the downing of a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter near the village of Troitskoye in the DPR, a Su-25 wasa shot down near the city of Dnipro and a Mi-8 helicopter was intercepted in the Kharkiv region. The day before, a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force wa shot down with barrage ammunition near the village of Umanskoye in the DPR.
