Ukrainian defenders shot down a russian Su-25 attack aircraft over the Donetsk oblast on October 30. This was reported on Telegram by Oleksandr Tarnavsky, the commander of the operational-strategic group Tavriia.
"Another russian Su-25 has been destroyed. This is the sixth one on the Avdiivka direction since October 10 of this year", - he noted.
Tarnavsky mentioned that within a day, the enemy conducted 21 airstrikes on the Tavriisk direction and carried out 1086 artillery shelling attacks. There were 36 combat clashes. Simultaneously, Ukrainian missile forces and artillery units fulfilled 1387 fire tasks within the day.
The commander added that the russian Armed Forces lost 527 soldiers and four ammunition depots. Additionally, Ukrainian forces destroyed 49 pieces of military equipment, including five tanks, six armored combat vehicles, four artillery systems, one aircraft, 23 UAVs, and eight vehicles.
As reported, on October 29, Ukrainian border guards downed a russian aircraft near Avdiivka.