Russia does not have air superiority in Ukraine due to poor training and the loss of experienced military personnel, and the situation is unlikely to change in the coming months, the British Ministry of Defense said in its latest assessment of the situation on the front.

Ka-52 “Alligator” attack helicopters.Photo: Kyrill Norton / Sputnik / Profimedia Images

“Russia’s losses probably far exceed its ability to produce new aircraft,” the British say, also talking about the long time it takes to train competent pilots.

According to them, the situation is “unlikely” to change in the coming months.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhnyi, said that Russia lost twice as many aircraft in Ukraine than during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

According to the Ukrainian military, by November 7, Russian forces had lost 277 aircraft in the war against Ukraine.

On October 23, a Russian military plane crashed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, six days after a Su-34 fighter jet crashed into a residential building in the southern city of Yeisk, near Ukraine, killing at least 15 people. died