The Armed Forces of Ukraine announced on Wednesday that they managed to shoot down another Russian Su-24 tactical bomber near the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, the New Voice of Ukraine reports.

The 93rd brigade of the Ukrainian army claimed responsibility for the attack, and its military released a video showing the moment the plane fell to the ground, with the parachute of one of the Russian soldiers slowly sliding to the ground before catching on the plane. a tree

At the very end of the recording, several small explosions are also visible, most likely caused by the detonation of ammunition on board the aircraft. That it was indeed a Su-24 has not been independently confirmed.

Russia would be without 10 of its Su-24 aircraft during the conflict launched by President Vladimir Putin on February 24 last year, according to a balance sheet compiled by Oryx, a well-known site that tracks losses suffered by both sides of the war in Ukraine.

The cost of the Su-24 is estimated at approximately 24-25 million dollars, although estimates vary depending on the modernization carried out. It is interesting that most of the Su-24 bombers disabled during the “special forces operation” were destroyed or badly damaged on the ground as a result of bombings or sabotage by the Ukrainians.

This is a model of the plane that, according to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner’s mercenaries, he used during the alleged bombing of Ukrainian positions, in which he personally participated as a cockpit navigator.

The press service of Concordia, Prigozhin’s catering company, through which he was nicknamed “Putin’s cook”, reported a few days later that the plane of Wagner’s mercenaries had been shot down by Ukrainian forces.

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