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air defenses. The following night, Russia
launched 185 kamikaze drones, and on Tuesday,
February 25, another 213 drones and seven
cruise missiles.
Ukraine has made progress in countering
Russian guided bombs, which had been causing
significant problems at the front. Ukrainian
electronic warfare measures have successfully
started disrupting their guidance systems.
Air Losses
During the reporting period, each side
suffered one operational aircraft loss.
On Sunday, February 2, Ukraine lost a Su-27
fighter jet. According to The Military Watch,
it was a Su-27P1M with tail number "Blue
59" from the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade.
The aircraft was returning from a combat
mission near Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region
when it was reportedly hit by an R-37M missile
from a Russian Su-30SM2 fighter. The Ukrainian
pilot, Captain Ivan Bolotov, was killed.
On Saturday, February 8, the Russian Air
Force lost a Su-25 attack aircraft. It was shot
down near Zaitseve in the Bakhmut district
of the Donetsk region by a portable missile
fired by Ukrainian soldiers from the 28th
Independent Mechanized Brigade. The strike
and the aircraft's crash were captured on video.
The Russian pilot managed to eject.
A Russian Mi-8 rescue helicopter was
dispatched to retrieve the downed pilot. It was
attacked by several FPV drones but managed
to escape.
There was also an unrelated loss of
a Russian civilian aircraft. A Tecnam P2002JF
Sierra light sports aircraft, registered as
RA-01808 and belonging to Aero Region
Training, crashed near Myachkovo Airport in the
Moscow region on Thursday, February 6. The
crash and subsequent fire killed both people
on board, one of whom was Vitaly Kiyashko,
a retired Russian Air Force major and former
Su-25 attack pilot.
Captain Ivan Bolotov was reportedly killed in a Su-27P1M fighter jet with fuselage number "Blue 59."
The downing of a Russian Su-25 on February 8 was captured on video.
A rescue Mi-8
helicopter flew on
February 8 to pick up
the downed Su-25 pilot.
A parachute is visible
in a tree to the left of
the helicopter.
The Mi-8 became
a target for FPV
drone attacks but
managed to escape.
The Tecnam P2002JF Sierra crash resulted in the death of a retired Russian Air Force Major Vitaly Kiyashko.
On February 8, a civilian Tecnam P2002JF Sierra aircraft crashed in the Moscow region.
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