"Rash rarely": Ukraine has destroyed the six of the best aircraft in the Russian Federation in three days - the media
The Armed Forces are asking Western partners to increase the supply of ammunition, although six Russian bombard fighter jets for the last three days have been shot down. "Russian planes continue to fall!", - wrote the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on Monday, February 19. Four Su-34 fighters and two SU-35 were reported. Su-34-the best supersonic assault aircraft of the Russian Air Force.
Recently, they mostly completed the tasks of direct support from the air - they dumped high -precision corrected bombs from a distance of about 40 km. SUMP SU-35-fighters accompanying Su-34. The first three sugges were shot down on Saturday, when the planes flew 100 km east of Avdiivka, apparently, preparing for the bombing of the Kabams of Ukrainian troops that retreated from the destroyed city.
The Air Force command said that the fourth aircraft was knocked down on Sunday and two more on Monday, the last - above the Azov Sea. It is possible that all six were knocked down by Ukrainian Patriot Pac-2 batteries, three of which received Ukraine from the United States and Germany. The Ukrainian Air Force housed one Patriot battery in Kiev and one in the south and east. Starting installations installed on trucks can move and keep the radars.
According to Oryx, in two years of heavy battles of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation lost 25 of their 150 Su-34 and six of 120 SU-35. But recently, the loss of aircraft has increased: six aircraft in three days. Since February 2022, the Russian Air Force lost 95 aircraft. On average four a month. According to the London Royal Joint Institute of Defense Research (Rusi), a shortage of experienced crews may be even more loss for the Russian Federation.
For air operations of the Russian Federation there is "a limited number of pilots with experience in key tasks", "Rusi Jack Wotling and Nick Reynolds notes. But it seems unlikely that the Ukrainian Air Force will continue to knock down Russian planes for two a day. The number of Patriot missiles in Ukraine has fallen to a critical level, Anton Gerashchenko, an exader of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, said recently.