Ukrainian border guards using a MANPADS system shot down a Russian SU-25 ground attack aircraft near Avdiivka.
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Fighter from the State Border Guard Service unit shot down a Russian combat aircraft near Avdiivka using MANPADS. According to preliminary information, it was a SU-25 ground attack aircraft.
Members of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service shot down a Russian Su-25 fighter-bomber aircraft near Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast using an anti-aircraft missile from a portable complex. The plane started to smoke, lost height and disappeared over the horizon.
This would be the 321st Russian aircraft shot down in Ukraine according to General Staff estimates.
Russia lost at least a brigade (3,000-5,000 soldiers) in attempts to encircle Avdiivka
Russia has lost "thousands" of troops in the assault on Avdiivka
Russia executes soldiers who refuse to fight
An enemy combat aircraft, identified as an SU-25 attack aircraft, was shot down in the Avdiivka direction by a border guard unit's man-portable air defence system on 29 October.
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