💥 Attack

Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners from a mechanized brigade named after General-Corporal Marko Bezruchko shot down another Russian Su-25 attack aircraft in the Donetsk sector.

Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast
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Kyiv Post Institute for the Study of War Kyiv Independent Ukrinform

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Kyiv Post → Source tone: certain

This is the second Su-25 the anti-aircraft gunners have shot down this week.

Russian forces conducted offensive operations in the Siversk direction.

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

Russia's recent attacks against Ukraine's Kherson, Donetsk, and Kharkiv oblasts killed one person and wounded another 19

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

Russian troops launched 10 attacks against Donetsk Oblast settlements on May 25, destroying or damaging over 10 houses and an apartment building

Ukrinform → Source tone: likely

Soldiers from the HUR Artan special purpose unit used an anti-tank missile system to destroy a combat vehicle of a Russian airborne assault force with personnel who were attempting to break through to Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region

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Extracted: 2026-02-23T22:49:00.004Z

Source story: 33244