💥 Attack

Ukrainian forces shot down a Russian Su-30 fighter jet with a surface-to-air missile (SAM) fired from a Magura naval drone over the Black Sea near Novorossiysk - the first time Ukrainian forces downed a fixed-wing aircraft using this tactic.

May 3, 2025 Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai

Likely Reported by 2 independent sources

Institute for the Study of War Kyiv Independent

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Ukrainian forces (military_unit) Magura naval drone (weapon_system) Su-30 (weapon_system) Krasnodar Krai (location) Ukrainian drones (weapon_system) Russian air defenses (weapon_system) Taman (location) Yurovka (location) Tsibanobalka (location) Anapa (location) Ukrainian naval drones (weapon_system) Andrey Kravchenko (person)

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Institute for the Study of War → Source tone: certain

Ukrainian forces used a SAM fired from a Magura naval drone to down a Russian Su-30 fighter jet over the Black Sea near Novorossiysk

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: uncertain

Four were injured in Novorossiysk, among them two children, as Russia's Krasnodar Krai was allegedly targeted in a Ukrainian drone attack overnight on May 3.

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Extracted: 2026-02-24T00:13:43.704Z

Source story: russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-3-2025