The Ukrainians shot down a Russian fighter jet

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In his short video message on Saturday evening, the Ukrainian president gave special praise to the fighters of the 110th Independent Mechanized Brigade, as according to him, another Russian Su-25 was shot down in the Donetsk region today.

It is important to be very focused these days – he underlined.

Zelensky did not provide further details about the incident, which could not immediately verify.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyi also said that Russia launched eight different types of missiles and nearly 70 guided aerial bombs against settlements and frontline positions during the day, after the Ukrainian Air Force shot down 13 Shahed drones that targeted the Kharkiv and Dnipro areas during the night.

According to Zelensky, Moscow does not want peace. “Russia can only be forced to leave Ukraine alone,” he said in his evening video speech. The world peace summit to be held in Switzerland in June – without Russia – “must succeed”, he declared.

Donetsk is one of the four Ukrainian regions that Moscow has annexed by its own admission, the news agency reminds. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday that Moscow had taken control of 547 square kilometers (211 square miles) of annexed territory this year.

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