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Vladimir Putin has suffered another major loss in his war after his £40 million Su-34 bomber was downed in an ambush in eastern Ukraine.
The Soviet twin-engine, two-seat aircraft was shot down over the Luhansk region, as confirmed my Ukrainian military spokesperson Andrii Kovalyov.
The fate of the Russian crew in the Sukhoi remains unclear.
With Russian forces stuck in a stalemate on the frontlines in Ukraine, more reports of downed aircrafts are resurfacing.
Ukrainian government adviser Anton Gerashchenko said on X: ‘In total, according to the general staff, since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has lost 332 aircrafts.
‘We thank our heroes for their excellent work.’
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