On September 19, at around 8:00 in the morning, an anti-aircraft missile unit of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian occupation forces in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine's Air Force command reported.
The Sukhoy Su-25 is a Soviet-designed ground attack aircraft widely used by both Russia and Ukraine.
According to Ukraine's official statistics, Russia lost 251 aircraft and 217 helicopters in 207 days of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine which started on 24 February 2022.
