Russia lost 39 planes and 40 helicopters in nine days of war, claims Ukraine

As Russia-Ukraine war entered its 10th day, Ukrainian Air Force Command declared that y managed to destroy more of Russia's military equipment. As per a statement by Defence Ministry, at least three Russian Su-25 military aircraft and three more helicopters of Russian occupation forces were shot down on Friday. 

"Yesterday, Russian invers lost three players - so-called Su-25 attack aircraft. Two of m were shot down in Chernihiv region and one near Volnovakha in Donetsk region. In dition, three helicopters of Russian occupation forces went on ir last flight last night."

"Thus, during nine days of war, Ukrainian air defense destroyed at least 39 Russian planes and 40 helicopters!" statement re. 

It furr stated that prior to invasion of Ukraine, Russian military h concentrated about 700 units of aircraft - 450 planes and more than 250 helicopters - around its borders. 

Sukhoi-34 is an vanced twin-engine, twin-seat, all-wear supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber/strike aircraft which was first inducted into Russian Air Force in 2014. Though Russia denied using Su-34 in war against Ukraine, it was first seen on March 28 near border of Kharkiv.

Subsequently, several media outlets captured Russian Air Force of using vanced fighter jet in war. Earlier on Thursday, Ukrainian military claimed to have shot down a Su-30 fighter over Irpin near Kyiv.

NATO denies policing No-fly Zone over Ukraine

Earlier today, while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for establishment of a no-fly zone over Ukrainian territory, NATO declined request.

Zelenskyy warned that this decision of NATO might provoke widespre war in Europe with nuclear-armed Russia. "You will not be able to pay us off with litres of fuel for litres of our blood, shed for our common Europe,” he said. 

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said at a presser, that banning foreign planes over Ukraine’s airspace would imply NATO air support shooting down Russian missiles and warplanes, an act that can furr flare  conflict. “We are not part of this conflict,” he said. And hering to such an appeal, he went on, would result in a “full-fledged war in Europe involving many more countries”

On February 24, Russian troops started a military operation against Ukraine, resulting in heavy shelling and killing of more than 2,000 Ukrainian civilians.

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