Russia claims to have shot down MiG-29 fighters, killing 100 Ukrainian soldiers

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 The Russian Defense Ministry announced that its military forces shot down a MiG-29 fighter jet and killed 100 soldiers during the military operation in Ukraine.

"The fighter jet of the Russian air force shot down a MiG-29 near the residential area of ​​Chapayevka in Zaporizhia province," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on October 8.


Zaporizhia is one of four regions in Ukraine that have held a referendum to join Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 5 signed a decree approving the annexation of the Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions to Russia.


According to Konashenkov, "two reinforced enemy battalions have attempted to attack the Pershotravnevoye and Yagodnoye regions in the Kharkov Oblast", Ukraine.


A spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry announced that the country's armed forces successfully repelled the attacks of Ukraine on October 8.


"More than 100 Ukrainian soldiers, 2 tanks, 5 infantry fighting vehicles and 2 cars have been removed from the fighting ring," Konashenkov said.


According to the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, after large-scale attacks near Petropavloka in Kharkov province, more than 110 soldiers of the 14th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the 19th Battalion of the Self-Defense Forces territory has been removed.


Konashenkov added that Russian aircraft, missile and artillery units hit more than 220 targets of the Ukrainian armed forces in the past 24 hours.


"Tactical aircraft, along with missiles and artillery, hit the firing positions of 54 artillery units, as well as troops and military equipment in 174 areas," Konashenkov confirmed.


According to the Russian Defense Ministry, a total of 316 military aircraft, 158 helicopters, 2,176 drones, 379 surface-to-air missile systems, 5,494 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 866 systems multiple rocket launchers, 3,457 field artillery and mortars, and 6,395 Ukrainian special military vehicles have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation.


Ukraine's military has recently begun a strong counterattack in both the east and the south, targeting the regions that have recently voted to annex Russia. Before Ukraine's strong counterattack, Russia was forced to withdraw its troops from some important areas, even where a referendum on annexation was held.


Rodion Miroshnik, representative of the separatist region of Lugansk in Moscow, on October 8 said that Ukraine is deploying about 40,000 troops to Lugansk.


In the South, Vladimir Rogov, an official of the military-civilian government of Zaporizhia province appointed by Russia, said on October 6 that Ukraine is deploying the largest number of troops and equipment here since the beginning of the war. This move is said to be a sign that Ukraine is about to launch a major counterattack on Zaporizhia.


In Kherson, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that since the beginning of October, the country's armed forces have regained more than 500 square kilometers of territory.


On the same day, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Minister Sergei Shoigu had appointed General Sergey Surovikin as the new commander of the special military operation in Ukraine.

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