Su-24MR and Su-24M aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force. Archival photoMOSCOW, September 26 Over the past day, Russian fighter jets shot down a Ukrainian Su-24 bomber in the sky over the DPR over the past day, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday. Donetsk People's Republic shot down a Su-24 of the air forces of Ukraine,» the report says. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. The ultimate goal of the operation, according to the supreme commander, is «the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that would guarantee the security of Russia itself.» liquidation of the qualified staff of the Ukrainian Air Force
