Dramatic footage appears to show a Ukrainian missile taking out a prized Russian jet

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Dramatic footage appears to show a Ukrainian missile taking out a prized Russian jet

Dramatic footage shared by Ukraine shows what it says is a missile taking out a Russian jet.

The jet was trying to target ground forces in Donetsk, a Ukrainian operational group said.

This is the second Su-25 downed by one brigade in Donetsk in the last month, it claimed.

Ukraine shared dramatic footage that it claims shows the downing of a Russian Su-25 military jet.

Ukraine’s 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade posted the footage

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on Tuesday. The video shows two aircraft racing across the sky, with one of them marked up in a circle.

A shot is then fired from ground level and quickly hits the rear aircraft, which explodes and falls to the ground.

The Khortytsia operational group — under whose umbrella the 110th fights —

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that the brigade’s antiaircraft guns made the shot as the two planes were trying to take aim at Ukrainian positions in the eastern Donetsk region.

It said it was the second Su-25 taken down by the 110th in Donetsk in the space of just a month.

Business Insider was unable to independently verify the footage, and the Russian military does not typically comment on individual losses.

Known by the NATO reporting name of “Frogfoot,” the Su-25 originated as a heavy *******-era jet designed to provide close air support for ground forces.

They are no longer being produced, although upgrades are possible on existing aircraft.

Russia had 134 Su-25s at the start of 2022,

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Open-source project Oryx, which tracks Russian equipment losses,

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it has documented the destruction of, or damage to, 33 Su-25s since the launch of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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