Ukraine: Valuable Russian planes shot down

Updated 11.16 | Published 11.08

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Ukraine’s air force says it shot down two Russian aircraft – a combat command plane and a signal reconnaissance plane, writes the country’s army chief Valery Zaluzhny on Telegram.

One of the aircraft was an A-50 and the other an Il-22, according to Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform.

The shooting must have taken place over Lake Azov late on Sunday.

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