A Russian Su-24MR military aircraft penetrated 6. 5 km into Polish airspace over the Gulf of Gdansk. The incident lasted 72 seconds and was caused by a navigation system malfunction.
At the Saki airfield in occupied Crimea, Russians are building protective structures for aircraft. The ATES movement provided the Ukrainian Defense Forces with information on the deployment of equipment and personnel at the facility.
A rare IL-76PP jamming aircraft is being disposed of at a former training airfield in Irkutsk. The unique aircraft, which was supposed to counteract Patriot systems, was unable to perform its functions due to technical problems.
Two Dutch F-35 fighter jets intercepted three Russian planes over the Baltic Sea. Among those intercepted were an An-72 transport aircraft, a su-24MR reconnaissance aircraft and an IL-20.
The Air Force was, in fact, the first to take the brunt of the enemy attack, as enemy aircraft tried to establish their dominance in the Ukrainian sky at any cost. Since the beginning of the war, 363 enemy airplanes, 326 helicopters, 13057 operational and tactical UAVs, and 2410 cruise missiles have been destroyed in the skies over Ukraine.