On May 9, a Ukrainian Su-25 attack plane was shot down during an air battle in Kharkiv region.

APA's Moscow correspondent reports that Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing today.

"In the evening of May 9, a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down during an air battle near the village of Novaya Dmitrovka in Kharkiv region.

Russian air defense systems destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles at night in the Donetsk Mospino and Yunokommunarsk settlements and the city of Odessa.

Ukrainian Tochka-U missile and Smerch rocket launcher were fired at the Donetsk settlement of Khartyzsk.

"Two more missiles of the Smerch rocket launcher were fired in the Malaya Kamisheva and Izyum regions of Kharkiv region," a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Konashenkov also announced the military losses of the Ukrainian side: "In general, 163 planes, 124 helicopters, 793 unmanned aerial vehicles, 300 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2979 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 351 rocket launchers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the beginning of the special military operation." system, 1440 field artillery installations and mortars, as well as 2789 units of special military vehicles were destroyed.