Russian air defenses shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet over Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Russia’s RIA news agency reported today, citing the Russian Defense Ministry.

Ukrainian authorities have not reported any loss of fighter jets in recent days.

Russia says it destroyed 47 Ukrainian drones

Russia announced today that it destroyed 47 Ukrainian drones overnight, mostly in the Rostov region on the border with Ukraine.

“Air defense systems intercepted and destroyed one drone in the Belgorod region, two in the Kursk region, three in the Volgograd region and 41 in the Rostov region,” said the message he posted. the Russian army on social media.

Kiev regularly launches drone attacks on Russian territory as Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine enters its third year.

The Rostov region (southern Russia) is an important center for planning Russian operations against Ukraine.

Its governor, Vassily Golubev, said on social media that one of those attacks hit the city of Taganrog, on the Sea of ​​Azov, near a region of Ukraine seized by Russia. He spoke of an injured rescuer, but assured that “there is no one dead”.

Social media close to the Russian military wrote that Ukraine targeted an aviation factory in Taganrog.

“In Taganrog, the target of the raid was most likely the (manufacturer’s) Beriev aircraft factory,” said a message on the Telegram account of the military-affiliated Rybar network.

At the same time, the governor of the Russian region of Kursk, further north, which borders Ukraine, said for his part that a clinic was damaged by an attack.

That official posted a video of himself outside “Kursk polyclinic 6,” with the building appearing to have been damaged.

“Luckily, everyone is alive,” he assured, adding that doctors removed the patients to a nearby hospital.