Ukraine downs Russian fighter jet with seaborne drone

The Ukrainian army mentioned it destroyed a Russian Su-30 fighter jet utilizing a missile fired from a seaborne drone.

Saying this on Saturday, Ukraine’s army intelligence company mentioned it was the world’s first downing of a fight airplane by a maritime drone.

In a press release posted on social media, it mentioned the fighter jet was shot down by a army intelligence unit referred to as Group 13 on Friday over waters close to Novorossiisk, a serious Russian port metropolis on the Black Sea.

Outmanned and outgunned by its bigger, wealthier Russian adversary, Ukraine has turned to drone warfare within the air and at sea as a option to struggle again all through greater than three years of full-scale battle.

Will probably be recalled that Ukraine’s seaborne drones, that are less expensive and smaller than typical ships, have wrought havoc on Russia’s Black Sea fleet.

The war-torn nation has beforehand mentioned it shot down a Russian army helicopter in December 2024 utilizing a missile fired from the identical sort of seaborne drone.

Though the Russian Defence Ministry didn’t touch upon the Ukrainian declare, however an authoritative Russian blogger believed to be near the ministry mentioned the jet had been shot down.

“Yesterday in direction of night, an Su-30 naval aviation fighter jet was shot down by the Ukrainian facet 50 kilometres west of Novorossiisk. This was finished from an uncrewed boat with an R-73 SAM (surface-to-air missile),” the blogger, who goes by the title Rybar, wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

In the meantime, the mayor of Novorossiisk had declared a state of emergency on Saturday after native authorities mentioned a Ukrainian drone assault had broken a grain terminal and a number of other residential buildings, injuring 5 individuals.