During the full-scale war, the Air Force of Ukraine conducted dozens of successful operations and destroyed 1,905 missiles, 4,844 attack drones, 340 aircraft and 325 helicopters in cooperation with the Defense Forces.
Commander Mykola Oleschuk published statistics on the Air Forceʼs work.
"Fixing the statistics of our "military routine" is not easy, because it is updated almost every hour. It is being updated with Russian A-50s and dry planes, Iranian Shaheds and invincible missiles, enemy control posts, cruisers, submarines and entire fleet headquarters," he wrote.
Among the downed missiles were 43 ballistic and 25 aeroballistic ones, including Kh-47M2 "Kinzhal". Ukrainian defenders of the sky also destroyed 7,660 operational-tactical drones.
Ukrainian pilots have already made more than 18,800 sorties, of which 7,800 — for fire damage, 8,900 — for aviation fighter cover.
- In the evening of February 23, the Air Force shot down the second A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft. Currently, this is the third loss of an A-50. Earlier, such an aircraft was disabled by Belarusian partisans at the Machulyshchi air base in February 2023, and on January 14, 2024, the Air Force shot down the A-50 and Il-22 aircraft.