Russian forces said on Sunday that they had shot down a Ukrainian MIG-29 fighter jet during the ongoing fighting.
The Russian Ministry of Defence said Kyiv’s forces have lost several pieces of Western-made armour, including a Bradley fighting vehicle.
“Seventeen counterattacks by the Ukrainian armed forces have been repelled. The enemy has lost more than 410 soldiers, two Leopard tanks manufactured in Germany, an infantry fighting vehicle, and three armoured personnel carriers, including an M113 made in the United States” in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the statement read.
Kyiv has reportedly lost a “105-mm L-119 cannon manufactured in Great Britain,” said the Russian Ministry of Defence.
In the DPR, Ukraine lost a total of 230 service personnel during two back-to-back counterattacks that were repelled by Moscow’s forces, the ministry added.
It further said that a large number of Soviet-era Mig 29 fighter jets have been given to Kyiv by its EU backers since the start of the war in February 2022, when Moscow launched its military operations.
Poland supplied Ukraine with several Soviet-era fighter planes in 2023, but Zalewski mentioned that until Warsaw receives US-made F-35 jets as a replacement, further deliveries are “off the table.”
However, in December, Polish Deputy Defence Minister Pawel Zalewski said Warsaw could not transfer its remaining jets to Kyiv without compromising its national security.
The US and its allies have supplied over $100 billion worth of weapons, equipment, and ammunition to Ukraine since the conflict with Russia escalated in February 2022, while insisting that this does not make them a party to the hostilities.
Meanwhile, Moscow has continuously warned of the potential for escalation while saying the weapons deliveries will not change the outcome on the battlefield.
