VIDEO Zelensky announces that Ukrainian forces shot down a Russian bomber over Donetsk on Saturday

Ukrainian forces shot down a Russian Su-25 bomber over the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message on Saturday evening, according to Reuters.

“It is important to be very focused these days,” Zelenskiy says in his message, also sending “special praise to the fighters of the 110th Mechanized Brigade for downing another Russian Su-25 bomber over the Donetsk region today.”

Zelenski did not provide any other details about this incident, Reuters reports.

Donetsk is one of four Ukrainian regions that Moscow says it has annexed.

On Friday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed that Moscow took control of 547 square kilometers of annexed territories this year.

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