On January 28, the air fleet of the Russian Federation may have suffered the loss of two aircraft at once: a two-seat Su-30 multirole fighter and a two-seat Su-34 fighter-bomber. Both crews are believed to have been killed.
The first report about the loss of the Russian aircraft came from Andrii Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation under Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council. “The Russians may have lost two aircraft today – a Su-30 and a Su-34,” he wrote on his Telegram channel, without providing further details.
Earlier, Ukrainian monitoring channels reported that Russia had lost one Su-30 in the war against Ukraine. “Minus one Su-30 on the southern axis this evening! The crew did not survive,” a post on the Telegram channel monitor said. In the morning briefing of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a “+1” appeared in the “Aircraft” column, bringing the total number of Russian aircraft losses to 435.
The second aircraft was not included in the official briefing. It appears to have crashed on Russian territory. AviVector’s Twitter page reported: “Today at around 13:30 UTC, a Su-34 from the Engels-2 airbase crashed in the Kursk region due to a technical malfunction while performing a combat mission. The crew was killed.”
Recently, the SBU published statistics on its Facebook page from the “Alpha” special forces unit regarding the destruction and damage of aircraft and airfields in 2025. Over the past year, long-range drones operated by the SBU struck five military airbases. As a result, the following were destroyed:
- 11 fighters and bombers: Su-30SM, Su-34, Su-27, Su-24, MiG-31
- 3 helicopters: Mi-28, Mi-26, Mi-8
- 1 transport aircraft: An-26
In addition, ammunition and fuel depots on the airbases were destroyed along with the aircraft. Over the course of the year, the SBU’s “Alpha” special forces inflicted over $1 billion in damage on the enemy.
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Source: nv
