Kyiv accused Russia of a missile strike

Continuation - the Russian Federation denied its involvement in the shelling of the Ukrainian aircraft →

On July 16, the Russian fighter struck a missile attack on the Su-25 Air Force attack aircraft, which performed a task in Ukrainian territory. This was reported on Twitter of the Council for National Security and Defense of Ukraine (National Security and Defense Council)

The UNN publication also cites a statement by the SNBU speaker Andrei Lysenko.

“The fighter-fighter of the RF Armed Forces from the territory of Russia struck a missile blow to the Su-25 aircraft, which performed a task over the territory of Ukraine. Our plane was shot down. The pilot managed to catapult, he was evacuated to a safe place, he was not injured, ”said Lysenko.

Also on the night of July 17, several videos appeared on the Web, indicating the use of Grad installations near the Russian-Ukrainian border. Eyewitnesses who shot the video claim that the recording was made in the village of Gukovo in the Rostov region, and shooting is carried out in Ukrainian territory. Official comments on this subject did not follow from the Russian or the Ukrainian side.

In addition, on July 16, the Pentagon announced an increase in the number of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine. According to the American military department, about 12 thousand Russian military are concentrated on the border. Washington also suggested that Moscow was transporting military equipment across the border to support pro -Russian separatists.

On July 15, local media reported on the death of two contractors of the Russian Ministry of Defense in the Tarasovsky district of the Rostov region. A day later, a message about their death appeared on the website of the Investigative Committee, but was canceled half an hour after the release. According to journalists, the bodies of the dead paratroopers were delivered to Rostov-on-Don, to the morgue of the District Military Hospital Number 1620, which is known that, as the New Gazeta wrote, the bodies of Russian volunteers who died in Ukraine were transported at the end of May 2014.

On July 14, a press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow is not considering the possibility of applying spot strikes in Ukraine in response to shelling of its territory. Earlier, the media reported that this option is considered.

On the morning of July 13, at least two high -explosive shells exploded in the residential quarters of the border Russian city of Donetsk, as a result of which a man died and another woman was seriously injured.