Ukraine claimed to have shot down a Russian fighter jet on Wednesday as Kyiv’s forces escalated the biggest foreign incursion suffered by Russia since the Second World War.
Kyiv’s military said its forces destroyed the Russian Su-34 aircraft overnight in the Kursk region while carrying out a combat mission.The unverified claim came as the governor of a second Russian border region declared a state of emergency.The declaration by Belgorod’s governor Vyacheslav Gladkov follows Kyiv’s surprise cross-border attack in the neighbouring Kursk region last week, leading to mass evacuations and a state of emergency being declared there by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
