On 28 February 2022, footage emerged reportedly showing Su-34s overflying the Kharkiv region of Ukraine.
[88] On 1 March 2022, one Su-34, tail number
Red-31 with registration number RF-81251 was shot down near Kyiv.
[89] belonging to the 3rd Combat Regiment of the Russian Air Force.
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On 5 March another Su-34, tail number
Red 24, registration number
RF-81879 was shot down by Ukrainian forces near
Chernihiv at 11:30. Both pilots ejected. Ukrainian forces captured the pilot; the co-pilot died.
[91][92][93] Another one was lost the same day near Vyhovtsi,
Khmelnytskyi Oblast. One of the pilots died.
[94] On 6 March, a
Su-34 was shot down by Ukrainian air defenses near
Kharkiv, one of the pilots was captured.
[95] The wreck of the aircraft showed the registration number
RF-95070.
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On 14 March, images of the remains of Russian jet fighter are reported near Chernihiv, later the craft was identified as the remains of a
Su-34 Red 35 of registration number
RF-95010.
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On 25 April a Russian Su-34 was recorded in video in a flat spin and crashing into the ground in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Both pilots ejected successfully.
[99][100] The next day another
Su-34 bomber, registration number
RF-95858 - Red 43, was shot down by Ukrainian forces near Zaporizhzhia.
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On 18 July, a Su-34 was downed near Alchevsk in Luhansk region. Ukrainian media claimed it has been shot down by Russian air defense.
[102] The Dutch Aviation Society identified the aircraft as a Su-34M, a modernized variant which was only delivered to the Russian Air Force less than a month ago.
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