RUSSIA INVADE UKRAINE 2.24.22.| DAY 33: Ukraine’s military said its air defenses shot down a Russian Su-34 fighter jet near Kharkiv.

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• Ukraine’s military said its air defenses shot down a Russian Su-34 fighter jet near Kharkiv.
• It published a video showing a fireball plummeting from the sky on Sunday.
• The Su-34, Russia’s newest fighter jet, which cost $36 million each, has underperformed in the war.

Ukraine published footage, as well as audio, that it said showed its military shooting down a Sukhoi-34 fighter jet.

Ukraine’s General Staff of the Armed Forces posted a video on Facebook showing a large burning object plummeting from the sky near the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sunday.

“Anti-aircraft missile forces of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down another Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber in Kharkiv region,” it said in a note describing the video.

The Su-34, which Russian state media said costs $36 million per unit, is Russia’s newest fighter jet, but it has fallen far short of its promise during the Ukraine conflict.

In the Facebook post, the general staff also posted an audio recording of what it said was intercepted Russian military communications.

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“Who did they hit? Who did they hit?” a Russian speaker can be heard asking. The voice asks several times for a response from “10th,” perhaps a military call sign.

Another Russian speaker is heard saying: “We’re leaving. We’re leaving”

“It’s on fire. It’s on fire, totally on fire,” the voice later says.

Ukrainian authorities say its armed forces have shot down a number of Su-34s, including on March 27.

Insider could not immediately find corroborating evidence of a Su-34 being shot down near Kharkiv. The open-court Ukraine Weapons Tracker Twitter account posted an image on Sunday of a different type of Sukhoi jet shot down in the Kharkiv region.

Kharkiv has been one of the hardest-hit cities in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is still partially surrounded by Russian forces.

Russia has withdrawn from other parts of Ukraine in recent days, particularly in the suburbs around the capital of Kyiv. Intelligence officials and the Ukrainian government say they expect Russia to change its approach by focusing its attacks on the east part of the country in the Donbass region.

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There is mounting evidence suggesting that Russian troops committed mass killings in areas that were under their control, including the killing of 300 civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha.

On Monday, President Joe Biden called for a war-crimes trial against President Vladimir Putin over the events in Bucha.

“He is a war criminal,” Biden said of Putin, “but we have to gather the information.”

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