Yesterday, Yury Ignat, a representative of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that Russia had deployed 430 combat aircraft and 360 helicopters to the borders with Ukraine.. Today, during a telethon, he explained that this is not about additional forces, but about the total number of aircraft that the occupiers concentrated there even before the start of a full-scale invasion..

" Despite the fact that more than 200 aircraft and more than 200 helicopters have already been destroyed, Russia is simply replenishing those aviation stocks that were destroyed by our air defense defenders.. And thus, it has slightly increased precisely the helicopter units that are located around the Ukrainian borders and now it has increased to 360. These are 155 attack helicopters, and the rest are military transport ones,"

According to him, today the Russian Federation has about 4 thousand more aircraft..

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Recall, the speaker of the Air Force Command, Yuriy Ignat, said that on the Independence Day of Ukraine, Russia took its planes into the air more than 200 times, which is why so many air alerts were sounded.. At the same time, during August 24, the occupying forces carried out eight missile strikes on our territory..