Ukraine says it downed 3 Russian Su-34 fighter jets, possibly using a Western-supplied Patriot missile system

• Ukraine claims to have downed three Russian Su-34 fighter jets.
• Unconfirmed reports suggested Ukraine could have used a Western-donated Patriot missile system.
• Ukraine's Air Force spokesman, Yuri Ihnat, said it was  a "brilliantly planned operation."

Ukraine claims to have downed three Russian Su-34 fighter jets on the southern front on Friday.

"Today, at noon, on the southern front, we destroyed three Russian Su-34 bomber aircraft," Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, wrote on Telegram.