Sichesal’s 25th Separate Airborne Brigade said its paratroopers destroyed the Sukhoi-25 fighter using Igla MANPADS, referring to the man-portable short-range air defense system. “Another enemy Su-25 is finished,” the brigade, which is an airborne formation of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces, posted on its Facebook page on Saturday, Ukrainian media reported. “We are not stopping, glory to Ukraine,” the post said, prompting messages from Facebook users praising the strike, including “honour and glory to our defenders” and “glory to our heroes, our boys!!! power and power!” A Russian Su-25 attack jet lands at an air base in southern Russia’s Krasnodar region, March 16, 2016. A Ukrainian brigade said it shot down one of the Russian jets over Donetsk on July 29. 2022. SERGEI VENYAVSKY /Getty Images The reported downed aircraft was not mentioned in Saturday’s update from the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which Newsweek contacted for comment. In its latest figures, which have not been independently verified, Ukraine’s armed forces said on Saturday that since the start of the Russian invasion, they had successfully targeted 222 aircraft. They also said 170 Russian soldiers had been killed the previous day, bringing the death toll of Vladimir Putin’s troops to 40,670, although it is much higher than Western estimates. Moscow has not updated the official tally of dead soldiers since the March 25 figure of 1,351. A translation of the Ukrainian briefing also said that Russia suffered the heaviest losses in the Donetsk region and that Ukrainian pilots along with its anti-aircraft missile forces “continue to control the airspace, forcing the enemy to refuse to approach our borders.” . It comes as Kyiv continues to press the US and its Western allies to supply them with fighter jets and training to fly them. Ukrainian forces benefit from the US-supplied M142 high-mobility artillery rocket systems, or HIMARS. The US is also helping Ukraine keep Soviet-era MiG and Sukhoi jets in the air pending a decision on equipping Kiev with Western planes, a US military official said at a Pentagon briefing on Friday. Meanwhile, the mayor of the southern city of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sienkevych, said on his Telegram channel that one person was killed and six wounded when Russian rockets hit two residential districts overnight. The city adjoins the Kherson region that Ukrainian troops are seeking to retake in a counter-offensive. In Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv, missiles from an S-300 surface-to-air system destroyed part of an educational facility early Saturday, local authorities said. Newsweek has reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry for comment.