Kyiv denies Russia shot down four Ukrainian jets

Ukraine's air force denied on Wednesday that Russian forces had shot down four Ukrainian military jets in Ukraine. The Russian defence ministry said Russian forces had destroyed a Su-25 and Su-24 - both Soviet-era jets used by the Ukrainian air force - over the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine along with another Su-25 and a Mig-29, another Soviet-designed fighter aircraft, in the Mykolaiv region of southern Ukraine.

Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force, dismissed the assertion as propaganda.