Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners successfully downed a Russian Su-24M (NATO reporting name "Fencer-D") over the Black Sea on Tuesday.

Ukraine’s land counter-offensive this year has made only slow progress. Crimea and much of the south and east of the nation remain in Russian hands. But at sea, the story is hugely more positive: the once powerful Russian Black Sea Fleet has been essentially driven out of the western Black Sea and the port of Odesa has been opened up to international trade,

Known as callsign13, he fulfilled a life goal to sink a Russian warship when two were blasted in the waters near Choronomorske, in Crimea, on November 10.

Vladimir Putin’s supersonic warplane has been destroyed while flying over the Black Sea. A twin-engine warplane was preparing to strike Odesa when it was obliterated by Ukrainian air defences near Snake Island.