 Russia hit own Su-35 jet over Crimea. Russian air defences struck one of Moscow's most advanced fighter jets over annexed Crimea, according to a local report. Moscow's S-400 air defense system fired at the Russian Su-35 jet near Krasno-Perekopsk, a town in the northern part of the Black Sea peninsula, the Telegram channel Crimean Wind reported citing an unnamed source. Now the plane is losing altitude over the Sea of Azov, channel said in one post, before adding in another that a damaged Su-35 landed at a military airfield in the city of Militopol, in Ukraine's southern Zaporizia region. This is not the first time reports have emerged of Russia downing its own Su-35 jets. According to Newsweek, in October 2023, the British Defense Ministry said in an intelligence update on the war in Ukraine that Russian air defense forces highly likely shot down one of their own Su-35 jets. In a friendly fire incident on September 28, 2023, over Tokmak, an occupied city near the front lines in the Zaporizia region. Although Russia has lost around 90 fixed-wing aircraft since the start of the invasion, this is probably only the fifth loss of Su-35s, Russia's most advanced combat jet in widespread service, the Defense Ministry said in that update.