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At least seven civilians, including a child, were injured in the explosion of a FAB-500 bomb dropped by the Russian Air Force on its own administrative center of Belgorod on May 4, the Astra Telegram channel wrote on May 6.

The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed two bases of Al-Tanf militants sheltering in the remote mountainous areas of Syrias Homs province, Yury Popov, the deputy head of the Russian Defense Ministrys Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria, reported on Saturday.

Another of Russia’s prized A-50 Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, call sign Bayan (Accordion), was shot down by Ukrainian Air Force over the Sea of Azov some 170 km from the front line at 7:15 p.m. EET on Feb. 23.

Russia's air force has largely been kept out of Ukraine's airspace. But Ukraine is running out of air defense missiles, which could allow it in.

Yulia Navalnaya told a Western gathering of leaders, diplomats, and other officials in Munich on Friday that Putin and his allies would bear responsibility.

Twelve Russian Shahed kamikaze drones and one Kh-59 guided missile were shot down by Ukrainian air defenses overnight, the Air Force reported on Telegram on Feb. 18.

The next International Aviation and Space Salon (MAKS) at Russias Zhukovsky International Airport, which was rescheduled from 2023 to a later period, is preliminary scheduled for July 23-28, 2024, several sources close to the salon have told Sputnik.

Ukraine said it took out two key Russian command aircraft. Some experts say it was likely the result of a daring Patriot missile attack.

The military aviation of the Russian aerospace forces have conducted air patrols along the separation zone between armed forces of Israel and Syria, Vadim Kulit, the deputy head of the Russian Defense Ministrys Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria, said on Thursday.

NATO air forces were scrambled more than 300 times in response to Russian military aircraft in 2023, the treaty organisation said on Friday. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February last year, NATO substantially reinforced its eastern flank air defences with more fighter jets, surveillance flights and ground-based air defences.