✈️: On the 1st October, likely around 1:15 PM local time, a Ukrainian jet reported as a MiG-29 was shot down by Russian forces over the Zaporizhzhia region.

- The jet was carrying out strikes on Russian positions during the time of the attack. According to FighterBomber, elements of the Russian 58th Army shot it down with a surface-to-air missile.
- This is one of the few instances that Ukrainian media has acknowledged a Russian missile as responsible for a jet crash. It also cannot be ruled out that the plane was actually an F-16.
- The pilot ejected from the plane but failed to survive.

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