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The National Guardsman has already shot down six Russian planes with the Needle

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National Guard – a thunderstorm of Russian SU-25

After three downed planes, the military was awarded the highest state award – the star of the Hero of Ukraine.

On July 17, a 19-year-old conscript of the National Guard of Ukraine hit the 6th Russian aircraft from the Igla MANPADS, the press service reports. NSU on Facebook.

“On July 16, at about ten o’clock in the evening, he managed to shoot down a cruise missile. And by the morning of the next day, he replenished his piggy bank of downed aircraft with another “dryer”! Now the guardsman already has 6 enemy SU-25 aircraft and one cruise missile of the invaders, “- reported to the National Guard.

After three downed planes, the military was awarded the highest state award – the star of the Hero of Ukraine. The name of the National Guardsman, nicknamed the Zaporizhzhya Avenger, was not disclosed.

Recall, according to the estimates of the British military, Russia has lost more than 30% of the offensive potential of ground forceswhich gives “absolute confidence” to the Ukrainian armed forces that they will win the war.

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