Russia Says It Destroys 5 Ukrainian SU-27 Jet Fighters as Moscow Aims at F-16 Arrivals

Polish Air Force F-16 fighter jets fly in formation during the Clear Sky 2018 multinational military drills at Starokostiantyniv Air Base in Khmelnytskyi Region, Ukraine, on Oct. 12, 2018. Gleb Garanich/Reuters

MOSCOW—Russia claimed on Tuesday it had destroyed five Ukrainian SU-27 fighter jets with Iskander-M missiles and damaged two more at the Myrhorod airfield in Ukraine’s central Poltava region.

Ukraine claimed there had been a strike at the airfield but that Russia was exaggerating the damage caused. Ukraine did not detail exactly what had been damaged.