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us media: a ukrainian mig-29 fighter jet made an emergency landing

according to the u.s. defense blog website on september 7, the ukrainian military released footage of a mig-29 fighter making an emergency landing in dnipropetrovsk oblast this spring.

screenshot of the report on the "defense blog" website

the report quoted local sources as saying that the pilot left the fighter safely and was not injured. the specific condition of the fighter is still unclear. there are reports that the aircraft was damaged after landing and has been transferred to another place, where it may be repaired.

ukraine faces a severe shortage of combat aircraft in its ongoing battle with russia, with ukrainian pilots relying on limited aircraft to counter russian missile and drone attacks while also carrying out precision strikes on russian equipment and assembly points.

ukrainian mig-29 fighter jet is loading ammunition

in addition, on the social media platform x, some users also posted other perspectives of the emergency landing. the poster said that this was a mig-29mu1 fighter that landed in a field and was then disassembled for transportation.

during the russian-ukrainian conflict, ukraine modified its mig-29 fighters to enable them to carry advanced western weapon systems. the modified mig-29 can carry weapons such as agm-88 anti-radiation missiles, extended-range joint direct attack munitions (jdam-er), gbu-39/b small diameter bombs, and aasm-250 "hammer" precision-guided bombs provided by france.