MOSCOW, October 25. /TASS/. Su-25SM attack aircraft of Russia’s Central Military District destroyed a Ukrainian stronghold, enemy personnel and transport vehicles in the Krasny Liman area, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.

"We were assigned an objective to destroy an enemy stronghold and the takeoff and flight were carried out by an air group using S-13 rockets. After approaching the target, performing a maneuver and launching rockets, we descended to the lower boundary at an altitude of 25 meters with the launch of infrared decoys in a dodging maneuver," the ministry quoted a Su-25 pilot with the call sign Grach as saying.

The air group of Su-25SM attack aircraft wiped out the enemy stronghold, personnel and light armored transport vehicles, the ministry specified.

"Upon entering the engagement zone, the pilots delivered strikes against nationalists with 80mm rockets designed to strike site targets. The fire by S-8 rockets was delivered from the position of toss bombing that allows for attacking with rockets without entering the zone of enemy air defenses," the ministry said.

The Su-25 attack aircraft is designed to provide close support to land troops day and night and destroy targets with designated coordinates round-the-clock in any weather conditions. As of now, the Russian Aerospace Forces operate the Su-25SM and Su-25SM3 modifications and the Su-25UB combat trainer version.

The Su-25 is armed with a GSh-30-2 air gun, KAB-500 and KAB-1500 smart bombs, UAK-23-250 and SPPU-1 underslung gun mounts, aircraft rockets of various designations and other air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles.