The night of January 19 was relatively calm in the airspace of Ukraine, in the morning an enemy A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft was detected in the waters of the Sea of Azov, said Yuriy Ihnat, spokesperson of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

"It doesn't often happen that there is a more or less calm night in the airspace: there are no attacks by means of air attack, such as drones, first of all, which we are used to seeing virtually every night during autumn and winter. This night is one of the few that was without warning messages,” he said on the telethon.

The spokesperson noted that after three massive enemy attacks, there is “a certain hush, but this does not mean that we need to relax.”

“Now, after the map with enemy air targets is empty, 5-6 air targets appeared, in particular, the famous A-50 in the waters of the Sea of Azov. It’s testing its fate. We talked the day before about what would happen after the destruction of the A-50, I said: another one will arrive. There is nothing surprising in this, because there are still such planes in Russia. Therefore, there is an A-50, there is a fighter closer to Rostov, and how about without drones that monitor the front line," Ihnat noted.

On January 15, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny announced the destruction by Ukrainian forces of an enemy A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft and an enemy Il-22 air control point.