Rare Cockpit Video Shows Ukrainian Su-25 Destroyed in SecondsThomas Newdick, an author for the American defense outlet The War Zone (TWZ), commented on what he described as "gut-wrenching” first-person footage capturing the moment a Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft was shot down by a Russian R-37M missile. How the Footage Was RecordedAccording to the analyst, the video was most likely recorded by a GoPro camera mounted under the right wing of the Su-25. The aircraft starts to cartwheel through the sky, its fuselage clearly ripped open, evidenced by the exposed main landing gear," Newdick writes. He recalls that in one of its official statements, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the downing of a Ukrainian Su-25 near the settlement of Novotroitskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic. Earlier, the Western magazine Military Watch Magazine reported that on December 8, 2025, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed one of Ukraine's most indispensable fighter aircraft, the Su-27.