Russia’s dubious world record in accumulating missile strikes comes as President Zelensky announced that his country destroyed their 200th Russian airplane, an embarrassing result for an air force that is 15 times larger than that of Ukraine.

The global commentary on this milestone lauded Ukraine’s defenders while noting Russia’s failure to take advantage of its overwhelming numerical advantage, Moscow’s misstep in not establishing air superiority in the skies over Ukraine, and Russia’s dwindling supply of precision-guided weapons.

In the face of all of this, Russia retaliated on Sunday by announcing that it had destroyed 165 Ukrainian aircraft since the beginning of its “special military operation.” That would be almost three times the number of flyable fighter jets that Ukraine even possesses.

“The Russian Air Force (VKS) still shows no sign of running a campaign to gain air superiority,” says retired British Air Marshal Edward Stringer.