This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Chris Bero and at 14 hours GMT on Monday the 15th of January these are our main stories.

Ukraine claims to have dealt a major blow to Russia's

air power by destroying two planes. Ethnic rebels in Western Myanmar say they've

captured a strategic town near the border with India the latest setback for the ruling military.

Bernardo is finally sworn in as Guatemala's new president after hours of delays.

Also in the podcast, voters in Iowa are preparing to choose the Republican nominee in the

campaign for the White House and in football Can Mo Sala help Egypt win the Africa Cup of Nations after a slow start?

We We begin in Ukraine where the country's military has been struggling to make significant

gains against Russia in recent months, but now it's announced what analysts have described as

potentially a major blow to Moscow, the shooting down of a Russian spy plane and

a command plane. Ukraine says its Air Force destroyed an A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft and an ill-22 air

control center.

But the BBC hasn't verified that.

BBC monitoring's Russia editor Vitali Shevchenko has been looking at some pictures that are emerging

of one of the damaged planes.

One of the two planes, the Il-22, which is a flying command post, and it looks like it was able to make it to an airfield but one picture we

haven't absolutely definitely verified it but it looks like it's an ill 22 and it shows it

completely shredded apparently by a surface-to-air missile now the more

important plane which Ukraine claims to have a shot down is the

A50. It's a massive flying radar basically with a huge circular radar on top of it. It's apparently one of

only six that Russia has. It's hugely expensive. It costs between 250 and 300 million dollars and it looks like it was

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