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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Ukraine downs Russian warplane; Russia claims gains in the east
By SAMYA KULLAB and ELISE MORTON KYIV, Ukraine©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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TaiwanIsNotChina
Good going Ukraine! Time to strike fear into those who bomb innocents!!!
Primusinter
There is no information about a shot down plane in the news sources. Only about a drone, Ohotnik (hunter).
"The newest Russian combat drone S-70 Hunter was shot down over Konstantinovka, which is still occupied by the AFU in the DPR. According to unofficial reports, he was shot down by a Russian Aerospace Forces fighter with an air-to-air missile. The most likely reason is not accidental "friendly fire", but the decision taken to eliminate the drone, which lost control due to a technical malfunction and flew into enemy territory. The Ukrainian side publishes footage of the wreckage of the Hunter."
In your pictures, we see only one wing of a drone :)
JJE
There he goes yet again!
Banging on about his "victory plan". The man is deluded and has completely lost touch with reality.
More sad is people are sucked in at the photos of that "wing of a plane fighter".
Examine the drilling holes on the leading edge, the inner materials and the overall wingspan. The cope is real.
Putin is the only man with a victory plan.
JJE
Incorrectamundo.
This has everything to do with Zelensky asset stripping the main line of contact and sending all available reserves - paltry as they are - into his little Kursk misadventure. This is the hangover from that stunt. Many of the noteworthy RFAF advances over the past few months are directly related to this and it will not stop now.
Russia has built up a considerable military force on the Eastern Front, which includes incidentally, significant formations on Donbass/Crimea origin. This is while AFU have been steadily ground down. The Autumn campaign season is in full swing with another winter one waiting.
The fiction that a few missile strikes will stop the Russian MIC lives rent free in certain quarter's head. Even worse is the belief that the relevant weapons are available in any numbers. Worse still is the completely misguided notion that Moscow wouldn't directly retaliate against the foreign parties facilitating it. Time to clean up the act.
Blacklabel
he presented it already.
give me limitless weapons and limitless money, forever.
Mr Kipling
Except this is not the truth.
What really happened was the Russians lost control ( or the Ukrainians/NATO took control of) an S-70 drone and then a Russian SU 57 shot down their own top spec drone to prevent the enemy having it.
The photo clearly shows the wing of an S-70. The 5th generation SU 57 can control up to 5 S-70 drones that fly with it.
There is video this incident. Ukraine does not have SU 57.