Posted on 04/19/2024 4:21:20 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
DRAMATIC footage captured the moment Ukraine "shot down" a Russian Tu-22M3 nuke bomber sending it spiralling to the ground.
The £228million aircraft was part of Vladimir Putin’s nuclear strike force - and the downing is seen as a major blow to the dictator.
It crashed over the Stavropol region - some 250 miles from the border - in southern Russia after completing a bombing attack on Ukraine.
The long-range strategic bomber was shot down by a S-200 anti-aircraft missile system, said Channel 2, citing sources in Ukraine's GUR military intelligence agency.
The GUR said: “As a result of the damage, the bomber was able to fly to the Stavropol region, where it fell and crashed.
“It should be noted that this is the first successful destruction of a strategic bomber in the air during combat during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Mr Zeeper king,
Why do you post multiple articles about the same event?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4232207/posts
Great!
But Ukraine is still going to lose the war.
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Duh! More and better imagery/video, maybe?
I see you crowing about one Russian plane being lost in the last two months in which thousands of sorties have been flown and most of the Uke air defense (see your boy Z’s statements) destroyed.
I see when confronted by facts you bring out the caricatures of yourself rather than addressing the facts. Put your shoe back on and address the facts of my reply.
It is an unusual event after all.
I thought it was some sort of accident.
It leaves several questions open - among them, what was such an aircraft, designed for launching very long range standoff weapons, doing so close to Ukraine?
What would be your reaction if that plane was carrying a nuclear warhead and then detonated? Russia could have claimed that Lord Voldemort Zeleniskyy did it to himself.
You globohomo’s would be proud and gleeful to see radiation flowing through miles of Ukraine farmland. /spit
He is responding in the usual style of several of your friends. Tit for tat.
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