Posted on 12/22/2023 8:26:49 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Update (0933 EST): Russian military bloggers are blaming Russian General Teplinsky for ordering the glide bombing of the Ukrainian bridgehead by Su-34s even after a November 25th shoot down of another Su-34 carrying out that mission.
The bloggers claim that Teplinsky is “obsessed” with destroying the Ukrainian bridgehead and has “crossed a line”, sacrificing hundreds of soldiers, Marines, and now up to four Su-34s. According to their sources, the general disregarded warnings of Ukrainian shuffling of advanced air defenses to Kherson and ordered the flights anyways.
These bloggers may be referencing Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky who is the embattled commander of Russian VDV forces in Ukraine.
At approximately 0600 EST, Ukrainian Air Force Commander Oleshchuk announced that his forces shot down three Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers in the Southern conflict zone at midday, local time. The bombers were downed above Kherson Oblast on their way to attack the Ukrainian bridgehead at Krynky.
Russian military bloggers immediately responded; fighter_bomber, a popular Russian military Telegram page posted that the circumstances were being investigated, but that the flight of Su-34s were most likely shot down by U.S.-supplied PATRIOT surface-to-air missile batteries.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces then posted the below photos showing search and rescue helicopters investigating the crash site where they found a parachute and flight gear of at least one of the Russian pilots.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlasnews.co ...
Actually, those are Ukrainian women planting another brainless hunk of press-ganged Ukie cannon fodder.
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