Russians now denying it was friendly fire.
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“Disaster”. We lost another A-50 aircraft, the military speaks of an “unknown weapon” of the enemy
Our sources in the Aerospace Forces and the Ministry of Defense confirm information about the loss of the A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft. This is the second such loss in just over a month.
“It’s a disaster. The plane was shot down, killing (preliminary data) from 12 to 17 people,” an interlocutor at the Aerospace Forces told us.
Another denied the currently spreading version that the plane was lost as a result of friendly fire from our air defense.
“It was definitely an enemy shooting. He was shooting from some unknown weapon. It was most likely not a Patriot, but something more serious,” he said.
What exactly, the source does not yet know. The plane, in his opinion, could either be shot down over the Sea of Azov ( which, frankly, is unlikely, judging by the video of this disaster ), or shot down directly over the Krasnodar Territory, where in this case this incomprehensible Ukrainian weapon reached.
On the other hand, a representative of the Ministry of Defense talks about friendly fire. “Our drunken air defense fighters shoot down their planes ( we wrote about this emergency - ed. ), so anything can happen. They shot down the A-50s themselves,” he said bitterly.
We will find out the details of this tragedy and will tell you as soon as we receive new information.