It is not clearly apparent what happened with the night time video linked and all the decoy flare popping going on."
Apparently there've been two of these Russian A-50 AWACS style planes shot down by Ukrainians, the first on January 14 and the second just yesterday.
I do remember seeing there was a second escort type plane also shot down on January 14, but not yesterday.
I'm reading that Russian military bloggers don't deny there was another A-50 downed yesterday, but they are hugely reluctant to admit it was an ancient Soviet, now Ukrainian S-200 missile that did it.
For them that's inconceivable, so they claim it was a Russian "friendly fire" missile which brought down their own plane.
Frankly, just between you & me and that lamppost over there, I'm just as happy if Russians shoot down their own planes.
A win is a win, I'd say.
Only the ancient S-200 has enough range to actually reach that A-50 east of the Sea of Azov.