Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Who is on first base?
“⚡️BREAKING
🔥🇷🇺Russian and 🇦🇪UAE-backed rebels from “Operational Support Force” shoot down Russian military cargo plane IL-76 with weapons in 🇸🇩Sudan
It is known that there were Russians on board, they died.”
https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1848413351396970560
Victor was unlucky as well.
“Bad news: Russia sent an IL-76 military cargo plane full with weapons to a terrorist grouping in Sudan.
Good news: the terrorists have shot it down on friendly fire.
Ergo: dismantle Russia and you will be surprised how strongly world terrorism will decline”
https://x.com/sumlenny/status/1848413739433005211
“JUST IN: First footages from the scene of the plane crash in #Sudan
According to Sudanwarmonitor, a publication that monitors the military situation in the country, the IL-76 plane was shot down in the Malha region of North Darfur.
It was shot down by RSF separatist fighters, for whom the delivery was intended. According to one version, there were weapons on board.
Among the crew was a citizen of the Russian Federation and Kyrgyzstan. Judging by the video, one of the dead was the chief engineer of Airline Transport Incorparation FZC Victor Granov. Several other Russian citizens were with him. The exact number of victims is unknown, but usually the IL-76 crew consists of 5 people.”
https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1848413385999987088
Too many acronyms and too many terrorists. But as long as RuZZians died, I’m good.
“SUDAN | In a bizarre turn of events, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have mistakenly shot down a UAE-operated IL-76 cargo plane (Reg: EX-76011) operated by New Way Cargo Airline in Darfur, thinking it belonged to the Sudanese army. It was reportedly delivering weapons to RSF.”
https://x.com/obijeli/status/1848393465723281469
“Sudanese paramilitary mistakenly shoots down UAE cargo plane”
“Crew from Russia, Kyrgyzstan dead in crash”
“The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) today at approximately 04:00 shot down a cargo airplane in the Malha area of North Darfur, claiming that they had eliminated an Antonov airplane used as a bomber by the Sudanese military.
However, evidence from the wreckage suggests that this airplane actually was part of an airlift sponsored by the United Arab Emirates in support of the RSF itself. Jubilant fighters on the ground who filmed the wreckage seemed not to have realized that they had shot down a cargo plane used for their own supply and logistics.
Ali Rizkallah ‘Savannah,’ a prominent RSF commander in North Darfur, appeared in one video at the scene of the crash (below), saying they had used “guided missiles” to bring down the “Egyptian Antonov.” (This rhetoric follows the lead of the RSF commander-in-chief, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who recently accused the “treacherous Egyptian Air Force” of bombing his troops).
In fact, the wreckage is that of an Ilyushin-76, and one of the crew members was carrying a crew badge (in the video below) identifying him as the main engineer for “Airline Transport Incorporation FZC,” a company based in the United Arab Emirates, with has ties to Kyrgyzstan. The crewman’s badge said “Manas International Airport,” which is the main international airport of Kyrgyzstan.
Another crewman had a Russian passport. Although these documents survived the wreck, there were no reported surviving crew, and the aircraft was largely incinerated, creating a large impact crater. The typical IL-76 crew has five members.
Another piece of wreckage belonged to New Way Cargo Airlines, which has taken part in a UAE airlift to Amdjarass in eastern Chad, according to a recent investigation by the Conflict Observatory, a research consortium funded by the U.S. State Department.
Conflict Observatory identified several Kyrgyz Ilyushin-76 aircraft involved in the UAE’s airlift to Amdjarass, Chad, including two operated by New Way Cargo Airlines (EX-76010 and EX-76015), which has aircraft based in Ras al-Khaima, UAE.
In total, the investigation identified seven flights by known cargo planes and an additional 35 unidentified cargo flights to Amdjarass Airport between June 2023 and May 2024, when the research period ended. The UAE claims this airlift was for humanitarian purposes, but the researchers at Conflict Observatory said almost certainly the cargo plaines were bringing military supplies, corroborating previous findings by other sources, including a UN Panel of Experts, and The New York Times.
Conflict Observatory noted that one of New Way Airlines’s airplanes previously took part in an airlift supporting General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army forces in violation of a Security Council arms embargo, according to a UN report. The UAE’s arms deliveries to Darfur likewise violate an arms embargo, which the Security Council imposed in 2004 during the previous war in Darfur.
Additionally, unidentified cargo planes have landed recently in Nyala, South Darfur, which observers have speculated were bringing supplies and evacuating wounded RSF fighters. The last such flight landed at Nyala Airport four nights ago, according to eyewitnesses living in the Jabal neighborhood.
RSF troops in North Darfur likely would not have known anything about secret nighttime flights in South Darfur coordinated by the paramilitary’s leadership. Instead, they would have been on the lookout for Sudanese Air Force warplanes, which have routinely carried out bombings in North Darfur against both civilians and RSF targets.
Sudan’s civil war began in April 2023 between the Sudanese military and its former ally, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which originated as a collective of ethnic Arab militias in Darfur. The war has gutted the nation’s capital, displaced a quarter of the population, wrecked the economy, and plunged parts of Sudan into famine.”
https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/sudanese-paramilitary-mistakenly
Well, for them, at least: IT’S OVER.
A Russian milblogger says this causes even higher losses because the loss of specialists means less fire support. ⬇️
https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1848414016441618835
https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1848385120828354949
BRICS, RICKS, DICKS.
Serbia out. Cuba out. Brazil out.
“Serbia’s Vucic to Skip BRICS Summit Despite Putin Invite”
▪️Golenkov was involved in the strike on the Amstor shopping center in Kremenchuk in 2022, where 1,000 people were at the time of the attack and 22 people were killed.
▪️ He was also responsible for the attack on an apartment building in Dnipro in 2023, when 46 people were killed, among them 6 children.
▪️ The body of the war criminal was found with numerous head injuries, probably from a hammer, in Supunevo, Bryansk region, Russia.
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1848246841588044005
My guess is that Golenkov was stupid enough to brag about his missions on one of the ruzzian blogs.
My guess would be suicide and that no upstairs windows were available.
https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1848447199425994889
...intelligence officers [specialized in North Korea]...
These "intel officers" would be used to interrogate any Norks that surrender or are captured.
“HIMARS strike on Russian R-934B electronic warfare system.”
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1848436423222849733
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