Posted on 05/13/2023 6:43:30 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Videos posted on Russian social media on Saturday showed a helicopter apparently being shot down over Russia’s Bryansk region, bordering Ukraine.
The state news agency TASS cited an emergency services official as saying preliminary information indicated the helicopter’s engine had caught fire before the crash near Klintsy, which is around 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the border.
However, a video posted on the Russian pro-war Telegram channel Voyenniy Osvedomitel, which has around half a million followers, showed a helicopter high in the sky exploding, being thrown off course and then plunging earthwards in flames.
Comments accompanying the video, which Reuters could not immediately verify, said the craft, a Russian-built Mi-8 transport helicopter, had been shot down by a missile.
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LOL... “once upon a time”.
Once upon a time, Kyiv in 3 days.
Silliness. That was straight from DC and London fever swamp thinkers. There is not a single instance of Russia saying it would be done in three days. But nice straw man.
Crimea is safe from Kiev and is never going back. Face facts.
Is Lukashenko near death, too?
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