[Gaffer]

The picture (one which this article would seemingly have one believe is the aircraft in the title) is of a downed Russian cruise missile [picture captioned: “A Russian cruise missile shot down by Ukrainian Air Defence Forces is seen in the backyard of a private house, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv region, Ukraine May 18, 2023. (Reuters)”]

Are there any links to pictures of the other two aircraft wreckage from the claimed shoot down? It is not clearly apparent what happened with the night time video linked and all the decoy flare popping going on.

[BroJoeK]

Gaffer: "Are there any links to pictures of the other two aircraft wreckage from the claimed shoot down?
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.