Posted on 02/24/2024 4:46:53 AM PST by marcusmaximus
This is the shocking moment a Ukrainian missile destroyed a £260mn Russian spy plane over Krasnodar on the second anniversary of Putin's bloody invasion.
Video showed huge plumes of smoke billowing from the wreckage after the A-50U reconnaissance plane's wing was reportedly torn off by a hit from a revamped S-200 Soviet-era long-range air defence missile - a staggering blow to Russia's already diminishing collection.
Ten crew were reported to have been found dead at the crash site in Russia's Krasnodar region, where the dictator's official Black Sea residence and private £1 billion place are located. The eventual toll is likely to be higher.
The A-50U AWACS reconnaissance plane was shot down some 150 miles inside Russia from the frontline in a major success for Ukraine, and the worst month of the war for Putin's air force.
Separately, a Ukrainian kamikaze drone attack is believed to be responsible for three thunderous explosions and a massive fire at Russia's largest steel producer NLMK in Lipetsk, majority owned by magnate and 'laird' Vladimir Lisin, 67, famous for buying a sprawling Scottish estate in Perthshire.
Footage shows the plane hit after it repeatedly fired heat traps seeking to evade incoming missiles.
Two blazing sections of the stricken aircraft were seen falling from the sky.
'We heard two pops and a rumble,' a witness on the ground told Telegram channel VChK-OGPU.
'We ran out into the street… When it flew over us, it was no longer intact, without the right wing with a large roll.
'The fuselage fell into the ground, and the left wing was knocked off by trees and landed in the courtyard of house 13 Polevaya Street.
'Two grannies live there, they were not injured.'
Footage also showed a massive inferno on the ground.
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Russia has ramped up production and added factory capacity since the war began This includes shells, missiles and especially drones
Yup, thanks for proving me right. Russia two years later is losing 7 irreplaceable planes in one week, pulling out old tanks made in the 60's, but they are getting stronger. Okay
What you fail to mention, is that Russians are taking a town reduced to rubble after 7 months of Russian human wave attacks.
Pro-war Russian blogger who revealed huge Avdiivka losses dies by suicide
Andrey Morozov, a prominent pro-war Russian blogger, has reportedly died by suicide following outrage over a post in which he claimed that the Russian army lost 16,000 soldiers during the capture of the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka.
Morozov, who went by the pseudonym Murz on Telegram, was an ultra-nationalist commentator who fought alongside Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and participated in Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.
On Sunday, Morozov wrote to his 120,000 followers on Telegram that Russia lost 16,000 personnel and 300 pieces of armour during its months-long capture of Avdiivka. The post drew heavy criticism from senior Russian propagandists, who accused the blogger of “slandering the Russian defence ministry”.
—-> Bottom line is that you have become abettors of serious and real American enemies.
Does this type of declaration help you not think about siding with the globohomopedos trying to enslave the world??
You are so fixated on antiqueer trash that you aren’t able to escape being a neo isolationist fraud
Queers have nothing to do whatso ever with the Russian atrocities that you support in Ukraine.
Your queer trash is a precise indication of gross gullibility
Well Newbie........ what are you attempting to tell us?
—> nothing to do whatso ever with the Russian atrocities that you support in Ukraine.
I’ve never supported Ukraine atrocities, nor Russian atrocities.
You make up crap and then pretend it is true, accusing FRs of supporting atrocities.
Bert, just how many vaxxes and boosters have you had??
is that you, tlolzo?
Belgorod ground in 20 seconds!
Bring your parade parachutes!
"tlolzo"
We fired our artillery and the Ukies kept a'swimmin',
There wasn't quite as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the Dnepr to the delta on the sea.
Yeah, they ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a T-90 couldn't go
They ran so fast that the drones couldn't catch 'em
On down the Dnepr to the delta on the sea.
We looked down the river and we see'd the Ukies come
And there must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' on the drum
They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring
We stood behind the Surovikin line and didn't say a thing
We used our shovels and the Ukies kept a-comin'
There wasn't as many as there was a while ago
We swung once more and they began to runnin'
On down the Dnepr to the delta on the sea.
The Putin said, "We could take 'em by surprise
If we didn't use our shovels 'til we looked 'em in the eye"
We held our shovels 'til we see'd their faces well
Then we opened up our refrigerators and gave 'em a lil hell
Well, we swung our shovels and the Ukies kept a-comin'
There wasn't quite as many as there was a while ago
We swung once more and they began to runnin'
On down the Dnepr to the delta on the sea.
Yeah, they ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a T-90 couldn't go
They ran so fast that the drones couldn't catch 'em
On down the Dnepr to the delta on the sea.
We used our shovels 'til the handles broke down
So we grabbed a Ukie beaver and we fought another round
We filled his head with cannonballs 'n' powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off, the beaver lost his mind
We used our shovels and the Ukies kept a-comin'
There wasn't quite as many as there was a while ago
We swung once more and they began to runnin'
On down the Dnepr to the delta on the sea.
Yeah, they ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a T-90 couldn't go
They ran so fast that the drones couldn't catch 'em
On down the Dnepr to the delta on the sea.
by Ivanny Horton
Yeah, the Ukies ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a T-90 couldn't go
They ran so fast that the drones couldn't catch 'em
Swimmin' down the Dnepr to the delta on the sea.
lol!! The one and only Johnny Horton!!
Ohnoes!!
How much did the missile cost?
Ukraine is claiming they used an obsolete S200 to shoot it down. I don’t know what Russia is said they shot it down with.
Thanks.
Unstoppable. Russia Captured Three Settlements Near Avdiivka. Russian Advance & Entered Ivanivske.
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