Posted on 04/19/2024 4:21:20 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
DRAMATIC footage captured the moment Ukraine "shot down" a Russian Tu-22M3 nuke bomber sending it spiralling to the ground.
The £228million aircraft was part of Vladimir Putin’s nuclear strike force - and the downing is seen as a major blow to the dictator.
It crashed over the Stavropol region - some 250 miles from the border - in southern Russia after completing a bombing attack on Ukraine.
The long-range strategic bomber was shot down by a S-200 anti-aircraft missile system, said Channel 2, citing sources in Ukraine's GUR military intelligence agency.
The GUR said: “As a result of the damage, the bomber was able to fly to the Stavropol region, where it fell and crashed.
“It should be noted that this is the first successful destruction of a strategic bomber in the air during combat during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
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So what? They’re all the same, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus. Three brothers.
Stalin was Georgian.
And Putin is Mongol.
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