Posted on 08/15/2024 9:42:33 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
THIS is the moment Vladimir Putin's $40 million nuclear-capable Tu-22 bomber jet crashed in Siberia today in a humiliating blow to the despot.
The valuable Russian aircraft came down in a fiery blaze after takeoff, marking another embarrassment for Vlad as Ukraine continues its successful invasion of Russia.
Witnesses said the Tu-22M3 nuclear bomber - planes used by Putin as a key part of his nuclear arsenal - broke apart in the sky before crashing amid fierce explosions.
Dramatic footage showed the moment an enormous fireball filled the sky as the aircraft came down.
The crew of four ejected safely before the high-tech plane hit the ground and exploded in Irkutsk, Siberia, according to reports.
The plane crashed near the Cheryomkhovsky district of the Irkutsk region, some 3,300 miles east of Moscow.
No clear explanation was given for the fiery crash, but Russian state media kept to the line of a "technical malfunction".
A smarting Putin, struggling to fend off a Ukrainian border incursion in Kursk, this week deployed two Tu-22 planes to threaten the West in a nuclear drill over the Baltic Sea.
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Totally agree - and would include that Putin’s critics end up “falling” out of windows and dying in gulags.
No probably, definitely not.
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