Posted on 02/25/2022 8:57:56 PM PST by Zhang Fei
A second Russian Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane was shot down near Bila Tserkva, 50 miles (85 kilometers) south of Kyiv, according to two American officials with direct knowledge of conditions on the ground in Ukraine.
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I’ll believe it when Russia confirms it. Right now, I haven’t heard the claim from a credible source, yet.
That’s 125 to 225 kills per plane. Not bad.
I saw a video of several Ukraine tanks and like machinery on fire along a highway sent in by people driving ......hard to view because nobody in those could survive.
It is war...and war is so nasty and deadly to many regardless who does the shooting.
Hahaha - perfect !
Huh? Russia will never confirm anything of the sort. Don’t you realize that? It’s a crime to repot fatalities.
War is a fog period....with lots of propaganda. Heck there’s people putting up photos of Iraqs war calling it Ukraine.
Russia denied this a couple of hours ago.
This particular plane was used to transport troops to Vasilkov (SW of Kiev); the ground fighting there is still going on.
“A second Russian Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane was shot down near Bila Tserkva, 50 miles (85 kilometers) south of Kyiv, according to two American officials with direct knowledge of conditions on the ground in Ukraine.”
Remember 2 weeks to flatten the curve or “if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.” Yeah I belive EVERYTHING the news and our government tell me.
The one thing I’ve learned over the last 20 years is I cannot believe media or their puppet masters the govt.
Unless they were just pilots to identify targets for Russia.
Putin:
Winning the Hearts and Minds of Ukrainians to side with Russia vs. working with the EU.
There should be 50 shot down by now. Putin’s trying to land Paratroops around Kyiv. Big, slow IL-76’s is the only way to do this.
Russian Tank Collumns in nice long lines would be kill zones for A-10’s.
This is proving a Soviet invasion into Germany in the 1980’s would have been Crushing for the Soviets. Picking on disarmed pacifists is about all they can handle.
marcusmaximus has linked to a video clip that claims to show the remains of a Russian column that took a bunch of hits from Ukrainian forces:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1497331456972140546
If Russian generals are taking the reckless risk of sending transport planes carrying troops into unsecured combat zones in an era of increasingly sophisticated shoulder held anti aircraft missiles, then they are under incredible pressure from a very worried, stressed out Putin who made the most catastrophic decision of his life.
“Huh? Russia will never confirm anything of the sort. Don’t you realize that? It’s a crime to repot fatalities.”
Well, then all I have are two sources known to lie and with a specific desired outcome. I don’t believe the Russian denials either...like I say, I’m open minded on this, perhaps in the past, I might have believed our government, and in the distant past I might have believed our media...but Jan 6th told me all that I need to know about both.
Daily mail said so. They were the only one’s right about Hunter.
If the Washington Post or NYT said it, you’d have a point.
You’ll believe anything
There were reports Ukrainian bayraktar drones purchased from Turkey were devastating entire columns of Russian vehicles, I wonder if that was an instance
https://t.me/new_militarycolumnist/73747
Possible this? This is a highway near Poltava. Mi24 work.
The same thing happened to Uke troops leaving Kherson and likely a few more.
The best Ukrainian troops are on Donbass and received an order to form Army Group Wenck and head to Kiev... I wonder if they realize that highways should be avoided.
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