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U.S. intel helped Ukraine protect air defenses, shoot down Russian plane carrying hundreds of troops
nbcnews.com ^ | April 26, 2022 | Ken Dilanian, Courtney Kube, Carol E. Lee and Dan De Luce

Posted on 04/26/2022 11:06:08 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

As Russia launched its invasion, the U.S. gave Ukrainian forces detailed intelligence about exactly when and where Russian missiles and bombs were intended to strike, prompting Ukraine to move air defenses and aircraft out of harm’s way, current and former U.S. officials told NBC News.

That near real-time intelligence-sharing also paved the way for Ukraine to shoot down a Russian transport plane carrying hundreds of troops in the early days of the war, the officials say, helping repel a Russian assault on a key airport near Kyiv.

It was part of what American officials call a massive and unprecedented intelligence-sharing operation with a non-NATO partner that they say has played a crucial role in Ukraine’s success to date against the larger and better-equipped Russian military.

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To: Beagle8U
“Why the %$&! is this info getting out in the media?”

Looks like the Biden regime wants voters to think the success of the Ukrainians is due to Joe.

“I did this,” Joe is saying through anonymous sources.

Supports the wished-for narrative that the regime is very efficient; at the top of their game.

41 posted on 04/26/2022 1:03:06 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: NorseViking; Berlin_Freeper; Seruzawa; All

Pretty sure this was it. Said at the time that is what it looked like, and was just guessing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4J3ZMM_w0M


42 posted on 04/26/2022 1:12:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: Berlin_Freeper; Spok; All
Don't anyone forget what this is all about....


43 posted on 04/26/2022 1:13:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: Starboard

In your statement I suggest you relearn history like The Korean War,The Vietnam War, The Syrian War an we should go hide like Obama did sending them blankets are you really saying that? I say first of all where is your proof that Russia has more than the 1 bomb they exploded. There BS artists. I worked on there Transatlantic IL62M aircraft that they stole the plans form the Englisch VC10. But did not steal the weight and balance for so Thery had to add a tail wheel.and so is anyone who believes they have so many Nukes BS say I the obligates most likely sold them to somebody by now. Putin was BS into believing they have a great Army its a paper tiger thats who they really are. 1 good thing about the UK war is it scared NATO members into doing what they promised to do. I dare Putin to even fly a nuke over Ukraine they will regret it forever. As the UKs will shot it down and then load the bomb on a UK aircraft and drop it on them.....


44 posted on 04/26/2022 1:13:59 PM PDT by electricjack (Hello I am from the govt an an I here to help you Ugh worst thing I ever heard..)
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To: buwaya

You think the logic was sound. Ok... got it.


45 posted on 04/26/2022 1:16:19 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: BenLurkin

Where is the wreck? It is was true it should have been all over the media.


46 posted on 04/26/2022 1:19:40 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: Seruzawa

Charter airliner. Airbus clone of 767.


47 posted on 04/26/2022 1:36:16 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: Seruzawa; NorseViking

One of these beasts (but now destroyed)... aNTONOV 225:

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-antonov-an-225-worlds-biggest-cargo-plane-russia-ukraine-war-7794404/


48 posted on 04/26/2022 2:02:57 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

So the US government - Biden administration at a minimum - is directly responsible for Russian soldier deaths.

How would we have responded?

/s


49 posted on 04/26/2022 2:14:49 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: carriage_hill

No, it wasn’t a 225. That was sadly destroyed in the hanger in the fighting.


50 posted on 04/26/2022 2:15:27 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: NorseViking

You would think that the wreckage would be all over the media along with hundreds of bodies strewn all over. Like in that incident where that Dutch airliner was shot down over the Donbass.


51 posted on 04/26/2022 2:17:09 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: carriage_hill

It’s one of the most tragic things in this war that that cool 225 was destroyed on the ground.
The other is that Russia supplies 25% of our King Crab legs.
People can’t easily go fly in a MiG-29 anymore, and research on cloning the Wooly Mammoth will likely grind to a halt.

All for a boutique DC globalist project and because Biden and half of DC accepted so many bribes from Kiev. Now Zelinsky owns them. All he has to do is go on TV and presto* another billion shows up.


52 posted on 04/26/2022 2:24:05 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Spok

“If we really want a war with Russia, why don’t we just go ahead and launch a first strike?”

Thank you, General “Buck” Turgison!


53 posted on 04/26/2022 2:37:16 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Seruzawa

Yeah. What kind of plane carries “hundreds of troops”? A C-5 carries around 75.


Think it was a modified Antonov An-124 Ruslan


54 posted on 04/26/2022 2:39:28 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me Somalia isn’t sending their best.and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: fidelis

Even an Antinov 124 only transports 88 troops.


But another 365 in palatalized seating in cargo hold.


55 posted on 04/26/2022 2:40:35 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me Somalia isn’t sending their best.and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: NorseViking

Where is the wreck? It is was true it should have been all over the media.

Burned up. And it was on the news - you might have missed it.


56 posted on 04/26/2022 2:42:36 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me Somalia isn’t sending their best.and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: DesertRhino

You would think that the wreckage would be all over the media along with hundreds of bodies strewn all over.

Yeah the media is going to rush into the middle of a high-intensity firefight with heavy weapons and take snaps of the wreckage and bodies, followed by a full scale FAA investigation. /s


57 posted on 04/26/2022 2:45:37 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me Somalia isn’t sending their best.and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Zhang Fei

‘Part of the Russian mythos, dating back almost a thousand years, and given firm foundation by its vast territorial expanse acquired at swordpoint’
How many military campaigns did Britain fight during its territorial aquisitions? You seem obsessed about Russia’s colonial expansion. Well the U.S exists because of it too


58 posted on 04/26/2022 2:49:00 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: buwaya

Would it be okay if a president in the same situation had unilaterally decided to support Russia instead?


59 posted on 04/26/2022 3:16:14 PM PDT by unlearner (Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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To: DesertRhino

You sure nailed that, 100%!


60 posted on 04/26/2022 3:20:08 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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