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"Stinger" at the exit from the attack, an explosion in the air and ... That's it. "Russian public discuss the death of the pilot-general
C News Russian Service ^ | 24-MAY-2022 | C News Russian Service

Posted on 05/24/2022 7:38:53 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

In the sky over Ukraine, retired Major General of the Russian Air Force Kanamat Botashev was shot down and killed. Information about the death of the pilot was confirmed to the BBC by three former subordinates of Botashev, who kept in touch with him after the end of the service. They requested anonymity for personal security reasons.

Botashev is the highest-ranking pilot whose death became known . Prior to his retirement, he was the commander of an aviation regiment. The participation of such a high-ranking officer in air battles can speak both of how difficult tasks Moscow sets for military pilots, and of the lack of highly qualified specialists.

On Sunday, May 22, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced that a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft was shot down in the sky over the Luhansk region. The pilot did not have time to eject, the report said.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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To: Big Brother Go to Hell

“SO, has humanity returned to World War 1/static, trench warfare, now that missiles so easily destroy aircraft and armored vehicles?”

Trench warfare. The most wanton destruction of human life in the history of warfare.


61 posted on 05/24/2022 9:04:13 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: DesertRhino

Being American does not demand fealty to Galician fascism.


But in your case, being an American demands endorsing the slaughter of civilians, Mr. Orc Lover.


62 posted on 05/24/2022 9:16:45 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: DesertRhino

You are such a lying piece of cr-p, Putin kisser. The Russians were not wanted there, the Russians were and are the ones abusing the Ukrainians in Donbass. Now Russian troops in that region are raping women from elderly down through little children. Maybe paid Chechen monster mercenaries, I find it hard to believe ethnic Russians soldiers could be that evil and barbaric. This is not from news outlets, this is from first hand knowledge shared by a mission staff family member who is still in Donbass and knows families where this abuse/rape trauma has happened.

And stop with the “neo Nazi” lies, sheesh give it a rest. I hope you are getting paid a lot for your Russian propaganda. Is it by the word, or by the comment? Maybe a bonus point each time you say NeoNazi?


63 posted on 05/24/2022 9:38:10 AM PDT by boxlunch (10th Amendmt: nullification or Texit? PS We're in a hot war: globalists, CCP, media, Dems, RINOs)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
What you're supporting in Ukraine, you miserable motherfreeper:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/05/challenging_common_beliefs_about_ukraine_.html

Meanwhile, the fruits of our labor are being confiscated in the form of taxes and used to empower an evil ideology whose depredations we were promised would "Never Again" occur, a scourge we were told had been wiped from the face of the Earth, but whose adherents have been hiding in plain sight this whole time. And while the shock troops of today's Hitler Youth — Antifa and BLM — tear down the statues of our Founding Fathers and heroes of the Revolutionary War, monuments to war criminals like Stepan Banderas, who murdered 30,000 Ukrainian Jews at Babyn Yar in 1931, are still standing in places like Ellenville, N.Y., and there are streets and national holidays named in his honor. The Nazis of today march under the banners of Azov, Right Sector, Svoboda, and C-14; their bodies are adorned with tattoos of swastikas; and their weapons, uniforms, and salaries are paid for courtesy of the U.S. government and the spineless wannabe globalists who infest D.C.

64 posted on 05/24/2022 9:46:58 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

Stop saying “we/our” you dirty RuZZian.

Kazan is the name of a city in RuZZia.

Is that where you live?


65 posted on 05/24/2022 9:55:25 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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To: Sequoyah101

All hat, no battle.


66 posted on 05/24/2022 10:07:27 AM PDT by paulcissa (Politicians want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
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To: DesertRhino

“But these ridiculously large Russian hats, I have no idea where or when those began.”

The larger the hat, the more you can smuggle out of the military base when you leave for the day...


67 posted on 05/24/2022 10:13:15 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: tlozo

Always wondered if the Russians felt a bit silly wearing this ridiculous covers.


68 posted on 05/24/2022 10:27:26 AM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Big Brother Go to Hell

> SO, has humanity returned to World War 1/static, trench warfare, now that missiles so easily destroy aircraft and armored vehicles?

Nah, trenches are deathtraps too, just look at those poor entrenched Russians getting chased by sniper drones or targeted by drone observers for pinpoint artillery strikes. It’s going to get to the point that everything on the battlefield must be defended by a cloud of anti-whatever and counter-whatever automation just to be there. And the battlefield will be everywhere. Dystopia Uber Alles.


69 posted on 05/24/2022 10:29:13 AM PDT by no-s (Jabonera, urna, jurado, cartucho ... ya sabes cómo va...)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Airplanes get shot down.

Helicopters get shot down.

Drones get shot down.

Tanks get blown up.

Ships get blown up.

Submarines get sunk.

Humans walking on the battlefield get shot, gassed, burnt up, hit by artillery, hit by arrows and sticks and stones.

The answer to these issues?

Electric cars.


70 posted on 05/24/2022 10:40:59 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Lurker

How do I know? He is not a friend of mine.


71 posted on 05/24/2022 11:41:10 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: SpeedyInTexas; All

“Russia has lost 28,000 soldiers in three months of war in Ukraine, according to estimates by the DGSE, the French foreign intelligence services, confides an agent. “It’s a real berezina,” adds our source.”

https://twitter.com/Malbrunot/status/1528677763498094595?s=20&t=Bi0Maze0DYPr7x9H0xeg8g


72 posted on 05/24/2022 11:43:57 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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To: ought-six

Yep. I was at Abilene High in the 70s. Permian was the Termiator of Hope. They were unbeatable.


73 posted on 05/24/2022 11:52:23 AM PDT by Free in Texas (Celebrate diversity. Own firearms of every caliber. )
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To: NorseViking

“ How do I know?”

You said he isn’t dead. Now you say you don’t know.

Which is it?

L


74 posted on 05/24/2022 11:54:02 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is)
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To: DesertRhino

And there are a lot of munition launches which are done from planes that never leave Russian airspace - which is an additional part of the reason it was ridiculous to even consider trying to make the Ukraine a ‘no fly zone’.


75 posted on 05/24/2022 11:55:36 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Lurker

I generally mean that the story sounds like BS.


76 posted on 05/24/2022 12:00:25 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

“ I generally mean that the story sounds like BS”

You’re the most prolific provider of BS around here these days.

L


77 posted on 05/24/2022 12:01:51 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is)
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To: Lurker

Projection, projection...


78 posted on 05/24/2022 12:03:04 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: Sequoyah101

No capes.😁


79 posted on 05/24/2022 4:27:06 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Lurker

He’s only mostly dead.😏


80 posted on 05/24/2022 4:28:31 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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