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.
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“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.
Being American does not demand fealty to Galician fascism.
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But in your case, being an American demands endorsing the slaughter of civilians, Mr. Orc Lover.
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?
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.
Stop saying “we/our” you dirty RuZZian.
Kazan is the name of a city in RuZZia.
Is that where you live?
All hat, no battle.
“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...
Always wondered if the Russians felt a bit silly wearing this ridiculous covers.
> 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.
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.
How do I know? He is not a friend of mine.
“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
Yep. I was at Abilene High in the 70s. Permian was the Termiator of Hope. They were unbeatable.
“ How do I know?”
You said he isn’t dead. Now you say you don’t know.
Which is it?
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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’.
I generally mean that the story sounds like BS.
“ I generally mean that the story sounds like BS”
You’re the most prolific provider of BS around here these days.
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Projection, projection...
No capes.😁
He’s only mostly dead.😏
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