Posted on 05/24/2022 11:30:29 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
A top Russian air force commander has reportedly been killed in the Ukraine war, delivering another blow to Vladimir Putin's invasion.
Information about the reported shooting down of retired Russian Air Force Major General Kanamat Botashev was confirmed to BBC Russian by three of his former subordinates.
On Sunday, May 22, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said a Russian Sukhoi (SU-25) attack aircraft was shot down over the Luhansk region and that the pilot did not have time to eject.
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Wagner is REALLY desperate if the dead retired general was one of their mercenaries.
I saw a report one of their downed jets had an old model Garmin GPS taped to the control panel.
Putin was paying the dead ex-pilot’s salary up until 2 days ago. Wagner is paid by Putin.
I don’t understand how freezers are so stupid.
During a time of war NO NEWS FROM EITHER SIDE can be trusted.
Period. Full stop.
I don’t who attacks more these days, soviets or freepers.
Whoever he worked for his fiery death is a good thing.
I hope it was excruciatingly painful.
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Wagner is still not Putin.
And Putin is not posting nonsense here every day like you do.
Get a proper job and stop being a Ukraine troll.
The hair splitting is absurd. Does not matter one bit if was a paid mercenary or not. The hard fact that he was there on Russia’s behalf is very damning evidence of how your boy Pooty is having a serious manpower problem.
Putin pays Wagner. They don’t work for Putin for free.
It’s a waste of time arguing with the REMFs.
Probably have a woke agenda where people are promoted based on physical characteristics and not qualifications.
But, you know, I just had a epiphany. Putin is doing this to eliminate his top military brass so they are off of the retirement roles and BTW now cannot lead a palace coup.
it’s the Chuck Schumer’s retirement healthcare delivery system. Send Covid-19 into nursing homes and save billions in healthcare dollars. Killed 18,000 nursing home patients at $600 per day over two years saves a lot of money. add prescriptions costs saves even more.
Putin did not have a Covid-19 crisis to eliminate an undesireable population as Schumer did, so he went to war with Ukraine
“ Why don’t you rejoice over that?”
Because the Russians did the invading.
That’s why.
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Yup, he posts a lot for a ten-month old account.
The good news for Pooty when he hires old geeezer pilots is they already have oxygen tanks in the planes. No need to try to jimmy rig how to get the wheel chair tank fitted into the cockpit.
You mean like how America invaded and took over large swaths of Mexico including Arizona, New Mexico, Texas etc etc?
See, now that’s funny.
Joe, why are you stealing AOC’s talking point ?
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