Posted on 05/29/2023 1:56:17 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
The Ukrainian air force has been ... busy. With a pre-war force of just 125 or so fighters and bombers, the Ukrainian air arm defended the sky over Kyiv during the heady early hours of Russia’s assault on the city in the spring of 2022 and then, after that assault collapsed, shifted its attention to the front lines in eastern and southern Ukraine.
In 15 months of hard fighting, the air force has lost at least half of its pre-war jet inventory—and scores of pilots. But amid this violence, one small community had been relatively idle: the section of the 7th Bomber Regiment that handles the service’s reconnaissance missions. The air space over the Ukraine battlefield has become too dangerous for manned recon flights.
Working closely with the United Kingdom, the Ukrainian air force has equipped at least some of the recon section—which flies two-seat, supersonic Sukhoi Su-24MRs from the regiment’s base in western Ukraine—with British-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
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All the pre-war bombers and recon planes—as many as 16 of the former and nine of the latter—belonged to the 7th Bomber Regiment at Starokostiantyniv air base.
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When the U.K. government decided, back in February, that it would supply the Ukraine government with its first air-launched cruise missiles, the 7th Bomber Regiment’s Su-24s—specifically, the Su-24MRs—were obvious candidates for carrying the munitions.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
After Forbes published this article yesterday, Russia attacked Starokostiantyniv air base in western Ukraine and reportedly destroyed 5 Su-34s.”
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You omitted the best part. Those five aircraft were modified to mount Englands Storm missiles…what a shame Vlad keeps targeting all the western welfare.
Another good source is Dima’s spread sheets….
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18WfJv1_DOlFOzvjh6iT1N8ltDvaCeWu1cPK_eaHKCR4/edit
…..Vlad is specifically targeting the Foreign Fighters ( Mercs), “ reducing” is an understatement.
“They should blow up real good as Russia is forced to escalate”
Russia is forced to escalate its invasion. Just like Hitler was “forced” to invade Poland. Nazis by any other name.
—> Or if that nation doesn’t WANT to “resolve things”.
Russia tried for years.
—> It is interesting that you skip the first step: RUSSIA’S INVASION!
That wasn’t the first step - it was the last option.
—-> There is no other side.
Perfect demonstration of the Zeeper mind!
How the West Double-Crossed Putin The West Prepared for this for 7 Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQzRtyqyIUk&t=1053s
The first couple minutes is worth a listen. (If you are opened minded)
Russia tried for years.
I.e. let us keep the land we stole!
Nonsense! Ukraine was no threat to Russia and everyone here knows it. Stop shilling for the Russians.
No such thing was happening. Nine years later and it still hasn’t happened even in areas controlled by Ukrainians. No one is killing Russian speakers for being Russian speakers. So why do you keep lying?
Lying is all they got....
“Funnily enough it seems that most Ukrainians East of the Dneiper speak Russian. They are still there, or at least those who have not fled westward in fear of ... the Russians.”
Yep, they were waiting to be liberated by Russia, and millions have been now. So it worked out for the best, in the end.
“All that would accomplish is to allow the globalist homo Pedos to complete encircling Russia.”
Russia “Surrounded”? By homos no less?
That right there is some funny stuff!
“No one is killing Russian speakers for being Russian speakers.”
If the Western Media IGNORES the 14,000 or so killed in Donbass, then I guess it didn’t happen?
Question: Do you think the Holocaust really happened? Many people also claim that didn’t happen. Ask Turkey about Armenians, or Rwandan’s...
“You forgot to mention the bayoneting of babies on church doors. Please stop with this Russian nonsense.”
Or the burning to death of 50+ Russians in an Odessa Church by Neuland’s bunch.
I know, if we say it enough, then it ‘never’ happened.
“You omitted the best part. Those five aircraft were modified to mount Englands Storm missiles…what a shame Vlad keeps targeting all the western welfare.”
I agree, NOT FAIR!!!
Clearly you haven’t paid attention to the news.
—> Nonsense! Ukraine was no threat to Russia and everyone here knows it.
Not ukraine. Ukraine used as a tool of the globalists.
At this point they should.
Ukraine needs Russian Nazis to stop their latest genocidal war of choice and go home to Moscow.
Logical conclusion: Ukraine needs a miracle.
If you are referring to the events of 2014, 46 pro-Russian protesters died. It happened in the Trade Unions House, not a church, after a fire broke out in the building to which the pro-Russians had fled. The clashes between the pro and anti Maidan protesters actually started when a pro-Russian gang attacked a pro-Maidan rally. Street clashes then escalated with attacks on from both sides. In the end, pro-Russians fled into the Trade Unions House. The two sides were throwing petrol bombs at each other. One of these started a fire in which 46 people died. This was not a planned pogrom against innocent Russians seeking shelter in a church which you are trying to portray. Again, Russian hyperbole to try to justify their invasion.
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