Posted on 01/15/2024 5:16:12 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Ukraine said on Monday that it downed two Russian military command aircraft over the Sea of Asov, saying it had carried out a 'successful' mission against Moscow's forces.
Officials said the country's air force took out an A-50 radar-detection plane worth £260 million, as well as an IL-22 aerial command plane, as they flew over the Sea of Azov on Sunday.
The Sea of Azov lies between Russia and Ukraine, but Moscow controls its entire coast after seizing large swathes of southeastern Ukraine during its invasion and annexation of Crimea in 2014.
'Minus an enemy long-range radar detection aircraft, A-50, and the aerial command centre Il-22!' the air force said.
'The special operation in the Azov region was successful,' it said on social media.
Ukraine's commander-in-chief, Valery Zaluzhny, said Kyiv had 'destroyed' the planes.
'I am grateful to the Air Force for the excellently planned and conducted operation in Azov region!' he said on Telegram.
A senior Ukrainian politician and the deputy head of the country's parliamentary national security committee, Yuri Mysyagin, said:
'At about 21:00 [on Sunday], Ukrainian units fired at two aircraft of the Russian Air Force, namely an A-50 AWACS aircraft and an IL-22, located over the Sea of Azov.
'The A-50 was shot down, and the IL-22 was shot down, but was in the air and trying to get to the nearest airfield, but disappeared from the radar, after the descent began, in the Kerch area.'
Moscow did not comment on the claims, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov telling reporters he had 'no information' about the incident and that further questions should be directed to the defence ministry.
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I was working in W. Germany at an Air Force base a couple of years after you were there. I traveled everywhere I could go, but I passed on going to Berlin simply because you had to pass through Soviet controlled E. Germany.
I have a fear of going to a place where the PTBs can arrest you and lock you up forever and no one can do anything about it or do anything to free you. I stay out of Washington DC now, too, for the same reason.
At least in the 20th century we still understood the marxist stuff as being the evil that it is and we fought against it wherever it wanted to spread itself, too. But not now.
It was only a matter of time, I guess, a generation or two just as foretold, before we would lose that understanding and be overwhelmed … and then “what were once vices are now habits”.
And so now here we are, just like the album cover said, and it’s getting worse.
Reports: "Both planes landed safely"
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Luckily, Putin was onboard one of those aircraft and took over the controls !
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