IIRC, didn’t they have a number of incidents where SU-25s couldn’t get where they were supposed to go in time because they couldn’t climb enough to clear the mountains?
That’s exactly correct, which either shows how brazen the Russkies are to spread such lies, as if they either think we’re stupid or don’t care if we believe them or not, or how stupid whoever they had on duty for propaganda/disinformation was at the time.