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Posted on 05/08/2022 5:44:38 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Terrifying video footage captured the moment the Ukrainian Bayraktar-TB2 drone annihilated the Russian Mi-8 transport helicopter on Snake Island. In the chilling black and white footage, human figures can be seen leaving the helicopter moments before it was blown up. The video was published by the Operational Command South.
They said: "We cannot stop doing this.
"We are driving the enemy out of every piece of our land, even from a small island, from the sea, and even from the air."
Meanwhile, another Ukrainian drone took out a Russian landing ship near Snake Island which had been supplying Vladimir Putin's troops with anti-aircraft missiles.
Ukraine released a video claiming to have destroyed the large Serna-type Russian ship in an air strike.
Ukrainian official Anton Gerashchenko later said: "Enemy units remaining on Snake Island remain without air cover and will be destroyed and burned out like cockroaches or locusts."
The attack comes just days after Russia lost two fast-attack Raptor crafts just off Snake Island following a devastating Ukrainian drone strike, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claimed.
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I've seen it with my own two Airdale eyes.
From the blowback I got on post # 25 I guess Russian ships aren’t capable
By now it might be P-8 Orions....ladt time I checked the P-3 eas in sunset.
Just sayin’.
Any ship with a flat deck.
The Mi-8 has about a 400 NM range without external auxiliary fuel cells. So, even more with this cells.
Snake Island is about 180 miles west of Crimea. Which makes that flight and mission absolutely doable from Russian- controlled Crimea.
So I’ve given you two absolutely plausible scenarios now.
From the photos I've seen of Russian cruisers, destroyers, and frigates, they all have helo access on the fantail.
I saw a night video video of a transport next to a rapter ship. It had people moving about and a missile hit and you could clearly see one person flying up and off to one side a long ways and after the blast there were still bodies on one side of the transport.
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Sorry, but it’s hard to take anything said by this ponce wearing a shirt emblazoned with the Russian imperial double-headed eagle as anything but pro-Putin propaganda.
The Duran is linked to Russian media and its owner is from Moscow. Believe this crap at your own risk.
And yet they pollute the site daily, following around trolling the ones who try to show the reality of the hideous invasion.
It’s a shame for sure.
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