Posted on 05/24/2022 7:38:53 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
In the sky over Ukraine, retired Major General of the Russian Air Force Kanamat Botashev was shot down and killed. Information about the death of the pilot was confirmed to the BBC by three former subordinates of Botashev, who kept in touch with him after the end of the service. They requested anonymity for personal security reasons.
Botashev is the highest-ranking pilot whose death became known . Prior to his retirement, he was the commander of an aviation regiment. The participation of such a high-ranking officer in air battles can speak both of how difficult tasks Moscow sets for military pilots, and of the lack of highly qualified specialists.
On Sunday, May 22, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced that a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft was shot down in the sky over the Luhansk region. The pilot did not have time to eject, the report said.
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Oh yes, blowing up a nazi dominated military that was attacking the separatists is good. They had it coming. They have pounded those people in the Donbass for 8 years for the crime of refusing to follow the new government after the 2014 coup.
All the western ukes had to do is wish them well and leave them alone, but they attacked in the east and started ethnic cleansing. I hope arty hits them till they stop.
I guess its a real bitch when you shoot big tubes at people for 8 years, and then the incoming starts.
What are you? Some kinda Ukrainian patriot or something?
I spend about equal time in Odessa (Texas), New Mexico, and parts of Colorado. Now buzz off you Nuland/Vindman/Soros fake Texan tool.
The Nazi theme is Russian propaganda used against unfriendlies - to them, unless you have taken a job with the FSB, you are a Nazi. So you can stop with the Orc BS about Nazis.
“In the sky over Ukraine, retired Major General of the Russian Air Force Kanamat Botashev was shot down and killed.”
Retired? They must be running low on experienced and qualified pilots if they’re bringing fighter jockeys out of retirement.
It is a sure indicator that Russia is getting desperate.
What are you? Some kinda Ukrainian patriot or something?
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What are you? Some kind of paid FSB propagandist? Or do you just recite their propaganda free of charge like a sucker?
Okay, if I had to wear that silly clown hat I’d want to die, too.
“It was the hat that killed him. Got caught in the slipstream and broke his neck. Those hats have always impressed me as outrageous.”
If you think the Russian hats are ludicrous, just check out the North Korean hats!
You didn’t answer my question.
Is he dead?
L
You are an idiot joke.
SO, has humanity returned to World War 1/static, trench warfare, now that missiles so easily destroy aircraft and armored vehicles?
Bite me troll, hobbit, or whatever you Harry Potter kids call yourselves. Being American does not demand fealty to Galician fascism.
“I did not know our Army ever had those type of hats.”
They were the standard “dress” headwear for the US Cavalry back in the mid 19th century. Strictly parade stuff; not campaign wear.
Looks like the long-discredited liberal MSM has moved on trying to convince us all the Ukrainian “Ghost” is real
Go slobber Ukraini with your buddies Pelosi and McConnell
“And this guy was only bombing nazi forces if this is true.”
And you know this, how?
We’ve been regaled for days now about how the Nazis surrendered en masse or had been killed in place. Are they like cats, with nine lives?
The “NAZI!” trope has out-lived its usefulness.
“That neck protector is another thing I have seen. A metal plate on a chain around the neck. I saw that one recently in a photo somewhere that I can’t remember.”
As another poster said, it became a sign of command or leadership, and its wearer was an obvious target in combat.
It’s like a group of guys sitting on horseback surrounded by a bunch of flags. Enemy guns would be trained on that group quickly, as such a group would indicate “COMMAND!”
“I spend about equal time in Odessa (Texas)...”
Ah, the Permian Basin; the LLano Estacado. I had family in Odessa. Where high school football reigns supreme!
“The Nazi theme is Russian propaganda used against unfriendlies - to them, unless you have taken a job with the FSB, you are a Nazi. So you can stop with the Orc BS about Nazis.”
That’s a fact. Just as to Democrats anyone to the right of them is automatically a racist. The word has been so casually applied that it has become meaningless, if not outright comical.
“Retired? They must be running low on experienced and qualified pilots if they’re bringing fighter jockeys out of retirement.”
Maybe too many Russian pilots refused the jab and got cashiered, so old guys have to be brought back from retirement.
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