Russia has placed a Ukrainian soldier on its federal wanted list for ordering the “destruction” of an advanced Russian spy plane earlier this year, according to Moscow’s main federal investigative body. This is the first acknowledgment from Russia that Ukraine successfully took out the aircraft.
In mid-January 2024, Ukrainian forces said they had shot down a Russian A-50 surveillance aircraft over the Sea of Azov. The loss was also reported by Russian military bloggers often used as sources of information when Moscow does not officially comment on the war in Ukraine.
Kyiv then said it had taken out a second A-50 on February 23, little over a month later. At least one Russian military blogger contradicted Ukraine’s claims, saying the airborne early warning and control was downed by friendly fire.
Russia’s investigative committee said on Monday that it had approved a “preventative measure in the form of detention” against Colonel Mykola Dzyaman, a commander in Ukraine’s military, in connection with the loss of a Russian aircraft on February 23.
The committee said the aircraft “was not intended for combat operations, had no weapons, and the flight was taking place exclusively in the airspace of the Russian Federation.”
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-a50-plane-ukraine-investigative-committee-1914060?piano_t=1
The committee said the aircraft “was not intended for combat operations, had no weapons, and the flight was taking place exclusively in the airspace of the Russian Federation.”
So fucking what! A military plane is a target in any war, it doesn’t matter if it’s flying, or on the ground. The whining is to cover up the inability of a plane to detect the missiles that destroyed it.
A gang of Nazis intent on genocide and the complete annihilation of a sovereign state has the temerity to accuse its victim of what it itself is doing.
Putler will take comfort from the fact the half the world support his genocide.
You either want to help Ukraine defeat a depraved murder gang or you don’t.
We know who the “don’t’s” are from the declaration in Switzerland.
Shitloads of them. Vermin.
“the aircraft “was not intended for combat operations, had no weapons,”
as with Gary Power’s U2…. it’s just a spy plane.