Over the day of the confrontation with the Wagner PMC mercenaries, the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation lost 13 crew members of helicopters and aircraft.
Military retired aviator Ilya Tumanov, author of the propaganda telegram channel Fighterbomber, published such calculations.
Specifically, eight crew members were killed as a result of the destruction of the Il-22М11 airborne command post.
According to the active duty military pilot of the Russian Aerospace Forces, editor at the Helicopterpilot Telegram channel, three crew members of the Mi-8MTPR EW helicopter were also killed. It was shot down on the night of June 23 over Luhansk.
In addition to the above-mentioned two helicopters and aircraft, the Russian Air Force suffered the following losses in one day:
- Mi-MTPR damaged, reached the airfield “in holes”;
- Mi-MTPR executed an emergency landing;
- Mi-35 destroyed, but the crew survived;
- Mi-28 damaged but reached the airfield.
Generally, according to estimates by Russian military propagandists, 6 helicopters and 1 aircraft were lost. This is one of the largest single-day losses in 16 months of war against Ukraine.
It is possible that the Wagnerians will not suffer any punishment for the destroyed equipment and the killed military, as they received security guarantees through the Belarusian dictator Lukashenko.
On May 13, in the Bryansk region, the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation lost at least four aircraft that were ambushed by Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners. On that day, the Russians lost two Mi-8 helicopters, a Su-34 bomber, and a Su-35 fighter jet.
All this destruction and Wagner walk away with no punishment. A woman holding a ‘No to war’ poster in Moscow will get sent to the slammer for 15 years.
Once, they even arrested a person in Moscow who was holding up a blank sign. This is mafia land!
Maybe it had fuck Putin written on it in invisible ink.
When you are a top-floating shit nugget in the cesspool, you can easily get away with murder.