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On December 22, the Ukrainian military reported the destruction of three Russian Su-34s in the area of Krynki in the Kherson region. So far, Russian sources shared footage confirming the loss of at least one aircraft of this type.
According to preliminary reports, at least one Russian aircraft was shot down by the US-made MIM-104 Patriot air defense system. The fate of the crew is yet to be revealed.
The search and rescue team came to the area of the crash on the Mi-8 helicopter:
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The Ukrainian military, coordinated by NATO ‘advisers’ likely staged an air ambush, similar to the operation they launched near the Russian border seven months ago. On May 13, 2023, 4 Russian aircraft were shot down in Bryansk region by the Patriot air defense system from the territory of Ukraine. 11 Russian pilots were killed. LINK
The Ukrainian military can arrange such ambushes only in rare cases, so that Russian intelligence does not detect precious US air defense systems deployed near the front line. However, in the case of success they result in heavy losses to the Russian Aerospace Forces.
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The Ukrainian military is forced to constantly change the areas of deployment of foreign air defense systems. On December 5, a Su-24M tactical front-line bomber of the Russian Aerospace Forces was also reportedly shot down during its combat sortie over the Black Sea. According to Ukrainian reports, the bomber was shot down by the US-made MIM-104 Patriot then deployed near Odessa. LINK
Today’s Kiev victory is not a coincidence but a very timely operation. Today, the Dutch government announced preparations for the delivery of the first batch of 18 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.
However, the prime minister noted that Ukraine first needs to meet a number of other criteria, including requirements for personnel and infrastructure, for the delivery of the F-16 to take place.
The dominance of Russian aviation in the air was one of the main circumstances that disrupted Ukraine’s counteroffensive. Today, Kiev is trying its best to convince Western sponsors that parity with the Russian aerospace forces is possible. Attacks by Ukrainian UAV on Russian raer airfields and ambushes on aircraft with US air defense systems indicate that Russian aviation has become one the main target for the Ukrainian and NATO military. The Ukrainian military is trying to show the effectiveness of deployment of NATO air defense systems near the frontlines, in an attempt to improve their reputation ruined by several successful Russian strikes. In the case of supply of F-16 fighter jets, some their successes will become an important argument for Western warmongers in favor of continuing paying for the Ukrainian military and fueling the war.
imagine if russia had sent a handful of saboteurs with $400 fpv drones. there’d no longer be any patriots. but alas. maybe some day.
yes. very much is hide and seek.
i never wrote that.
jens holm
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no imagine if the pussy russians actually carried out their threats for once about crossing red lines! if any other country was at war, and another nation was supplying your enemies with weapons that were killing your soldiers on the battlefield, any other nation besides dumb poo-tin would consider them a party to the war, and would bomb them, but then again i guess russia knows better!
urkaine joining nato was a read line… no nato base in crimea! what say you jackboot? seems to me you don’t understand the slow roll of how russian’s do their thang! they do it all by the law, read a book or two and learn. the msm fog has encrusted your mental. decalcify your pineal and reboot.
it is much easier to wait until all these nations appear in the grey zone and get finished off there. in this way it is a controlled war where rf is in total control.
lgbt coward hillbilly must lick mulatto boot in oregon village
the patriot ads is a huge hunk of sheet! do scud missiles come to mind, flip flop fighters, lol? “patriot successfully intercepted 24 missiles out of about 85 attempts”. they couldn’t stop saddam’s scuds, but somehow they are a game changer against russia, lmfao…! blind pigs find an acorn every now and then.
wikipedia proves ukraine destroyed 346,990 russian migs yesterday
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i rot me mudder but she not rit bak
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cnn says it was 382,458
lol. try harder fool!
yes this is unfortunate, yet it amuses me how kiev reacts and the western media such newsweek and forbes, smh 🤦 russia can easily replace however many aircraft were lost.
kyiv get new haywagons from neder farms that shut down this week.
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i never thought i would agree with you for once, seeing that you are such a radical, pro-putin fanatic! yes russia can easily replace those planes, but the simple fact is you pro-putin shrill, is that so late in the war, this should not be occurring! if poo-tin and his forces would have done a better job in conducting their s.m.o. no russian planes, would be getting shot down, because everything would have been destroyed by now!
the stars and stripes represents the satanic government military industrial complex, not the people.
the russian mod admitted (one) loss? impossible. russians do not suffer losses.
nice to see the ghost of kiev still flying. next year in donetsk city for bandera days?
pretty soon he will retire , russian planes getting scarce now . eh
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one f-16 can take out whole squadron of migs. i copy dat from ben hodges tweeter.
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the us army suffered its highest monthly casualties in world war 2 in april 1945 fighting german forces. russia will continue to suffer losses but the outcome is inevitable. the question is where the russians will advance to.
m biyd – i am not saying that you’re lying, but i at least question your claim. to my knowledge usa suffered the highest losses in the battle for the hurtgenwald, near aachen, schmidt, vossenack – between 40.000- 60.000 dead and seriously wounded in roughly 2,5 months (late sept. 1944 – mid dec. 1944) of heavy fighting in that forest.
scott ritter mentioned it a couple of times. i was surprised by his comment so i looked for a potential source but couldn’t find it. he was demonstrating that a defeated foe could still inflict serious casualties. i discovered a battle i never heard of before fought in the east in april 1945 at bautzen. the germans inflicted a serious defeat on a russo-polish army there. thousands were killed by the germans which supports ritters point.
high tech will always win.
germany had v1, v2 ballistic and cruise missiles, me262 jet fighters and fritz guided anti ship missiles, they lost.
britain, usa nor the soviets had anything like that.
because they didn t have them in the right numbers. me262 came to the battlefileld in 1944 – when germany was already low in all kinds of fuel. all the other gear you mentioned too was available yes, but just in very small numbers. to fight usa+uk+udssr at the same time is not comparable to ru federation fighting tiny little ukraine, my friend.
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zelensky is master chess player. he sacrifice 600 pawns every day and win pat on back from sean pennis.
jens loves sean’s pennis!!!
albright, zelensky, blinken, nuland, sean penn, jens, all jewish warmongers and zionists.
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surely was shot down by manpads as days ago we have seen videos of su 34 in low flight attacking ukrainian positions.
…i don’t think it was 3 jets, it was probably 18 jets! 😁😁😁
modest as the ukros are, they have only made 3 jets out of it, after all, it’s christmas…
russkies no have jets. dey have sopwith camels they buy on antique roadshow in bristol.
well done 👍 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
i never wrote that. 👍 mowhh mowhh
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fake news porkies! 2 patriot systems were blown up with their nato counter body parts…
you and yours are fake news eh
how many tattoos you got? i think the hitler portraits are the coolest.
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ha ha ha imagine if we give ukraine a bunch of our good modern equipment lol. russia is going down. eh
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canada only has 3 tanks left and they only started out with 10 to begin with.
what modern equipment canada has? you live on american throwaways, canukie.
ha ha . they only get some of the stuff that fails our standards and our standards are pretty low as it is. the rest of that stuff we sell to rwanda.
sounds more su-25 downing, but it is possible ukraine got lucky against an su-34. not a lot to show for all the months of nato air-defense assistance and weapons packages.
calm down everybody and go to andrei martyanov´s smoothiex12.blogspot.com. brazen lies flying around spread by ukropropaganda and, allegedly, “russian sources”. the beast is dying. it´s her last breath.
don’t go everyone, this link gave me a virus and stole my banking credentials and logged in and transferred all of my money out of my account! i have reported this user to the f.b.i. and hopefully they will arrest him and make him return my money! i just cann’t believe, that people like him, actually exists in this world, who would do something like this! he took everything for me and i have nothing left! you should be ashamed of yourself, user: xsayarsa
and now you are lying, motherfucker. i would teach you a lesson or two.
i have been frequent visitor to that site for two years and nothing like that ever happened to me and others.
fucking ukrojew. idi v pizdu !
it´s been almost two years and people are still so gullible and vulnerable to lies. shame.
no creditable news source has reported this, except for the ukraine mod which 99% shits out false information. so take it with a grain of porky salt….
good news for holiday. love seeing russia latest junk getting blown to bits by old 80s us tech
merry christmas vlad
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dear south front, there is 0 zero,zil, nada, not a single piece of evidence that shows that the su 35 that got shot down ” if that even is real” was struck by a patriot, a nasam, an s300 or by accident, so dont get ahead of events and correct this bs article.
this is why not to use the rf massive transport planes here with 800+ soldiers on board. kiev is waiting for this because they are going down anyways.
moron amerikunty sodomized by goat herder donate 900 billion$ weapons to superior goat herder
in past 7 days—24 ukrop jets destroyed ….incompetent amerikan hillbilly humiliated again
more and more i am believing that russia dragging its feet in this special military operation is a mistake. they should have just gone with overwhelming force and ended it quickly, i believe the losses wouldn’t have been any more than they are now..
i have noticed that the f16 are not flying around belgium and holland’s air space so probably already delivered. they have been flying over theses 2 countries since start of august and there not anymore?