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The Air Force of Ukraine lost another aircraft in a rare aerial battle. Last night, Russian Su-30M shot down Ukrainian Su-27. Ukrainian pilot died as a result of the battle.
The result of the aerial battle was confirmed both by Russian and Ukrainian military officials.
The 831 Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Air Force of Ukraine reported that Ivan Bolotov, a 24-year-old captain of the Air Force of Ukraine, was killed. He has been fighting since the beginning of the war. No other details were reported by the Ukrainian side.
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The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Ukrainian Su-27 was shot down by Russian Su-30M.
According to Russian reports, immediately after the destruction of the Su-27 fighter jet of the Ukrainian Air Force, the Russian military intercepted radio communications of the Ukrainian command. Speaking in Russian, they discussed the loss of the aircraft and what reason to declare as the official version of the crash of the fighter; for example, the failure of the hydraulic system.
The destroyed Su-27 belonged to the 831 Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Air Force of Ukraine based at the Mirgorod airfield in the Poltava region. The Ukrainian military uses this air base to launch strikes on the Russian territory. It should not be excluded that the Su-27 in question could be shot down when targeting Russia with NATO missiles. Ukrainian forces also largely use Su-27s as bombers to launch JDAM-ER, ASC-250 HAMMER and GBU-39B SDB bombs.
The Russian aircraft probably used the R–37M ultra-long-range missile. According to various reports, the Su-27 was shot down at the distance of abou 130 kilometers,, which is less than the range of these missiles. The bord radar of the Russian Su-30M can detect their targets at about 370 kilometers.
the fate of all banderites
ukraine stand the same piece of shit as soviet union , a big big misery with great great weapons people should eat weapons
bolshevik thieves and murderers. why do you think the ttotskyite kagan/nuland clan used usaid money to kick maidan off?
you’re thinking of the united states.
please tell the rest of the world s-f why ukraine still has fixed wing fighter jets 4 years into this conflict?… are they in the same places where the drone(s) are manufactured (both inside and outside of russia) that are “also” finding target(s) “assembled” inside the russian federation???… dare i ask… perhaps the kremlin midget needs to pay his intelligence agencies more money along with his fighter pilots???
don’t worry your simple little head about such matters. this war will soon be over, and guess what? you will not be on the winning side.
furthermore dearest conan (ha), i wonder if you have ever been to the donbass yourself? have you ever talked to anyone there yourself even? if you had you would realise that nearly all ukrainian citizens there are backing russia and do not wish to end up vassals of the us, or europe.
not disagreeing. and i pray that the eastern donbas becomes whole again. my question is why on mr. putin’s watch did his security services allow the eastern ukraine to be infiltrated by western (chief among them) u.$., u.k. and i$rael in that order during his 25 years in office?… and is it being cleared out with his blessing to be replaced with russian dual national(s) now living in i$rael?…
zzz, everybody falls asleep from you message.
you are responding from tel aviv.
being brain dead like you makes it all the more easy. heheheh
where’s your other brain cell, gespacho stupo today? is it soup day at the berlin bumwerks?
or pissed off with uncritical dogmatism.
do you believe your own lies?
well, obviously you do so maybe you should author a ‘lying for idiots’ book.
«this war will soon be over», in the next 20 or 30 years. by the moment, on this war, even kim jong-un is eating trumps at breakfast.
use what brains you have. this poster is quite cynical now with this drawn out mess. all political actors, both sides, remain preciously untouched ? he/her is not some atlantic council troll.
keep up with reality cm – ukraine was left with many old russian jets they are maintained in ukraine /rebuilt etc and russia continually bombs their workshops in ukraine .i am sure sf wont disagree with the truth.
but there shouldn’t be a run way to fly them off of… let alone a drone that will get airborne or a bridge and road system that hasn’t been turned inside out between the western and eastern half?!!!
i would agree with that .i would be a bit more aggressive but its the way russia is playing it and long term its paying off.
how many soviet war plane bunkers were built into mountain ranges across ukraine during the cold war? answer that question for yourself and stop wasting our time with neady rants crying about why putin this, why putin that…
please answer the ultimate question… is crimea, odessa and all the other prime real estate in east ukraine being turned into a 3rd home for russian j**ry “under new management”?… and is it really any different then let’s make a deal in syria???
poland gives them old jets in exchange for them shooting the ukrops that try to cross the border into polackia.
in spite of the jokes, poland isn’t stupid. they see poles about to overthrow their government over so many ukrainian ‘patriots’ invading their country. you might even say that duda’s in deep doodoo.
its a wonder they did that as ukraine killed and massacred many poles in volhynia and eastern galicia during ww2 involving stepan bandera . poland used to own a part of ukraine going back in history and many in poland still want the land back.
poland has a perpetual martyr syndrome only to be matched by the jews.
duda is in very deep duda… poland is run by a coupe gov, that came to power in the vacuum of a nato bombing of the polish gov plane on route to russia that was essentially a decapitation strike. doodoo boy is going to be replaced by the minora fire fighter of poland…. muha ha ha
maybe because ukraine is big. in 1991 irak aviation survived the coalition 100,000 sorties, in 1999 serbian survived as well the most part of their aviation against nato.
jewtin and zelensky are playing a board game with goyim lives.
the answer is easy, but complicated. ukraine is a huge country, it is easy to hide planes there all over the place. for example, the strategy of finland and sweden is to move fighters into the forest and camouflage them when war breaks out. from there they take off along normal car roads that are designed for this purpose. so it is difficult to locate everyone.
no doubt, the su-27 was on its way to intercept another civilian aircraft.
another one bits the dust. well he dies knowing he gave up his life for dictator zelensky!
de ce mai exista caramizi la acea baza aeriana? de ce are pista, de ce are cladiri?
hai sa vedem daca mai pune botul ursoaica 🐻 la planul de pauza de inarmare angelica 3! curbele europene nu s sunt departe sa propuna.
that’s the longest air to air kill. us-uk-nato sisi pilots must be soiling their panties.
how stupid am i? i had an image of the russian pilot using cloud cover to sneak up behind the ukrainian. hollywood for you! 130 kms away. how much time do you have to react? i’m a coward i would have ejected before the missile got within a 100km.
if you were in an f-35, you’d have ejected before your radar even spotted it.
i’ve heard that with those ejection seats, you might be better off riding the flaming fireball to the ground.
finally the true identity of the “ghost of kiev” has been revealed… will zelensky honor the pilots life in his castro green puppet uniform …using hasbara word scramble …is the only question left.
the pilot is off to be planted in the ukrainian garden of bandarite flags… when russia captures the rest of the us coopted ukraine, those head stones will line the bottom of pig trofts…
the question is is this war false or were all those were we saw the usa destroy the defences of multiple countries within weeks with air forces beeing gone within days in some cases hours. were all the usa wars rigged and did their enemys nerver really fight?
yea yea. and the us ultimately lost
ideas why the runways are not completly destroyed? how many su does ukraine have left?
as far as su aircraft is concerned in 2024 ukraine has =12 su-24–17 su-25-26 su -27 in active service .
because the goal is killing slavs. the usa would have destroyed every airport/runway in the country on day one and then annihilated odessa’s ports. after that would begin the destruction of all power and water facilities. once the people are cold and hungry they betray their nation and side with the invaders. iraq is the best example.
su series of planes can take off from a highway located near a bunker, or from germany were many are kept…
ukraine’s position is so dire even the heroes in this movie are dying. ukraine needs a leader who has the legal authority to negotiate a ceasefire otherwise russia will be liberating odessa by june
within range of newer r77 or certainly r77m
the sukhoi su-27 is a soviet-origin twin-engine supersonic fighter aircraft introduced into service with the soviet air forces in 1985.