Moscow - The Russian Defense Ministry has offered its comments on a statement made by Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) spokesman Andriy Lysenko, who claimed that two Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi-25 airplanes, which crashed near the village of Dmytrivka in the Donetsk region on Wednesday, were allegedly shot down by a missile fired from Russia's territory.
“As they seek to further mislead the public and divert attention from
the catastrophe of Malaysia’s Boeing-777, the fantasies of
representatives of the Kyiv authorities deserve to be included in some
red book of military aphorisms,” a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman
said on Thuesday, July 24.
“A recent statement made by the spokesman for the National Security
and Defense Council of Ukraine, Colonel Lysenko, was no exception. It
mentions a couple of Ukrainian Su-25 airplanes that crashed near the
village Dmytrivka in the Shakhtarsk district of the Donetsk region,” he
said.
“According to Lysenko’s words, not only were these airplanes shot
down from Russian territory, which is a ridiculous claim on its own,
they were allegedly brought down by one missile launched from an air
defense missile system of a “powerful type” previously unknown to
science,” the Russian ministry official said.
“Given this progressive dynamics, the next “sensation” from military
professional and simply “colonel” Lysenko will be a follow-up to the
story of one surface-to-air missile hitting two airplanes – one in the
morning and another one in the evening,” he said.
Lysenko said on July 23 that two Su-25 assault airplanes of the
Ukrainian Air Force had been shot down near the village of Dmytrivka in
the Shakhtarsk district of the Donetsk region by a missile fired from
Russian territory.
A video showing the site where one of these planes crashed was posted online later.
