On Saturday evening, the Ukrainian Air Force reported that they’d shot down yet another Russian fighter jet.
“The East Air Command confirms the downing of a Su-34 fighter bomber. Unfortunately, only one,” Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk wrote in his 6 p.m. March 2 Telegram.
About an hour before that post, Oleshchuk had reported that the Ukrainian Air Force had fired on two Russian combat aircraft, a Su-34 and a Su-35 with anti-aircraft missiles.
“It is becoming more and more difficult for the invaders to fly, and we need more systems, more weapons to clear our skies!” Oleshchuk wrote.
The Ukrainian military has had great success of late knocking out Russian aircraft.
From Feb. 17-29 in engagements across the front, the Russian Air Force suddenly started losing aircraft and pilots to Ukrainian missiles at a disconcerting pace. By March 1 the Kyiv kill tally according to the Ukrainian military was 11 Su-34 attack jets along with two even more expensive Su-35 air superiority jets costing $85 million per airframe.
On Saturday, Ukrainian Air Forces spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said that the Ukrainians have not been seeing Russian A-50s, the planes that act as eyes for their bombers.
“Su-34 and Su-35 can no longer feel free. A guided aerial bomb has a limited range. In order to reach further away, you need to fly closer. It can be a one-way ticket to fly closer,” he said.
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@BizArklahomBoy, honest democratic elections at every level in USA
in rasshist country the ballotboxes are now already filled with ballots with only the name of that fascist vladolf putler checked and opposition is refused on the ballot, murdered, prisoned, exiled etc etc
@BizArklahomBoy, indeed every day thinking of how to kill these transvestites from iran because of their killing of women whose headscarf is 1 mm off
At some point, the US/EU/NATO proxy army in Ukraine is going to need to offer some sort of evidence of all these plane shoot-downs they keep claiming.
@BizArklahomBoy, he boygirl, they do on a daily basis, you troll, probably they dont tell you this information at your trollfarm in the gulag
proxy army? rasshist army, the socalled biggest nuke power is a proxy army of north korea, the transvestites of iran, where they get their ammo from,
sergay shogu was more reminding his gay brokeback mountain gay holidays that preparing his army well and good
@Rheinhardt Wilheim, so basically what you are saying is that all you think about is men dressed like women?
@BizArBoy,
What are you favourite things about your democracy?
I like that mine is designed to serve the needs of the people, not the leader. That if that leader fails to put the people first they can be voted out and replaced. I also like that it has rules preventing wannabe dictators from forcefully displacing the our legally elected laws. I like that the lack of oppression and corruption propels innovations that better out lives.
What do you and your loved ones like best about the putin "democracy" they live in?
@John, the USA is not a democracy, dumb dumb. The USA is a federal republic.
@BizArklahomBoy, This 2017 response from Austria's School of Economics seems fitting:
"The claim that the United States political system is "a republic, not a democracy" is often heard in libertarian and conservative circles, and is typically invoked whenever the term "democracy" is used in any favorable context. This claim is generally invoked when the user believes one of the following:
"I don't like your idea, and since it involves aspects that are democratic or majoritarian, I'll invoke the republic-not-a-democracy claim to discredit your idea."
"A majority of the population appears to support this idea, so I will invoke the republic-not-a-democracy claim to illustrate that the majority should be ignored."
And from the US congress: "The Constitution establishes a federal democratic republic form of government. That is, we have an indivisible union of 50 sovereign States. It is a democracy because people govern themselves."
But the American are no doubt flattered by a russian MRGA troll like BizArBoy's stated concern over their chosen form of government.
Good Going , keep at the Russians until they're pushed back to their borders .
I like to start my Sundays with good news. Shooting down super expensive russian military planes is always good news
Now will the trolls shortly chime in to say these were only being flown by russia's untrained cannibal prisoners so thus no great humanitarian loss, or will they also concede the loss of some of their best trained, probably highest paid pilots. I guess it still boils down to no great loss to humanity either way.
More scrap SUcker 34 & 35 planes please.
Also happy troll fighting Sunday Ukraine supporters. There is an interesting story in APNEWS about this today, but I will save that for another more article relevant posting.
@John, wait till the Ukraines start with downing rasshists MiG, MisoGyn 23 up to 35