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Incidents of Russians paying bribes to leave the military service are on a steep rise with the number of criminal cases for illegal deactivation tripling over the last 5 months.
Russian milbloggers indicated that the attack was carried out well behind the front lines, with an inexpensive FPV drone taking out a multimillion-dollar asset at an unprecedented range.
Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that any F-16s delivered to Ukraine would be shot down and have little impact on the battlefield in response to reports that the first fighter jets have arrived.
Have long-awaited US-made F-16 fighters finally appeared over Ukrainian skies? Wagner element sighted among troops in Venezuela; Ukrainian drone shoots down helicopter.