Just now, some foreign news reports that the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force personally announced that he had shot down the most expensive Russian anti-aircraft missile!
The Ukrainian Air Force destroyed a Russian A-50 in the Sea of Azov late Friday night and released a map showing that the plane had crashed into southern Russia, Sky News said on February 24. The commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, Mykola Oleshchuk, said that this was the second accident in which Russia shot down an A-50 plane in this month.
According to Ukrainian news agencies, the A-50 early warning device was hit by an airstrike in the city of Rostov, near the border of the Don River and the city of Kra**dar. The attack was carried out by a combination of Ukrainian air power and Ukrainian intelligence agencies.
Ukrainian intelligence also published the flight path of the Ukrainian army's destruction of the Russian A-50 early warning system on February 23. By all accounts, an A-50 AWACS aircraft was shot down over the city of Yeysk, and its flight speed and altitude were significantly reduced.
The latest warning was shot down by the Ukrainians, and although there is no official Russian response, the Russian side has confirmed one thing. Residents of the Armenian village of Trudova, Kradar Krai, witnessed the landing of an A-50 early warning device in the sky, Russia said. The local Emergency Authority for the South of Kradar was quoted as saying that Russia had found fragments of a plane in the wetlands and had launched a rescue operation.
On February 23, Greece** Pentapostagma reported that a Russian missile fired from Mariupol hit the A-50 early alert, which was being evaded, but was ultimately hit. The flight landed in the Tekla**dar region, hundreds of kilometers from the forward base, and outside the range of the American "Patriot" Ukrainian anti-aircraft project.
According to the Ukrainian Truth on February 23, the Ukrainian Defense Forces used an old Russian A-200 fighter jet equipped with S-50. The S-200 was developed 60 years ago and has been updated several times since then. Ukraine began attacking Russian territory with S-200 missiles in July this year.
This state-of-the-art Russian fighter plane, which costs as much as $350 million, is mainly responsible for long-distance reconnaissance, monitoring and navigation of Ukraine in order to carry out precision strikes on Ukraine. There are currently only a few such advanced early warning devices in Russia. The Russian-Ukrainian war has come to an end, and the Russian side has suffered heavy losses, even several drivers. Ukrainian military spokesman Andrei Yusov said that "this is a crucial day for us, we have destroyed such an important city." This special and very interesting joint campaign, initiated by Germany, will continue. ”
On January 14, Ukraine also announced that it had destroyed a Russian A-50 early missile and an Il-22 reconnaissance fighter in the Sea of Azov. Both the High Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny and the Commander of the Air Force Mykola Oleshchuk issued a declaration confirming the destruction of two main targets for air strikes.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Sabrina Singh recently said that the new wave of U.S. military support to Ukraine will focus on meeting the current needs of the Ukrainian military**, although the U.S. will provide Ukraine with long-range ATACMS-style long-range air defense systems as soon as it is approved by Congress. This is also the strength of the Ukrainian military forces to enter Russian territory and strike at its important targets.