{"id":182494,"date":"2023-12-18T12:21:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=182494"},"modified":"2023-12-18T12:21:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:21:30","slug":"russian-warplane-shot-down-by-one-of-putins-surface-to-air-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/russian-warplane-shot-down-by-one-of-putins-surface-to-air-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian warplane shot down by one of Putin's surface to air missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Russian Su-25 was shot down by its own side in a new friendly fire incident, according to reports.<\/p>\n
It is suspected to have been downed by a Russian Buk-M3 surface to air missile system.<\/p>\n
Initial euphoric Russian reports said a Ukrainian attack Su-25 had been hit.<\/p>\n
But Ukraine’s air force commander General Mykola Oleshchuk insisted it was a Russian plane that was downed – by its own side.<\/p>\n
‘I can confidently say that it was not Ukrainian air defence that shot down the Russian Su-25 attack aircraft,’ he said.<\/p>\n
‘These were clear and coordinated actions of Russian anti-aircraft gunners, for which many thanks from the entire Ukrainian people.’<\/p>\n
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Recent pictures have shown a Russian\u00a0Su-25 pilot cheating death as the aircraft flies over a shooting BM-21 Grad MLRS<\/p>\n
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It is suspected to have been downed by a Russian Buk-M3 surface to air missile system (pictured in a file image)<\/p>\n
Russian reports later claimed that the plane had crashed flying low in poor visibility.<\/p>\n
The incident was near Yelyzavetivka, in Mykolaiv region, according to some reports.<\/p>\n
The friendly fire claim follows another extraordinary recent incident when footage caught a Russian Su-25 fighter almost downed by sustained fire from a Grad multiple rocket launcher.<\/p>\n
Miraculously, the plane was not hit in the dramatic sequence.<\/p>\n
In the most recent known case, Major-General Vladimir Zavadsky, 45, of Russia’s 14th Army Corps, was killed by one of his own landmines after being shot at with friendly mortar fire when he drove a military vehicle captured from the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n
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Crews of Russian Su-25 warplanes, one of whom was ‘downed by friendly fire’, according to reports (file image)<\/p>\n
In a separate incident, a Russian Su-34 bomber was damaged in a kamikaze drone strike on a military airfield in Rostov region, which borders Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Video showed the drone attack on Morozovsk.<\/p>\n
Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels showed pictures of the shrapnel-damaged warplane belonging to Vladimir Putin’s 559th Guards Bomber Guards Regiment.<\/p>\n