Russian soldiers accidentally shot down their own plane

Following the sinking of one of their own ships just a few weeks ago Russian ground troops shot down one of their own planes , a $36 million SU-34 bomber , video shows the plane is now on the ground.

A $36 million Russian strike aircraft was reportedly accidentally shot down by Putin's military, according to Ukrainian media on Monday. Video uploaded on Telegram by the Ukrainian military's Strategic Command appeared to show the aircraft's damaged remnants. According to reports, the plane was shot down close to Alchevsk, a city in the Luhansk region, where the battle is now concentrated.

Accidents happen.

a reply to: gortex

Ha ha ha ha ha.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sorry if I appear to be making light of this mate.....but it is funny.

a reply to: gortex

It gets worse:

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a reply to: gortex

It happened twice in the past week.

a reply to: tamusan

Sounds like someone is nervous.

Cheers

Excellent!
Finally some good news!
I guess this means the war is over and we can celebrate the defeat of Russia.
No more worries about this escalating to WWIII and nuclear war, whew, we dodged a bullet, or should I say an ICBM?

It wasn't an accident.

a reply to: Freeborn

It's no laughing matter, mate.

Side splitting uncontrolled hilarity, more like.

This simply isn't true, if it was true, our very own Russi.... ahhh never mind.

Hooray!

originally posted by: elevatedone
This simply isn't true, if it was true, our very own Russi.... ahhh never mind.

Makes me, and a few others wonder where Russian Troll is?

Didn't please his master enough maybe.

Russia has controlled the airspace over Ukraine since this conflict started. So I'm supposed to believe these soldiers all of the sudden forgot this fact and also forgot to use their IFF devices before engaging?


Oooook...

originally posted by: JAY1980
Russia has controlled the airspace over Ukraine since this conflict started. So I'm supposed to believe these soldiers all of the sudden forgot this fact and also forgot to use their IFF devices before engaging?


Oooook...

Well, they probably have run out of.."best and brightest"..so..

a reply to: JAY1980

Have they really? Apparently not. They have been noticeably absent.

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

They'll be waiting for the official party line to be issued from The Kremlin before issuing their denials/excuses/false accusations etc.

It was a gesture of goodwill!

Two this week.

It could have been a non accident as mentioned in this thread. Perhaps a Ukrainian conscript from the temporarily occupied regions.

Or Ukraine did it.
Which is worse for Russia?
Incompetence or incompetence?