• blackn1ght@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I wonder what the reason for the increase is? Are they attempting more flights and so there’s greater opportunity to shoot them down? Or are UA forces getting better at shooting them down?

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      1 year ago

      Oleksandr Shtupun, spokesperson for Ukraine’s joint forces south, told the UNIAN news agency that intensifying Russian operation of sub-sonic Su-25s close to front lines in support of Kremlin ground troop assaults has increasingly brought the single-seat aircraft into the range of shorter-ranged Ukrainian ground-based air defense systems that are able to shoot them down.

      https://www.kyivpost.com/post/22962