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Shocking but confirming story about the fighting value (or lack of that) of the Russian Paratroopers, giving extra context why the wheels came off the plan on day 1.

https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/ ... 92423?s=21

From the BBC this morning, but not (yet) verified: Posted at 6:286:28 Ukrainian military claims to have shot down four planes in a day In its daily update, Ukraine's Staff of the Armed Forces said it successfully struck down four planes, three helicopters and several unmanned aircraft belonging to R...

Another Russian Jet biting the dust?

https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/12-march- ... r-rubizhne

https://mobile.twitter.com/UAWeapons/st ... 7026725889

Another Russian helicopter, probably a new one, shot down. Reported as Mi-24/35, but not clear, could also be a Mi-8. Edit: looks like a Mi-8

Apparently something crashed in Belarus.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Ukraine_AF/s ... 9711260677

This time a Ukrainian Su-25 shot down, code 31.

https://mobile.twitter.com/UAWeapons/st ... 6644040709

And Russians reaching a milestone with more than 1000 pieces of equipment lost…with photographic proof…so imagine the actual losses.

Starfighter_F-104G wrote: ↑09 Mar 2022, 00:30

hammarö wrote: ↑08 Mar 2022, 23:49
The ghost of Kiev (MiG-29) shot down 6 Russian aircraft:

FAKE

Indeed this Ghost of Kyiv story is complete nonsense, a story made up by online gamers.
Total fantasy.

https://twitter.com/hochu_dodomu/status ... 9820891140

Two pilots floating down with parachutes. Pilots ejected after their aircraft was shot down in Bilozerka, Kherson region.
looks like one chute is not properly working.

From livemap:

Ukrainian Armed Forces report 2 Russian aircraft shot down at 20:30 and 21:10 near Kyiv

Another Russian Jet shot out of the sky, with footage of the SAM operator and his screen. Said to be a Su-30SM, but not confirmed.

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/15 ... 9097491463

michel N wrote: ↑07 Mar 2022, 13:22 RF-95070 is the latest confirmed Russian loss.
Shot down yesterday night over Kharkiv, confirmed as Su-34

Here is the picture:

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/15 ... 82/photo/1

Plane going down over Kharkiv, cannot see anymore what it is, just a ball of fire (confirmed in the comments that it was a plane). https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1500508564737122308 Short message this morning that UA Forces caught one pilot, “searching for a second pilot”. So deffo a (jet)...

hammarö wrote: ↑07 Mar 2022, 03:13 Mi-35P 24 blue RF-94966 2020 Dzhanov VKS cam ex 24 y

Here is the pic, caption says kill was probably made yesterday.

https://mobile.twitter.com/UAWeapons/st ... 0593248257

And to put it in a time perspective: the 15,000 troops lost in Afghanistan was in 10 years time. This is 11,000, in 11 days…

It is already unprecedented how much footage is available. And remember not everything can be filmed. In previous conflicts we almost never saw any footage or pictures of crashed aircraft. Might be some overclaims, but I think the losses are pretty close to the mark. Russians are flying in contested...