[ad_1] The chaotic moment a Ukrainian drone destroyed a Russian supersonic bomber has been captured and shared online.The images show a Tupolev Tu-2
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The chaotic moment a Ukrainian drone destroyed a Russian supersonic bomber has been captured and shared online.
The images show a Tupolev Tu-22M3 bomber on a military airfield in Novgorod region in Russian territory being immersed in flames.
The Tu-22M3 is a high-speed, long-range bomber crafted to engage targets, using guided missiles and airborne explosives to flatten enemy territory. The Tu-22M3 has been employed for several offensive operations throughout the Ukraine invasion, which has now lasted almost 18 months.
Russian officials were quick to brand the strike a “terrorist attack”.
“The Kyiv regimen carried out a terrorist attack using a copter-type UAV on a military airfield in Novgorod region,” the Russian defence ministry posted on Telegram.
“As a result of the terrorist attack on the territory of the airfield, a fire broke out in the aircraft parking lot, which was promptly eliminated by fire brigades.
“One plane was damaged, but there were no casualties as a result of the terrorist attack.”
Moscow said Tuesday it destroyed a Ukrainian military reconnaissance vessel near Russian gas infrastructure in the Black Sea, in the latest clash in the waterway since Moscow’s withdrawal from a major grain export deal.
Attacks by both sides have escalated in the Black Sea since Russia in July pulled out of the United Nations-brokered deal that allowed the safe export of Ukrainian grain through the shipping hub.
Russia has bombed Ukrainian port infrastructure in sea and on the Danube, while Ukraine has attacked Russian ships in its waters and the Crimean Peninsula, which was annexed by Moscow in 2014.
Russia’s defence ministry said one of its Sukhoi Su-30sm jets had destroyed the Ukrainian “reconnaissance boat” near Russian gas production facilities in the Black Sea.
It did not give details on what kind of boat had been destroyed, or where exactly the incident took place.
The incident came after the first civilian cargo ship sailing through the Black Sea from Ukraine recently arrived in Istanbul in defiance of the Russian blockade.
Moscow said last month that it would consider any ships nearing Ukraine in the Black Sea as potential military cargo carriers, following the grain deal collapse.
The defence ministry also said its forces had downed two Ukrainian drones, 40 kilometres (25 miles) northwest of the Crimean peninsula on the Black Sea.
– with AFP
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