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Successful Coup: Putin's First Bombing – On Russian Territory; It was hit by a rocket that flew 300 kilometers.
Stavropol – “Ukraine has the right to self-defense. This includes attacks on legitimate military targets outside Ukraine,” said Jens Stoltenberg – NATO Secretary General's statements following a virtual meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council aimed at a successful attack by Ukrainian defenders apparently against the air force. leadership; on its own territory.
Ukraine's defense ministry's intelligence service said a missile shot down a Tu-22M3 strategic bomber on a return flight after the attack on Ukraine. The bomber reportedly then crashed on a military airfield near Stavropol; That is, on Russian territory, bordering Georgia in the North Caucasus.
Russian Bomber Shot Down in Ukraine War – Ukraine Talks “Ambush”
Ukraine's Defense Ministry said on its website that the Tu-22M3 enemy aircraft was shot down about 300 kilometers from Ukraine, using the same means used to destroy the Russian A-50 long-range radar detection and control aircraft. Due to the damage, the bomber was able to fly to the Stavropol region, where it crashed.
die Ukraine Pravda Ukraine deployed an S-200 long-range anti-aircraft missile system against the bomber — thereby defeating Russia's air force with its own weapons. loud Newsweek Russia's first strategic bomber is now destroyed in the air; Newsweek Quoting Kyrillo Budanov, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Budanov also reported that Ukraine had been planning this “ambush attack” for a week.
Shooting down the TU-22: A painful loss for Vladimir Putin
The S-200 is a Soviet-made standard anti-aircraft missile designed to combat supersonic fighter jets at medium to high altitudes. Encyclopedia of Aviation writes In its latest version, the fifth, the missile can hit targets with a range of up to 300 kilometers and an operational altitude of 500 meters to 40 kilometers. The system was used in 1967 to achieve an 80 percent probability of success against high-speed Western aircraft, especially long-range bombers. The S-200 system is said to be highly resistant to radio interference; Since the rocket has an autonomous guidance system, it can no longer impact after launch, Das writes. Encyclopedia of Aviation.
“Ukraine is not defending the freedom of the West, but its own. It is very difficult, and peace in victory is unrealistic.
According to it Spiegel The loss of the bomber is painful for Russia, “because the stock of the old military machine is relatively small”: according to Vladimir Putin should keep the Tu-22. Spiegel Only 60 machines left. In total, Russia has lost around 100 aircraft in the war in Ukraine so far, the British Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday (April 20). Either way, these types of rockets are thought to do a lot of damage to the Russian invasion army. Ukraine Pravda Reported in February: Russian sources are said to have said that Ukraine will attack targets occupied by Russia and Ukraine with S-200 missiles. According to Russian sources, the Ukrainians have reportedly modernized these air defense systems to fire at ground targets with 5B28 missiles.
Enhanced Use of S-200: Ukraine Aims Missile at Ground Targets
Ihor Romanenko, former deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine responsible for air defense, confirmed that “Ukrainian soldiers are trained to attack ground targets with S-200 systems.” true wrote British Intelligence also informed about this XA channel of operations of the S-200 as an offensive weapon against ground targets. Various media talk about Russian or Russian-occupied territory being hit or targeted – for example the Crimean bridge, an air base in the Rostov region, Taganrog and the Kaluga region; However, these reports have not been confirmed.
The Russian city of Belgorod has also come under attack since late last year German wave reports and at the same time asking whether Ukraine would be allowed to attack Russian targets – possibly with German weapons as well. As stated therein DW Moscow complained that civilian targets were primarily and specifically targeted in a city near the border. The German wave Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg, an international lawyer from the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt an der Oder, quotes: In international armed conflicts, “no conflicting party has to limit hostilities within its own territory,” he says. “Rather, a legitimate goal is to weaken opposing forces and thereby attack these and other legitimate military targets.”
Central government's defense policy: Scholes' reluctance finds supporters
The use of German weapons to attack Russian territory continues to divide political camps in this country. The decidedly negative chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and retired Brigadier General Helmut W. Cancer found a supporter, he wrote in an essay. Online time It warned against long-range arms deliveries: “Ukraine is not defending the freedom of the West, but rather its own.” The magazine writes, “It's hard enough, and peace is unrealistic.” According to Kanzer, the assumption that Ukraine can restore its entire integrity through armed force is “a blatant loss of reality.” ” Based on. And: “A responsible defense policy to prevent harm to the German people should not follow this.”
However, after the recent meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg clarified that Western efforts to strengthen Ukraine's air defense are still small: “The problem is that it should be strong and comprehensive from Ukraine. Launching drones, launching various types of cruise missiles and sophisticated ballistic missiles. It has different systems like launching missiles. So Ukraine has NASAMS (National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System), it has IRIS-T (Infra Red Imaging System Tail), it has Patriot batteries, of course. So these are different levels of air defense systems , but they need more systems, more batteries, and all of these systems need more ammunition, and that's what we addressed in today's meeting.
Russian State Duma warns Germany against Taurus deliveries
In March, members of the Russian State Duma, the Russian parliament, warned Germany against equipping Ukraine with long-range weapons; Russia intervened in the discussion of the Taurus distribution with an express request to avoid anything that might make Germany a party to the conflict. This was the reason given by the Chancellor for rejecting the delivery. In January, a senior Ukrainian military officer actually announced in an interview that he wanted to bring the war back to Russia. By land, air and sea: The war in Ukraine would be won faster if British and other Western weapons were allowed to fire against targets deep inside Russia, Vice Admiral Oleksiy Nezhishbaba told a British news channel. Sky News.
The biggest victory of the Ukrainian armed forces was the sinking of a Russian missile cruiser in April 2022 – the flagship of the then Black Sea Fleet “At that time, Ukraine realized that it could defeat Moscow in this war,” said the vice admiral. “Modern war is a war of technologies, whoever wins in the technological sense wins,” Nezhishbaba summed up: “We want to prevent Russia from setting its sights on Ukraine again.”
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