Ukraine claims to have shot down Russian fighter jet in Donetsk region

The Ukrainian Air Force said it has shot down a Russian fighter jet in the eastern Donetsk region. Russian state media is also reporting the incident, without specifying the model or ownership of the plane. #CNN #News

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  1. Ukrainian air defenses have become quite formidable. That was a confirmed SU-34. Always a significant loss for the Russians to lose an aircraft of this type. Slava Ukraine!

  2. “Scale, scale, scale, scale. The magnitude of this war is incredible. The Ukrainians have 37 frontline brigades… The scale of this war is out of proportion with all of our recent thinking”..”this is very different from the past 20 years where we deployed smallish groups of people to conduct limited activities. Everything was quite predictable. The Idea of a large scale war like we are seeing in Ukraine just requiers different levels of readiness just requires different force models.for preperations, it requires different tactics and operations and it riquires different pieces of kitts. To return it as the focus of the alliance will bring some changes (difficulties)”
    “Hard power is a reality” – Christopher G. Cavoli, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)

    1. @What Do You Think…? Excellent work comrade, you may be useless in frontlines, but your wit running troll network makes my sphincter clench with pride!

  3. If you insist on dollar and cents, then remember that when the world’s third largest arsenal of nuclear weapons were given up, Ukraine saved the US $16.5billion annually on the American defense program! More than $470billion to date!

    1. @ProvokeRealFactsTruth yeah… So??? If it wasn’t for the US then all of Europe would be speaking Russian… It’s time for Europe to start pulling its weight and start being security independent… Oh we’re part of NATO… anyone attacks USA is going to save us … mentality has got to go… Barely any Europen NATO country has met the 2% of GDP for defense spending…

    2. @Dang nab itand Ukraine was part of Soviet Union. They could have kept those weapons but they were forced/agreed to give them up with a garauntee of their security.

    3. @edge-technology Ukraine is not a proxy by definition. They do not fight on behalf of anyone. They fight for themselves. Receiving aid from other countries does not make them a proxy. An example of a proxy war would be what was going on in Ukraine before this invasion with Russia funding and arming mercenaries in Ukraine. Russia was waging a proxy war.

    1. @Joao pereira do you want a catalog of truth?
      I can show you live feed. 😘
      We don’t need a dictator.
      We can see it happen as it happens.

    2. @Joao pereiraYet, here you are trolling and watching it. A little silly and dumb on your part.

  4. if bakhmut is indicative of the Russian tactics for offensives, then Russia is in trouble. Slow, grinding movements of mainly unsupported infantry is not how you achieve victories of any note on a strategic level. If this is how Russia intends to operate going forward, it will expend hundreds of thousands of lives and take years to just secure all of Luhansk and Donetsk.

    1. @Gabriel Alvarado .. you got os wrong.. the mujahideen the Russians faced were backed and armed by the US, they even had the lethal Stringer missiles. While the US was involved in a 2 decade long conflict with the Taliban, the Russians never armed or supported the Taliban. And all that BS about the US installing a government in Afghanistan was bullsh1tt.. everyone knows that the writ of that government was mostly limited to the capital Kabul area.

    2. @dan M that’s was after Russia invaded then they started aid. They had practice on Russia by the time USA got there

    3. ​@dan M guerilla warfare is much more difficult. How fast did America conquered Afghanistan? A year or a few months?

    4. @dan M Excellent point Igor, tell them how they failed in Afghanistan!!! (Do not bring us how we did there however…) My sphincter clenches for you and your new account!

    5. @Blue resolve Ukraine is not Afghanistan. You won’t do better against Ukraine with all the support

    1. @MidnightVinyl The US wasted trillions in the middle east. Where was all the concern about the money then?

    1. @The Duce I was born in the US but I also realize that Putin must be stopped or he will only continue to eliminate country after country. This is following the same pattern as WWII. By the way I do agree with you on the need for more food assistance

  5. I’m not Ukrainian, I’m not even European but I want to thank all the people who help and support Ukraine. I also believe it is worth noting that even though the war, right now, is in Ukraine, the battle is for ALL the FREE world, the West, the EU and NATO countries. Slava Ukraine.

  6. That’s not a jet fighter being shot down. This is a special maintenance operation for the jet.

    1. @HY Are you talking about Russia? lmao where did the money to upkeep all those tanks get used, because apparently it didnt go to that lmaoooo

    2. @pisac Senna My sphincter clenches for ALL my loyal faithful trolls! You may be useless in the frontlines, but your wit on all your accounts makes my sphincter clench with pride!

    1. ​@pale horse the us will be at war soon anyway, he can just wait for the draft 😂. We shoulda never got in it.

    2. @pale horse excellent troll work comrade, my sphincter clenches for you, you precious troll you 😘

    3. @Jim Jason Igor, switch accounts, you are using wrong one! 😡 Or just make a new one again, like you did with this one

  7. A Tribute to Ukraine 

    The Fight

    Where were you 
    when the walls came crumbling down.
    Fearing for our lives
    In our home towns.

    Where children once played 
    Laughter was everywhere
    We now find graves 
    Seems like only…we care.

    But now,
    We’re standing side by side 
    Defending arm in arm
    Praying for our lives.

    And now,
    We’re standing toe to toe
    Fighting hand to hand
    Dying for our nation’s soul.

    Instrumental 🎶 

    If we lose.
    If this was our last fight.
    I promise you
    We didn’t run and hide.

    Only one way to live
    Head high and full of pride
    What we would give
    Our blood and tears we cried.

    But now,
    We’re standing side by side 
    Defending arm in arm
    Praying for our lives.

    And now,
    We’re standing toe to toe
    Fighting hand to hand
    Dying for our nation’s soul.

    Instrumental 🎶 

    A burst of lightning 
    coming from the morning sky
    confuses all 
    We will not run and hide.

    But now,
    We’re standing side by side 
    Defending arm in arm
    Praying for our lives.

    And now,
    We’re standing toe to toe
    Fighting hand to hand
    Dying for our nation’s…..

    And then,
    There’s one thing that remains.
    Fight until the death 
    Fight for our Ukraine. 

    But now, 
    Our prayers were not met
    By those who stood by
    By those who would forget. .

    By Humble Driver

    thank you for reading humble poem ❤️ 🙏 and if you are interested in song please go to Humble Driver YouTube

  8. I believe *two bridges* in Bakhmut have been blown up and by the Ukrainians: A road bridge to the N-W, and a railway bridge to the C-E. Just below the latter I think that the *H-32* mainroad *bridge* still stands (way out for Ukrainians still on the Eastern side of the river.

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