Images posted on social media and analysed by BBC Verify show a Tupolev Tu-22 on fire at Soltsy-2 airbase, south of St Petersburg.
However, images posted on the social media platform Telegram showed a large fire engulfing a jet with the distinctive nose cone of the Tu-22.
While the destruction of a single aircraft will have little effect on the potency of Moscow’s current 60-strong fleet, the operation highlights Kyiv’s growing ability to strike targets deep inside Russian territory.
Kyiv has over recent months launched dozens of fixed-wing unmanned aircraft to attack Moscow, a journey of several hundred miles.
However, the Russian MoD’s description of the drone as a “copter-type UAV” suggests a cheap, commercially available device launched at short range.
BBC Verify confirmed the location of the Ukrainian drone attack on Soltsy-2 by comparing visual clues - such as the appearance of aircraft and bays - to historical satellite images of the airbase.
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Not sure anyone deserves to be executed by a door kicking squad of jackbooted goons just for posting stupid shit on the internet. Certainly arrest and investigate them but this shit is dystopian.
People post stupid ass shit on the internet. You don’t deal with it by summary execution from a deathsquad that kicks down their door you absolute psychopath. You’re defending and even advocating for extrajudicial murder. Are you surprised that your country is turning to fascism when this is what you the so-called left advocate for? You’re incredibly far right and don’t even realise it. When people advocating for extrajudicial deathsquads are supposedly the left of the country it’s no fucking wonder america is turning to fascism.
Dude, no, unless you’re aiming a gun at somebody, there is due process for you, otherwise rule of law is…uh…gone. Maybe next time a Trump gets elected, he’ll have anybody who writes “fuck Trump” online assassinated.
In countries where someone like that isn’t allowed to own guns, the cops show up and arrest him. In the US he pulls out one or many of his legally owned firearms and gets himself justifiably shot.
It has fuck all to do with that. Some in my family own guns. I’m not going to get someone kicking my door down and executing me if I said what he said.
I’ll be visited absolutely. But executed by a deathsquad? Fuck no. You’re out of your mind.
For anyone interested in giving aid, or who needs aid, I found this Maui disaster coordination spreadsheet shared on mastodon. There's both on-island resources and places to donate online listed.
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