In this March 5 video (shared by "Ukraine 24" TV), the #Russian Navy pilot Major Alexei Golovetskiy confesses how he flew on his SU-30sm on a bombardment mission over #Mykolaiv area but was shot down by the #Ukraine missiles. [Translation below⬇️]
[2] Rus. pilot: “Today, on March 5, I took off [from Saki airfield in Crimea] and received coordinates where to fly. After I verified the coordinates several times, I realized that they are behind the border on the territory of #Ukraine. I flew there and began guarding.”
[3] Rus. pilot: “I guarded the area [over Mykolaiv province in southern Ukraine] and conducted reconnaissance. We didn’t find generally anything. There were no targets, I mean no target marks left on the ground.”
[4] Rus. pilot: “There were no radio-electronic interference against us. After I turned around to fly back to the airfield, suddenly our communications were jammed so we couldn’t talk to the command anymore. Then the missile hit us, and another one. We ejected.”
[5] “What weapons did you carry?” – “On our SU-30, we had 2 missiles R-77 [The Vympel R-77 missile is a Russian active radar homing beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile] and 3-4 bombs FAB-250.
[6] Rus. pilot: “We didn’t use our weapons. We didn’t have a flight mission. We were told simply to stay at the 6,000 m altitude and conduct reconnaissance. With me here Captain Alexey Kozlov.” The END.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
