Thread by @bayraktar_1love

/1. Russian sources report about another loss of an A-50. As they say it was shot down in the same area in which the previous one was lost. As always Russians claimed it was a friendly air defense fire.

Russian media: “02/23/2024 Again A-50, again the same area. The enemy has nothing to do with it again. The launches were from the Mariupol area.”

/2. Presumably video of the Russian A-50 which was shot down over the Kanevsky district of the Krasnodar region, Russia.

/3. Locals of Krasnodar region share footage of presumably fallen aircraft debris (she says it was a fallen helicopter but it’s unclear if she is right)

/4. Woman in the video above mentions that aircraft debris has fallen in Trudovaya Armeniya village of the Krasnodar region of Russia. Approximately 210km from the frontline.

/5. “A Russian A-50 aircraft was destroyed as part of a joint operation by the General Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine and the Air Force of Ukraine. This was reported to by a source in the security and defense forces.”
LIGA.net
news.liga.net/ua/politics/ne…

/6. Another video of burning fallen aircraft debris in Trudovaya Armeniya

/7. Another Russian source about the downed A-50:

“A-50. Again. Again. Again.
Comrades, the problem is at a systemic level.
The resource of these aircraft is almost non-renewable.
The crew is a separate matter. The highest specialists. You cannot bring them from Central Asia.
Eternal flight, guys.”

/8. Another video of the downed aircraft over the Azov Sea/Krasnodar region area.

/9. Commander of the Air Force of Ukraine:
“An A-50 with the call sign "Bayan"!
I congratulate the occupiers "Happy Defender of the Fatherland Day!”
It is necessary to celebrate at home, and in such a way that the Bayan is not broken!

🤝 Thanks to the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence and everyone who ensured the result!

We continue to work!
🇺🇦 Together to victory!”
t.me/MykolaOleshchu…

/10. Traditional “eternal flights” by Russian source associated with Russian military aviation Fighterbomber:

“A-50 is lost.

It is currently unknown who shot it down. All assumptions go to the garden.
But 256 km from the frontline...

From this video it is clear that the crew had information that a missile was flying at them. They knew. They did what they could. What they should.

Eternal flight...”

/11. Flight route of the downed Russian A-50 published by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine
t.me/DIUkraine/3507

/12. First footage of the A-50 debris

/13. Another video of a burning A-50 debris

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1761121208089690449

/14. S-200 claim.

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1761133837352923175

/15. “According to the source, interlocutors at the GUR, all 10 Russians who were on the A-50 plane died. Among them are five majors, three captains, an ensign and a lieutenant.” - Ukrainska Pravda media.

A-50 crew:
•the commander of the aircraft- Major Borovykov;
•assistant commander - Major Chantsev;
•navigator – captain Provalov;
•flight engineer - captain Vasiliev;
•senior air radio operator - Ensign Khrulev;
•head of the calculation, head of the shift - Major Fedosov;
•guidance navigator - Major Rulyuk;
•guidance navigator – lieutenant Telmanov;
•senior flight engineer – captain Belov;
•flight engineer - Major Soldatkin.

pravda.com.ua/news/2024/02/2…

/16. Claimed board number of the downed A-50 appeared in the media: tail number – 42, RF-50610.


Initially built as the A-50 in 1988. On March 28, 2019, after being upgraded to the A-50U, it entered service with the Russian Aerospace Forces. t.me/dosye_shpiona/…