"Incompetence at all levels": Video is said to show the crash of a Russian fighter jet - after take-off
Created: 09/15/2022, 09:33 am
By: Patrick Mayer
Two Russian SU-25 fighter jets over Ukraine.
(Archive photo) © Uncredited/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/AP/dpa
The Russian military suffered serious setbacks in the Ukraine war.
Now a fighter jet is said to have crashed on takeoff in Crimea.
Kyiv shares a video of the alleged accident.
Munich/Crimea/Kyiv – Russia is said to have lost 246 combat aircraft since the start of the Ukraine war.
At least that's what the Ministry of Defense in Kyiv claimed in a tweet this Wednesday (September 14).
According to the same source, a jet crashed last Sunday (September 11) after take-off over a runway in Crimea.
And thus without enemy action.
Ukraine war: Russian military has to put up with severe setbacks
This information cannot be checked independently - like so much news from the battlefields in the east of the country.
In any case, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense published a video on social media that is supposed to show the alleged accident within the Russian armed forces.
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The video shows two Su-25 ground combat aircraft taking off together at an airfield - albeit at high speed.
Shortly after the start, however, problems appear.
As both pilots make a left turn, a fighter jet quickly loses altitude and eventually crashes just short of a forest.
The Su-25 immediately catches fire and explodes on impact with the ground.
A huge fireball rises into the air, followed by a thick column of black smoke.
Ukraine war: Kyiv shares video of alleged Russian Su-25 crash
“Sunday morning in Crimea.
Another Su-25 crashed.
Incompetence at all levels.
Weapons in the hands of the Russians are primarily a danger to themselves,” writes the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense on the tweet, probably based on the heavy losses and setbacks of the invading army this September.
Because: Within a few days, the Ukrainian troops had recaptured 6,000 square kilometers of occupied land in the Kharkiv region.
Which even Moscow admitted.
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Ukraine war: Alleged accident video from Crimea cannot be properly verified
However, the video of the alleged Russian fighter jet accident cannot be independently verified.
According to the
Bild newspaper
, observers classify the image sequence and the temporal information as genuine.
However, the report does not explain who the observers are.
For classification: The Sukhoi Su-25 is a
Soviet-designed ground attack aircraft.
It entered service in 1981 and remains part of the Russian Air Force to this day.
The fighter jet is armed with a 30mm automatic cannon and a choice of air-to-surface guided missiles or unguided air-to-surface missiles.
The Su-25 was designed to support your own troops in the fight against enemy armored formations or artillery positions.
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