Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 18, 2014 0:18:03 GMT 12
I saw the headline on Google and opened it for a look. I read the article, looked at the picture, and came away from it bewildered. So, was it a jet, a rocket or a tank (as pictured) that shot down the plane??
Russian jet ‘shoots down Ukrainian warplane’
Thu Jul 17, 2014, 11.34
Kiev military says plane on military operations was hit by rocket strike
A pro-Russian separatist from the Vostok (east) battalion poses for a picture atop a T-64 tank in Donetsk. Photograph: Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters
A Russian jet shot down a Ukrainian SU-25 fighter plane that was on military operations over the east of Ukraine, where government forces are fighting to quell a pro-Russian separatist rebellion, a military spokesman said on Thursday.
The plane was brought down on Wednesday night by a rocket strike and the pilot safely ejected, Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s national Defence and Security Council, told journalists.
www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/russian-jet-shoots-down-ukrainian-warplane-1.1869389
Then I saw who the publication was and it all made sense...
Russian jet ‘shoots down Ukrainian warplane’
Thu Jul 17, 2014, 11.34
Kiev military says plane on military operations was hit by rocket strike
A pro-Russian separatist from the Vostok (east) battalion poses for a picture atop a T-64 tank in Donetsk. Photograph: Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters
A Russian jet shot down a Ukrainian SU-25 fighter plane that was on military operations over the east of Ukraine, where government forces are fighting to quell a pro-Russian separatist rebellion, a military spokesman said on Thursday.
The plane was brought down on Wednesday night by a rocket strike and the pilot safely ejected, Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s national Defence and Security Council, told journalists.
www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/russian-jet-shoots-down-ukrainian-warplane-1.1869389
Then I saw who the publication was and it all made sense...
