“Three Russian Su-34 tactical bombers were shot down in the southern direction on December 22,” Ukrainian Air Force Commander General Mykola Oleschuk announced in a telegram.
Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, spoke about the issue. – We received the report immediately. Now we can reveal a little secret that it took a long time to hunt them down. These planes have become a threat to our soldiers, he said.
The statements of the Ukrainian military were confirmed by the Russian channel “Fighter Bomber”, which is linked to the Russian Ministry of National Defense. The editors of the channel admitted that there were war losses. They also suggested that the Russian bombers were shot down by the Patriot Air Defense System.
Ukraine in the second year of the war. Corruption, political infighting and the boiling frog
Today, Ukraine resembles a boiling frog, which does not realize that as the temperature gradually rises, it is about to lose its life. As war becomes an everyday occurrence, the old pathology returns: we experience first-hand the corruption of the border guards and watch the brutal fights of Ukrainian politicians like soap operas. The condition of the army is also not good. All this pushes the country into Putin’s hands – writes Onet’s Ukraine correspondent Marcin Wierval.