Pro-Russian rebels have downed a military transport plane
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Pro-Russian rebels have downed a military transport plane
there is video of the moment the 'object' hit the il-76. it appears to carry on in a straight tajectory after impact. this seems odd for a manpad. lucky unguided rocket? some reports say it was gunfire, so all bases covered so far.
Edit: latest sources saying two empty Igla launchers found. that may explain one hitting, one missing - the latter being the bright object that carried straight on.
BBC News - Ukraine footage 'shows burning plane wreckage'
not a good escalation however it was brought down.
Edit: latest sources saying two empty Igla launchers found. that may explain one hitting, one missing - the latter being the bright object that carried straight on.
BBC News - Ukraine footage 'shows burning plane wreckage'
not a good escalation however it was brought down.
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Rumoured to be UR-76777, can anyone confirm?
Photo: UR-76777 ATI Airlines Ilyushin IL-76 by DAVID KENNEDY Photoid: 255401 - JetPhotos.Net
Photo: UR-76777 ATI Airlines Ilyushin IL-76 by DAVID KENNEDY Photoid: 255401 - JetPhotos.Net
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Ukrainian officials should close whole airspace over eastern part. now is closed up to fl260. Russian terrorists can easily hit passenger a/c.
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I hope you and your family are safe, not good things happening in your country
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isnt cargo aircraft "off limits" ? unarmed ?
Mind you, the convention also says we can do lots of nasty things if the enemy does particular things, but we don't as the media and the lefty's don't like it.
isnt cargo aircraft "off limits" ? unarmed ?
Here however we have an undeclared war, and I doubt if the pro-Russian "troops" who shot this aircraft down give much thought to the Geneva convention.
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So these "rebels" are not in receipt of Russian weapons...
Putin is stokeing this for all he's worth. Until the west gets serious, it will just keep going and getting worse.
Couldn't the Ukrainians just use the Chechnya solution, after all thats a Russian approved method? Oh wait the Ukrainians are civilized.
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"Use the Chechnya solution..." Even if you're being ironic that's exactly the thinking that propagated this dire situation. When the elected President was chased from office by a murderous mob we applauded the end result, if not necessarily the violence. And now our best "solution" on offer is genocide?
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Only a matter of time before a civilian a/c is shot down. The terrorist scum did it during the war in Rhodesia, the Hunyani and the Umniati, murdering over 100 innocent civilians, mostly holidaymakers.
When the elected President was chased from office by a murderous mob we applauded the end result
As reported by all the media the start was the President sending troops to shoot down unarmed protesters when he went back on his promises re the EU. (Why the Ukrainians are keen on the EU is another question).
There was also no looting or destruction of government buildings after the President fled.
Where does your 'murderous mob' come from?
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Fitter2, I remember seeing footage of police being set on fire in the street with petrol bombs.
The correct way to act would have been for the people to wait until the next Presidential election in 2015 and then vote him out of office. All of what is happening in Ukraine now could then likely have been avoided.
The correct way to act would have been for the people to wait until the next Presidential election in 2015 and then vote him out of office. All of what is happening in Ukraine now could then likely have been avoided.
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All of what is happening in Ukraine now could then likely have been avoided.