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The Su-35 fighter jets of the Russian Air Force formed a tight safety net around Mr Putin’s plane as they escorted him all the way from Russia to Abu Dhabi, landing at the commercial airport there.
26 December 1950 – A USAF RB-29 Superfortress was shot down by two Soviet Air Force MiG-15 "Fagots". [1] 13 October 1951 – An Italian Lockheed P-38 Lightning was shot down over Yugoslavia. [1] 6 November 1951 – A US Navy P2V-3W Neptune of VP-6 was shot down by a Soviet Air Force La-11 "Fang" over the Sea of Japan near Vladivostok.
The Russian defence ministry said six Russian crew members and three Russian soldiers had been on the Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane shot down near the Russian city of Belgorod near the ...
Western military analysts also told BBC News Russian that video taken of the crash indicated that the aircraft was shot down. [53] France Info reported that according to a French military source, the aircraft was hit by a US-made Patriot air defence battery operated by the Ukrainian army. [9]
2023 Wagner Group plane crash. On 23 August 2023, an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet with ten people onboard crashed near Kuzhenkino in Tver Oblast, approximately 100 kilometres (60 mi) north of its departure point in Moscow. Among the victims were Yevgeny Prigozhin, Dmitry Utkin and Valery Chekalov, the key figures of the Wagner Group, a ...
The Ukrainian air force shot down a Russian early warning and control plane that can spot targets up to 650 kilometers (400 miles) away and a key command center aircraft that relays information to ...
American officials later said evidence suggested the aircraft had been shot down from Russian territory. [52] On 16 July, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine reported that at about 13:00 local time "terrorists" used MANPADs against a Su-25 jet which was performing a flight mission in the ATO zone. According to the report, the airplane received ...
Henry Austin. Updated January 24, 2024 at 12:06 PM. Russia on Wednesday accused Kyiv of shooting down a military transport plane, killing all 74 people on board including 65 Ukrainian prisoners of ...