There were 10 people on board.
In the Russian plane shot down on February 23 < /strong> long-range radar detection A-50U had a crew of 10 Russians – all of them died.
Ukrainskaya Pravda reported this with reference to its own sources.
According to the source, all 10 Russians on the plane died. Among them are five majors, three captains, an ensign and a lieutenant.
It is known that military transport aviation has seven long-range radar detection aircraft. There were no victims on the ground from the plane crash.
Recall that the commander of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Nikolai Oleshchuk reported the downing of a unique Russian aircraft radar detection A-50U over the Sea of Azov.< /p>
The Main Intelligence Directorate also confirmed the information about the downing of the A-50U aircraft. According to Ukrainian intelligence, a new modernized version of the aircraft was shot down; its cost was $350 million.
“A sharp drop in speed and altitude of the downed A-50U aircraft was recorded near the city of Yeisk,” the department noted.
The media write that The Ukrainian Armed Forces used the S-200 air defense system to hit the plane. According to the plan of Soviet engineers, it was the S-200 complexes that were supposed to shoot down American strategic bombers – carriers of nuclear weapons, while at the same time other targets – less noticeable and low-flying – were already more difficult to shoot down.
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