By means of Phelan ChatterjeeBBC News3 hours agoImage caption, An A-50 airplane all the way through an army parade (record picture)Ukraine says it has downed a Russian A-50 army secret agent aircraft – the second one such declare in simply over a month.The aircraft used to be destroyed between the Russian towns of Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar, Ukrainian army assets stated, over 200km from the entrance line.Emergency products and services reportedly discovered aircraft fragments in Kanevskoy District and put out a raging hearth.Russia has now not commented at the declare. Saturday marks two years since Russia introduced a full-scale invasion.The top of Ukraine’s Air Drive Mykola Oleshchuk thanked his carrier and armed forces intelligence for serving to to carry down the aircraft – a long-range radar detection airplane – on Friday and famous the incident coincided with a key Russian army vacation.”Congratulations to the occupiers at the Defender of the Homeland Day,” he stated on Telegram.Video shared on-line presentations the instant the aircraft seems to be shot down within the air, in addition to large flames and thick, darkish smoke apparently emerging after the crash.No less than one Russian military-aligned Telegram channel steered the aircraft could have come down on account of pleasant hearth. Fighterbomber wrote: “In this day and age it’s unknown who shot it down.”Ukraine remaining claimed to have shot down an A-50 on 14 January.A prior briefing from the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence stated that Russia most certainly had six operational A-50s in carrier.The planes, which detects air defences and co-ordinates objectives for Russian jets, can price loads of thousands and thousands of greenbacks to construct.Ukraine has struggled to make important advances towards Russian forces within the south-east not too long ago. In remaining month’s incident, Ukrainian military officers stated an Il-22 keep watch over centre aircraft used to be destroyed in addition to the A-50.
