Ukraine on Sunday said its forces hit an ultra-modern Russian warplane stationed on an air base nearly 600 kilometers (370 miles) from the front lines, after its Western allies allowed Kyiv to use their weapons for limited strikes inside Russia.

Kyiv’s main military intelligence service shared satellite photos it said showed the aftermath of the attack. If confirmed, it would mark Ukraine’s first known successful strike on a Su-57 fighter plane, a twin-engine stealth fighter lauded as Moscow’s most advanced military aircraft.

In one photo, black soot marks and small craters can be seen dotting a concrete strip around the parked aircraft. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, the strike took place on Saturday at the Akhtubinsk base in southern Russia, some 589 kilometers (366 miles) from the front line.

  • @[email protected]
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    -3025 months ago

    Ah yes, the typical Russia bad post. You should be at least, more creative than a rock

    • @lennybird
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      765 months ago

      But this is just a news report detailing an event in the war… And plus, Russia is bad… So…

    • Flying SquidM
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      495 months ago

      I mean… Russia is bad. It invaded its neighbor twice, it makes being queer illegal, Putin critics keep “mysteriously” dying, the media is all state-owned meaning it only reports what Putin wants reported, the elections are fraudulent affairs…

      But apparently they have fresh bread in supermarkets in Russia. So says Tucker Carlson. So it’s not all bad.

      • @[email protected]
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        -405 months ago

        It invaded its neighbor twice

        Just out of curiosity, when did westerners started to have a problem with invading other countries? I ask just because of the fact that in the last 100 years you were always either the invader or sided with the invader. And now its all wrong. Could you care to point when this change happened?

        • @Spedwell
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          275 months ago

          Ah, yes. The famously singular “westerners” who all 100% agreed with every foreign affairs policy of their government over the past century.

        • Flying SquidM
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          95 months ago

          Are you saying that because Western countries have done bad things it means that Russia isn’t doing a bad thing when it does it too?

                • Flying SquidM
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                  65 months ago

                  Well it was a stupid question:

                  Just out of curiosity, when did westerners started to have a problem with invading other countries?

                  I’ve always had a problem with invading other countries. Why do you think I don’t? I was working in a protest camp against the 1991 Iraq War when I was in middle school. I marched against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in massive antiwar marches in Los Angeles. I have been protesting against Israel’s invasion of Gaza since it began.

                  I have the same problem with Russia invading Ukraine as I did with the U.S. invading Iraq.

                  Any other stupid questions?

        • @JigglySackles
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          75 months ago

          A people and it’s government are two different things. And frequently the government does not give accurate representation of its people’s desires.

          But let’s say the USA, because I assume that’s what you are insinuating by westerners, is 100x more evil than all other countries combined. Does that mean the Russian government isn’t bad? Nope. Truth doesn’t change based on the moral character of another separate unrelated entity. Even if that entity is worse and even if that worse entity is the one saying the truth.

          • @[email protected]
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            55 months ago

            I’m not a fan of the US, its imperialism, and its geopolitical meddling but even I have to admit that the last time they annexed something was in 1900, Hawaii. Two years earlier, Puerto Rico (from Spain).

            • Flying SquidM
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              105 months ago

              You do know that South Korea and Japan want those bases there, right? They don’t have to allow them. They are a huge boon to the local economies.

              They may be there because of a war, but they remain there because the people in those sovereign nations want them there.

              You know what military the sovereign nation of Ukraine doesn’t want on its soil? The Russian military.

                • Flying SquidM
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                  75 months ago

                  I would advise you not to violate our civility rule again.

                  Now-

                  Can you show any evidence whatsoever that the governments of South Korea and Japan are being forced to keep American military bases there?

                  Can you show any evidence whatsoever that their presence has been a net negative on either nation?

                  Can you show any evidence that the nation of Ukraine does want Russia’s military on its soil?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    -105 months ago

                    Sorry i tend to respond badly to stupidity. Wont happen again.

                    The mental gymnastics involved in beliving the japanese people wants troops from the country who nuclealy nuked them for no reason other than showing power to a third country is really out of my mental grasp. Maybe one day i will consume so much propaganda that i will be smart enough to understand things like that.

            • @JigglySackles
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              45 months ago

              Because neither of those are forced imperialist occupations.

      • @[email protected]
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        Lol, remember when a a band of mercenaries invaded Russia a year or two ago? The only reason this didn’t end in devastation for Russia is because Wagner called it off.

        A map showing the massive advances into Russia by Wagner.

    • @[email protected]
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      215 months ago

      Ah yes, the typical Russia bad post post. You could at least contribute something to the discussion.

      Sometimes when everyone thinks something is bad, it’s because it’s actually bad.

      • @jordanlund
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        Removed, civility.