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A Ukrainian pilot was killed on October 1 after his MiG-29 fighter jet was hit by a Russian missile during a combat mission over eastern Ukraine, the country’s air force announced.
The pilot, Capt. Marat Redvanovych Mambetov, ejected from the fighter jet but did not survive, the air force said, noting that Mambetov was 25 and served as a flight commander with the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade, known as the “Ghost of Kyiv” based at Vasylkiv Air Base in the Kyiv region.
According to the air force, Mambetov had been carrying out missile and bomb strikes against Russian forces when the fighter jet was hit.
Ukraine had about 40 MiG-29A, MiG-29S, MiG-29MU1 and MiG-29MU2 jets in service before the start of the Russian special military operation. A year into the fighting, Ukraine received more than two dozen MiG-29G and MiG-29AS jets from Poland and Slovakia. It also took over several Azerbaijani MiG-29A 9.13 jets that had been sent for maintenance before the conflict started.
Ukraine has lost at least 56 MiG-29s, including four described as “damaged,” since the start of the Russian special military operation, according to a Wikipedia list of aviation shootdowns and accidents that is based on visual evidence or official confirmation.
That tally does not include the latest reported aerial loss, but suggests the Ukrainian air force has lost nearly all of its MiG-29s.
The Ukrainian air force didn’t provide much detail on its latest aerial loss. However, most of the country’s recent aerial losses were caused by Russian S-400 long-range air defense systems or R-37M long-range air-to-air missiles, typically launched from MiG-31, Su-35 or Su-57 fighter jets.
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i always thought that the average american is the dumbest human on earth. but now i think that the average european is the dumbest: they finance a corrupted, fascist dictatorship (aka ukraine) to “win” a war against a country that has the largest and most modern nuclear arsenal on the planet. no country (and not even the usa) can “win” a war against the russians. for more than 12 years the european tax payers are investing their last tax euros and their last saving to finance a loser.
the scientific term is boobus americanus.
the last dinosaur 😂
maybe they are a little more stupid than that, and “nuclear weapon” do not exist, but the thoughts of them can be used for to establish free mass murder. which basically is what russia also are doing, by kill kidnapped, but not “americans”. oceania, eastasia, eurasia. of course, by proxy 😂 if they all should kill two flies in one poff instead.
its a simple mathematical problem; to many russians get killed in wwii, but way to few “americans”, especially after the war, which they had financed, and then saved the nazis, and had them to send trick movies for over 80 years, and burn hiroshima and nagasaki by napalm.
apparently the number of us causalities in ww2 was kept from the us public who didn’t want the us to get involved, just as they didn’t for ww1.go figure as the americans would say.
at least the attack on pearl harbor was known in advance by the highest command. its always like this, stay in command by get people killed, and angry. but 9/11 was made by their own sweet commanders, and norad on vacation 😂
rest in piss you fought for the enemy of free people
in 2014 after the coup it was scumbags like him who were bombing civilians in donbass.
the only way that nazi will see the earth again is if he comes back as a ghost.
haben die banderanazis jetzt einen geist weniger oder mehr???
noch einer, der zu all den anderen hinzukommt.
israel will demand more ghost planes and pilots for sacrifice.
“the goal of the usa is, as in the first and second world war, to eliminate europe as an economic, technological, and geopolitical competitor, and the pathetic ‘elites’ of the european establishment bend over even deeper at the command of the ‘deep state’ and whine: ‘fuck me again!’” sonar21. of course ! at least satan are now localized to his real location, mordor, north america, with saruman in moscow.
well, i guess he really is a ghost now. rip.
the ghost of kiev: too tough to die, too dead to live.