Separatists in eastern Ukraine’s besieged city of Slovyansk have shot down a Ukrainian Army plane today, destroying it and forcing the two crew members to parachute away.
Slovyansk mayor Vyacheslav Ponomaryov reported watching the anti-aircraft missile hit the plane with other people in the center of town, and said there was applause when the strike occurred.
Rebels identified the plane as an Antonov AN-30 surveillance plane, while military leaders insisted it was an AN-26 supply plane carrying “humanitarian aid.” The videos of the shootdown make it difficult to tell which is which, but there had been no previous indication of any humanitarian aid being sent into the restive east, which the interim government has declared held by “terrorists.”
Rebel fighters also attacked a military checkpoint on the outskirts of Slovyansk today, firing mortars at the troops there. The Ukrainian National Guard confirmed “dead and wounded,” but no specific numbers.
Earlier this week, military forces invaded Slovyansk, and at one point the military claimed over 300 rebels were killed and 500 wounded in a period of 24 hours. The toll has not been corroborated by anyone inside Slovyansk, and the mayor put the toll at 12 killed and a few dozens wounded.
AN-30 is not a plane to deliver "humanitarian aid" with. It´s purpose in both Russia and "Ukraine" (Banderastan) is surveillance. Not with two pilots and no crew, that wouldn´t make any sense, but with a crew normally consisting of at least 4 or 8 members, inlc. two pilots suggesting that just two survived.
As for the ridicolous "humanitarian aid" claim by the US supported Nazi junta and the Chocolate-Hitler posing as "president", they havn´t delivered ANYTHING, not an iota, but bombs, death and destruction so far, yesterday they deliberately bombed the people with Grad rockets and the electricity, water and sewage systems of Slaviansk and that was harldy a manifestation of care for what Kiev call "Terrorists" "Moscals" and "Bugs", the people of Novorossiya.
However, when you consider the CLOWNS armed with rockets, who couldn't tell a AN-30 from a AN-26 even at arms length, one has to simply deduce that anybody with anti aircraft weaponry in eastern Ukraine is simply a liability to civilian, as well as military aircraft, and should be immediately LIQUIDATED.
HOORAY . WELL DONE
HOORAY.WELL DONE.
One for the freedom fighters
A few more downed aircraft may stop the genocide.
Killing 300 and wounding another 500 of her own people is criminal. These responsible should be prosecuted for atrocity.
'Humanitarian aid' for the separatists?
The Kiev regime has merely adopted the FedGov propaganda phraseology.
and the bought-and-paid-for press will write the headlines in 48pt bold – and then copy verbatim what the WH sycophants pass them for release to the gullible masses.
It is becoming clear why the new President of Ukraine demands that "the rebels" must give up their arms. He is unable to achieve that by force. In fact, the bombing in East Ukrain turns out to have been a psychological blunder.
It's worse than a psychological blunder. Kiev is going to expend a boatload of resources in fighting what is quickly becoming a guerrilla war in its eastern provinces, resources it does not have. Ukraine, which is in the process of setting itself up for the IMF fleecing operation, is going to be further bled by a running ulcer of military costs.
Anti-aircraft missile? Doesn't sound very much like peaceful citizens making a democratic protest, does it?
Look what they're up against.
Freedom fighters. Trying to remain in control of their country.