Ukraine 'shoots down' nuclear-capable Russian strategic bomber armed with cruise missiles

Ukraine said it shot down a Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber for the first time on Friday, destroying a warplane capable of carrying long-range missiles used to attack Ukrainian cities.
#Stavropol #Russia #Ukraine
The Russian defence ministry said the strategic bomber had crashed in Russia's southern Stavropol region, hundreds of kilometres from Ukrainian-controlled territory, as it returned to base after carrying out a combat mission.
It said the crash appeared to have been caused by a technical malfunction.
The Russian regional governor said the pilots had ejected, but that one of them had died.
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[@jesselivermore2291]

usually when airplanes get hit by missiles, theres all sorts of malfunctions happening.

[@swugjay7189]

Deep inside Russia... and these jets evade air defences by their speed. So how is this then a missile?

[@TauNomm]

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[@burritosls]

What's the missiles got to do with it? The plane crashed on the territory of Russia

[@tab8k]

Njet problem, is normal katastrof!

[@fokus5097]

Before war even for ruzzia, planes weren't falling down out of blue and so often. "theres all sorts of malfunctions happening." Doesn't look like that falling plane is healthy

[@Gorbyrev]

This video contains material that some viewers may find encouraging.

[@neilnelson7603]

Them don't complain when Russia cuts off power in Ukraine.

[@gont183]

​@@neilnelson7603don't complain when Ukraine cuts off oil in Russia.

[@Gorbyrev]

@neilnelson7603 Why? That woukd constitute a belligerent act of war against a foreign country.

[@jaxonl7810]

​@@neilnelson7603don't complain when russia has no more oil refineries

[@4X10S]

@@Gorbyrev Not when Israel does that apparently?

[@lylelaw1238]

Guessing "We are too stupid to keep our planes from crashing" is better than "The enemy shot one of our planes down"

[@theapple3160]

engine failure more likely than ukrainian missiles flying 300km

[@malamute11]

​@@theapple3160yes, an engine failure that started a fire on its tail! 😂😂

[@WezleyB]

Actually it's way more likely that they shot it down with their own air defense.. they have shot dozens of their own plans down..

[@theapple3160]

@@malamute11 the fire was directly on the engine

[@user-zo7ok2bg8b]

Speaking as a pilot, don't believe anyone saying it's a malfunction, especially as it's happening every week or two, with similar videos. A missile obviously destroyed the engines, cut the fuel lines which are spewing and flaming, and likely severed any cabling or hydraulic lines to control the elevator and rudder, otherwise the plane would have been gliding. The loss of power + loss of control can easily lead to a stall, which can then become a flat spin, and then...boom 🙂

[@tedcollins4684]

But made it 200km after, doesn't make sense.

[@TabTa6]

💯 a missile can fuse too early/late so most of the plane is untouched. a few fragments cut lines/get sucked into intake = unpowered glider within seconds

[@RaiO_o]

The Russian tank turrent have seen more air time than that aircraft

[@Tuuum72]

Нет больше в твоей ж...е

[@echetamadavidson9454]

Stale joke.... Give it a rest🤡

[@stevenhoward3358]

well that backfired!

[@jeffbenton6183]

Cpt. Frank McCoy approves of this pun!

[@nibson3217]

Ah yes a technical malfunction that cause the tail end of the aircraft to catch fire and send it in a horizontal spin. That’s what a plane looks like after being hit in the tail by a missile.

[@shuvashisshrestha7902]

Engine fire is a thing

[@sjishah]

Tailspin by a missile, I heard 1st time.

[@richardrichard462]

Definitely don’t find this distressing

[@zonnetjemaan6872]

🎉🎉🎉💙💛💙💛

[@stevo091]

Having a Cold beer 🍺 and 😂😂.

[@mariano7699]

Ten have another healthy shot of FREEDOM Covid Vaccin

[@briangriffiths937]

This plane has attacked it's last apartment block. $200 million worth of scrap metal.

[@Listener-xn3ww]

300млн

[@rodneywatson7855]

It was always a piece of junk scrap metal in the first place, after being built by the inept russian gangster defense companies. Now it is just a highly modified piece of scrap metal according to official russian news outlets.

[@patrickbrinkmeier1858]

300 million actually. Of course Russia will never admit it was shot down and will blame a crew member for smoking a cigarette like they did on the Moskva and they claimed that's the reason it sunk.....Lol

[@briangriffiths937]

@@patrickbrinkmeier1858 They have already claimed it was friendly fire. It's so strange how the orcs air defence can shoot down russian planes with ease. Yet miss a plane travelling a 1000km from Ukraine.

[@neilnelson7603]

Don't complain when Ukrainians don't have power for a while

[@indrahaseo]

that's prigozhin 2.0 lmao 🤣🤣🤣

[@jambo8442]

He's still alive

[@indrahaseo]

@@jambo8442 then is wagner still existed? after losing own headquarter and removed by putler lol

[@RaiO_o]

I can imagine the pilots screaming Shoigu! Gerasimov! As the plane spun towards the ground

[@kalmansovari6878]

Interestingly it came down like a chopper

[@PedroFerreira-ze5yp]

it´s a transgender airplane. It was born an airplane but identifies as a helicopter...

[@alexmoos6858]

This is a flat corkscrew

[@pewpewman._.3415]

It was stalled

[@jamesgrove5921]

With helicopters, they call it autorotation...

[@Watcher-ts3ql]

My friends. What we see here is clearly a Russian bomber intercepting a missile. Nothing special. Russians can make it all possible😂.

[@PedroFerreira-ze5yp]

"Some may find distressing"... Who? The ruZZians for sure, not me! 😂😂

[@JoeyBlogs007]

A shocking fall from grace ??? or disgrace ???

[@ericherman2637]

More like a fall from space

[@ghoulpn]

Many air defense missiles are proximity detonation weapons. This means they are designed to detonate within a certain range of the target if the missile detects a direct hit isn't possible. This detonation sends shrapnel through the target, creating substantial damage in the hopes of disabling the target, if not destroying it. The bomber certainly could have sustained such a hit and continued flying before the fire/damage grew to a point where flight wasn't maintainable.

[@patpierre7300]

Forcément , maintenant , il volera beaucoup moins bien !!

[@bobwoods1302]

A technical malfunction that caused a fire and flat spin? I doubt that.

[@tommissouri4871]

It happened to Maverick and Goose.

[@Luca_Sleepy_af]

@@tommissouri4871That’s a movie bro😭🙏

[@user-gy2xk4ot8f]

This plane crashed due to a technical problem 350 km from the border with Ukraine in the Stavropol Territory in the foothills of the Caucasus. Ukraine simply does not have such air defense systems to shoot down a plane at such a distance. The anti-aircraft missile had to fly through the entire Sea of Azov, Rostov region, Stavropol Territory to the Caucasus.

[@PelonMusk]

Was the "technical malfunction" a stinger missile being fired into one of it's engines by any chance? lol

[@zapfanzapfan]

No, that is the new vertical landing bomber...

[@lakeliving2013]

"A technical malfunction".. 😂

[@bassfan71]

It technically malfunctioned?? 😂

[@Patiesiiba]

Embarrassing to Russia! Fail!

[@theapple3160]

ukraines doomed

[@Schizofre]

Not really, this happens 0.001% of the time. Happens more often to NATO forces.

[@courierton9217]

The content is distressing for Putin, Iranian mullah and Assad.

[@wellbeing6198]

How shameful for Russia to lose so many men and equipments over Ukraine.. Imagine fighting against NATO?

[@fokus5097]

"Noo, we strong, we can win NATO. That falling plane was pilot fault, he was smoking in wrong place as everyone else"

[@dinipuh9889]

​@@fokus5097The distance from the crash site to the border with Ukraine is about 300 km, no air defense is capable of hitting a target at such a distance, at this time Ukraine declares that it shot down a plane at a range of 356 km, strange, isn't it? The official version of Russia: Leakage and fire of the hydraulic system. Considering that the plane was falling vertically downwards, the version with an air defense missile hit looks like complete nonsense.

[@user-lh1uu7cs9u]

​​@@dinipuh9889 possible. Ru planes crash even without missile.

[@waltersvg]

That IS NATO, dumbass.

[@dj17q]

@@dinipuh9889 Plane was hit much closer to border, flew back with tail between its wing (and on fire).....got confused and turn into a helicopter instead, and crash. As simple. The plane is....potato.

[@bewlaybrother4460]

Somebody's played a Blinder 🙂

[@senzubean27]

'Technical malfunction' like 'fell out of a window'

[@kesavanumahdewi4215]

Old crash video

[@solarpixiejournals]

It was doing an interpretive dance in preparation for the Olympics.

[@slavsh]

I think it was "Swan lake" ballet!

[@draganjagodic4056]

Those bad russian cigarettes...and even worse crew's habit to smoke during the flight...

[@ivanteo1973]

This video contains material that some viewers may find delighted

[@robertfrancis7767]

Hundreds of kilometres away from Ukraine very odd, drones are too slow Manpad fired from inside Russia possible. Or indeed friendly fire incident, it has not been unknown.

[@59ikm]

HAHAHA technical malfunction 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@saningradjaninbakkevoll7809]

I don't think that plane is falling down in one piece just second after was hit by cruse missile.

[@r.b6170]

Was it 'hovering' in the air before it was hit ??

[@everydaytrash534]

Technical malfunction damn genius 👍😲

[@NightOwlinNewOrleans]

Another one bites the dust.

[@josephenriquealvaradoardil2435]

Obviously, it's not a mechanical malfunction.

[@dato1106]

Anyone with a bit knowledge about those Aircrafts knows damn well that it wasn't shot down by an s-200😂.

[@Nperez1986]

Well not surprised...it's not like we ever had a very expensive bomber shot down, like our 117 in Serbia 😮 Can happen to anyone 😅

[@AnujKumar-zo1lw]

Its not shoot down its malfunctioning in engines led to the heavy fire in right wing 😂😂😂😂😂...

[@tot8858]

despite the horror of russian jetplanes, their design of wing, gravity fuselage were incredible. even without engine thrust they fall just like helicopter, sirkular

[@bernardlebel9097]

Un tueur du ciel en moins 👊👋

[@cholomackdaddy]

Wow. Talk about a stall.

[@jaxonl7810]

Looks like those russian shovels didn't save them

[@quinnard9750]

Ok Western know-it-all dipshit just remember u guys r the one who made up the shovel theory anyway.

[@Lokvidar]

Nuclears are that small, there is man capable to shot one from bazooka. The title is irrelevant to scare people again.

[@amgeneralbuilding]

They did not. Why make things up. Were not stupid

[@angelxtrme]

❤❤❤

[@vidinius12]

agree but how to explain the 100% vertical drop

[@Gorbyrev]

Loss of power, trying yo get to base, stalls then enters a spin.

[@jeffbenton6183]

​@@GorbyrevThat level of flames, though, is much more than the typical engine fire.

[@boxingsense3459]

​@@jeffbenton6183 The plane crashed more than 400km inside Russia, which is more than 650km from Ukrainian controlled airspace. Even the maximum distance of the Patriot systems is 150km. So how did they, shoot it down.

[@jimr3179]

@@jeffbenton6183 The flames were coming from the tail

[@user-zt1tq7uf1x]

This video was in internet at the beginning of the war lol

[@retsiembrU]

Its a plane with a mysterious soul

[@wouterkellerman4458]

Just listen to the instant military aviation experts here. I wonder if these same experts say the same when ukrainian aircraft crash.......

[@StPiter111]

There was one engine broke down on it. Those machines are old but fast😎

[@christianson6240]

Is this TU 160M?

[@brunosapateiro44]

we see a bomber falling down but no impact from supposed missile? what was the guy filming before it happen ?

[@Jin-Ro]

Hard to believe Ukraine shot it down hundreds of miles inside Russia.

[@emm_arr]

Ukrainians and anti-Putin Russians are everywhere.

[@proxyicarcus]

190km or 118 miles. That's a 1.5h drive by car... or a 5 min flight by a misscle lol. The plane was also flying towards the misscle so by the time it turned around (and their turn radius is horrendous) and started flying back it was hit.

[@dinipuh9889]

​@@proxyicarcus308km...not 190

[@Deathadder90]

​@@dinipuh9889S-200 has a 300+ range. Absolute range is unknown but planes have been shot down at distances of 330km. Same missile that knocked out two A-50s and an Il-22

[@dj17q]

@@dinipuh9889 Plane got hit closer to the border, flew back with tail between the wings (and on fire), lost all flight controls, nose up, stall and went into a flat spin. Plane is Potatoe.

[@merlin7766]

Why an earth would anyone think this is distressing? The world is going totally soft. Get a backbone people!

[@leonardbakers]

This didn't happen.

[@jaxonl7810]

Keep telling yourself that

[@sandorfule6946]

Mi szenvedés lessz ebböl! Majd jön az atombomba, aztàn sokáig lehet élvezni az áldott hatását!

[@charlesanzalone5846]

No ejection?

[@lg2058]

Ukraine "shot down" the bomber 400+ km from its border. OK.

[@morbo5061]

It is a rather large plane. So no AA could have struck it where it crashed but it had apparently just bombed Ukraine so maybe it took a hit from a smaller rocket like a manpad type maybe and limped along for a while before crashing?

[@drod3434]

Shot down or engine failure who gives a sh!t? The fact remains.

[@paololuckyluke2854]

Lacking spare parts?

[@puirYorick]

Cockpit crew was carelessly smoking a celebratory Cuban cigar no doubt? Nah. Better to say it was a technical fault. The smoking excuse is wearing thin.

[@iborg358]

Special scrapping operation

[@andybassett2]

400km inside Russia. No it wasn’t shot down. Engine failure

[@jaxonl7810]

Cope

[@HealzHS]

​@jaxonl7810 Sure, then tell us which air defense system that Ukraine has can fire more than 400kms ?

[@pandibbarman]

Well when a missile hits a plane there is always some kind of failure in the plane after that ☠️🤣​@@HealzHS

[@HealzHS]

@pandibbarman which air defense missile that Ukraine has can travel more than 400kms?

[@pandibbarman]

@@HealzHS it was just a joke bro

[@1973oiler]

Its a drop in the ocean.

[@ucsncinc]

Russian afterburners. Being literal.

[@luketarus2769]

Special technical malfunction

[@kreamcream1720]

it was not shoot down the plane crashed 400KM away from the battlefield Ukraine has no air defense system able to go this far just because they claim means its true , like that story of 4 S-400 somehow parked destroyed with one single missile

[@jaxonl7810]

Holy cope

[@fokus5097]

Cope overflow

[@ocnslr]

Headline says "armed with cruise missiles" but unlikely if the bomber was returning from a mission. Still good to see.

[@JustDontBeThatGuy]

Looks more like a B-2 american bomber tbh

[@thegermanfool8953]

The amount of dehumanizing in the comments is rather unsettling.

[@jaxonl7810]

Says the dude with ( bait ) videos

[@thegermanfool8953]

@@jaxonl7810 yeah, funny ain't it? Then again I haven't posted anything in years after getting out of that cringe phase.

[@VioIetShift]

Plane came down intact only tumbling on one dimension, damage appears restricted to the rear end, crew almost certainly ejected.

[@kaizersoze2606]

This was shot down by Russians not Ukraine, flight pattern would have to the same and earth curvature etc no way Ukraine shot this down from that distance just not possible imo but one less bomber to worry about

[@thurinaradan7135]

How did Ukraine shoot down an aircraft over 500km from the front line using an S-200 with a 300km max range?

[@jaxonl7810]

Cope

[@thurinaradan7135]

@@jaxonl7810 no answer I guess.

[@Karthikeyan.1010]

Corona is because of Saturn transit to Capricorn. Capricorn means crocodile . please don't think corona is because of enemy country.

[@Mopsyboy]

Oh dear how sad never mind

[@G0LGB]

Thanks for the warning there Telegraph, so upsetting to see any aircraft drop out of the sky...odd the footage starts there and not with any missile hitting it though...but i'm sure Ukraine never lies & did indeed shoot it down...with Nato toys, manned by nato troops, etc

[@jaxonl7810]

Holy cope

[@themuraoka]

cheap CG miserable work

[@The_Specialist.13]

Who's Ukraine ?!

[@gr83172]

The sovereign country humiliating russia. Btw, it should be “what is Ukraine?”

[@The_Specialist.13]

@@gr83172 I didn't know about that

[@georgewashingtom6516]

@@gr83172 1.- Ukraine never was sovereign. 2.- Russia is the one humiliating NATO because it's 30 countries against 1, and Russia keeps gaining ground

[@nicholasallande9371]

Before I say anything if this is friendly fire this is a whole new level forget the A-50 on the other side of the story what did Ukraine use

[@Mirakelmannen]

They probably used punctuation.

[@frankjames7272]

niga what? ​@@Mirakelmannen

[@tylerclayton6081]

Definitely looks like it got hit by a missile. Friendly fire 300+km inside Russia doesn’t make any sense. SAM operators should already know where that Tu-22M3 was and where it was going. They get briefed on this kind of stuff in advance. And they should have friend or foe identification capability

[@Erikson189Sven]

Yeah.

[@donfabadenga]

Slava Ukraine

[@sentowrite4562]

kgb has to work in europe

[@scottstevens2752]

Nelson laugh HAHA!

[@mumbaiskater4573]

thats the special operation of mr putin

[@w3vjp568]

Orc hell is getting crowded.

[@jetfighter200]

ukrops hell also

[@jaxonl7810]

@@jetfighter200 holy cope

[@lassel1344]

If that plane is shot down so far from Ukraine and Ukraine does not have anti-aircraft robots with such a long range, it leans towards NATO missile. If it's true.

[@jeffbenton6183]

NATO doesn't have many types of anit-aircraft missile which can reach so far. The only one I can think of would be the Standard Missile 6, which is usually deployed on warships. It'd be an interesting development if someone gave the Ukrainians that, but there are much more practical and versatile things they could send.

[@keith8609]

Maybe it was a missile fired from a Ukrainian jet

[@lassel1344]

@@jeffbenton6183It leans towards NATO when Ukraine does not have that capability, if that is true. We know that there are many NATO specialists in Ukraine who are being hunted by the Russian missiles almost every day. Often the buildings in which they live.

[@lassel1344]

@@keith8609 Perhaps. Ukraine has nothing like that as far as I know. Also, they don't get close to the front without running into problems with Russian air defenses. Do these have a range of just over 500 km? Then it is possible.

[@gr83172]

Continue… if it’s NATO… ?

[@lironba]

Slava Ukraini 🎉

[@janusz-kowalski]

Slava Polish Lvov Eagles, shame on banderist U-kraine

[@zonnetjemaan6872]

Героям Слава!💙💛💙💛💙💛✊✊✊

[@sergeykooch]

Solncepekam slava

[@Andariel083]

Украина сдохла. Украины нет. Запомни это .

[@notst-p1r4t36]

it was shot down with s-200

[@quinnard9750]

no it wasnt

[@laszloszoke9189]

Nincs ebben semmi különös. A katonai repülés a kiélezett teljesítmények miatt veszélyes üzem. Magyarországon 1945-1991 között 180 szovjet gép zuhant le, vagy hajtott végre kényszerleszállást műszaki meghibásodás miatt. Nyugaton sem sokkal jobb a lista. Erről mindenhol szeretnek hallgatni.

[@allan_0307]

Western Media When western military assets get downed: 🙈🙉🙊 When non-western military assets get downed: 🎉🥳

[@user22user22]

Right

[@kenjo0922]

Another technical malfunction this is very common to days in Russia 🤔

[@asocia852]

Russia is loosing very worthy military equippment, because of an enemy, honestly, inferior in almost every aspect, how russia expect fight a war against nato?

[@user-bp1bs3vq3x]

Отлично будут вести войну. Россия уже воюет со страной, в которую вкладывают оружие и солдат, все страны нато.

[@dj17q]

This Russian plane is.....potatoe.

[@richardmarsden5610]

One side loses a warplane, the other side loses the war.

[@Aj-vj9ez]

But those bots won't understand. They are celebrating.

[@theflipeechestlanjao7754]

Still a long way to take Kiev for a country that doesn't have any fighter jets

[@Aj-vj9ez]

@@theflipeechestlanjao7754 it's 30 LGBTQ's vs RUSSIA

[@gr83172]

One plane? Or, hundreds?

[@nemanjaljubicic5282]

Russia doesn't want to take Kiev brainwashed idiot, Russia is fighting against whole west, and winning the war. But your comfort in the west is secured by corporall Emma with 2 mothers

[@Renuntius_SPQR]

Ukraine said, OK, OK, I am laughing before reading! :-)

[@theapple3160]

this isn’t true, it was 300km beyond the frontline, only ukrianian anti air missile with that sort of range is s-300 but ukraine couldn’t even have detected it on radar + the bomber would have detected it and moved away in time, it likely had an engine failure, these things do happen, especially with the Tu-22 (1959 origin)

[@jaxonl7810]

Holy cope

[@user-ei9bm7mv6h]

.#zZz#.⚡⬇️⬆️💀☢☣ХОРОШИЙ ЭКСПЕРЕМЕНТ-КАК МЕЛ С ДОСКИ💀💀💀💀💀💀💀⚡🔥🔥🔥🔥⚫⚫⚫⚫💀💀💀💀💀💀💀⚡⚡⚡

[@lordtherapeutics]

Stop the stupid trigger warnings