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"Birthday Gift": The aircraft told how they knocked down Russian Su-24m near Snake

Pavel's anti -aircraft missile battery commander wanted to destroy the Russian "drying" on his birthday. His brothers tried and fulfilled his wishes. On the evening of December 5, the Ukrainian military shot down the Russian Su-24M plane over the Black Sea in the Snake Island. It was a gift for the birthday of the commander of the anti -aircraft missile battery Paul. This was reported in the Air Force press service on Facebook.

"The peer of the Armed Forces ordered a Russian" drying "on the birthday - the parcel was received on time," the message reads. Pavel's anti -aircraft missile battery commander was born on December 6, 1991. When he was asked what he wanted to receive a gift on his birthday, he replied: "Most wanted to hear in this day in the right:" The purpose was destroyed! " .

"The brothers have tried! On the evening of December 5, Rashist Su-24m went to the bottom of "behind the Russian military ship",-the PS said. Pavel said that he was glad for the boys, but would like to be personally present when the Russian aircraft was being shot. But now he is in the hospital, ahead of his spine surgery. In addition, he stressed that his unit from the beginning of a full -scale invasion has destroyed more than a hundred goals - manned apparatus, missiles, UAVs.

In particular, in the first days of the war it was possible to destroy the Russian SU-35 in the Kiev region. "At first, we did not even realize what fatty goal was knocked down. Just worked . . . And then regularly replenished the" account. "The first weeks I did not even record destroyed goals, there was no time for such formalities," Pavel said. However, he considers the most "yielding" day when he managed to destroy three enemy KA-52 helicopters in 30 minutes.

A few hours thereafter, the winged X-59 and Orlan-10 rocket were destroyed. According to Paul, the hardest thing is not to knock down the target, namely to identify and capture it in a timely manner. "Of course, there are still open" Gestalts "for destroyed purposes . . . For example, A-50 or at least Su-57 . . . And even better, the board in which the chief terrorist will fly . . . "-said the commander.

We will remind, on December 5 the Armed Forces were knocked down by a Russian plane Su-24m above the Black Sea. In the Russian Federation, it is believed that the destruction of the board was with the help of a "incomprehensible but long -range" air defense system during the execution of combat mission over the Black Sea. In particular, the aircraft acted under the cover of the Su-30cm fighter.