10 minutes agoRussian pilot killed: He had returned from retirement but found death in Ukraine
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)A senior general of Russia's Air Force has been shot and shot down over the sky of the Luhansk region, marking the recent loss on the long list of losses of senior Russian military since the beginning of the Ukraine invasion, writes the Daily Mail, records Periscope. General Botatev, 63, was running [...]
General Botatev, 63, was enjoying the retirement period when Russian tanks flooded across the border on February 24th, while he had not flown since 2012.
His Su-25 combat plane was hit by a Stinger rocket around 8:25 a.m. on Sunday morning in Donbas' skies, and he was unable to jump.
It is still unclear why a retired pilot general with the highest profile shot to death in war - was under the control of an $11 million aircraft.
Former Botashev colleagues told the BBC that “ai simply could not be indifferent to” when he was allowed the chance to fly, but the loss of such an elderly and such profile suggests that Russian air forces do not have enough pilots to carry out maneuvers over Ukraine.
The retiree is the 10th Russian general believed to have been killed in Ukraine, while more than 40 other colonels were killed in the bloody war. /Periscopi/
