An error that would have cost a few tens of millions of dollars as well as, perhaps, the lives of the pilots. Russia’s air defense systems “most likely shot down” one of their fighters last week near Tokmak, in the Zaporizhzhia region, about twenty kilometers from the front line in Ukraine. According to today’s British intelligence assessment released on the social network And, we read, it is “one of the most sophisticated jets” available to Moscow, which has lost around 90 aircraft since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February last year.
According to London’s military secret services, “the place is relevant because Tokmak is a heavily fortified location that often hosts Russian headquarters that command one of the most contested sectors on the front line”, explains the 007 report, which underlines how “these commands they would normally be protected with short- and medium-range air defense systems.”
