{"id":14100,"date":"2024-01-16T01:51:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T01:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/16\/ukraine-claims-it-destroyed-russian-spy-plane-in-attack-over-sea-of-azov\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T01:51:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T01:51:18","slug":"ukraine-claims-it-destroyed-russian-spy-plane-in-attack-over-sea-of-azov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/16\/ukraine-claims-it-destroyed-russian-spy-plane-in-attack-over-sea-of-azov\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine claims it destroyed Russian spy plane in attack over Sea of Azov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Ukraine claimed it destroyed a Russian spy plane over the Sea of Azov on Monday, in what would be a significant strike against Moscow\u2019s\u00a0aerial capabilities.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Ukraine\u2019s Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi initially said on Telegram on Monday that two aircraft had been destroyed, writing: \u201cWarriors of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0destroyed an enemy A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft and an enemy IL-22 air control center.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      He also thanked the Air Force for \u201cthe perfectly planned and executed operation\u201d in southern Ukraine.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      In a statement, the Ukrainian Air Forces called the special operation in the Azov Sea region \u201csuccessful.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Information about the downing of two Russian military aircraft by Ukrainian forces over the Sea of Azov appeared in social media late on Sunday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, later said in a post on Facebook that one of the Russian planes\u00a0targeted was able to make a landing, but said it appeared \u201cbeyond repair.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cSo, no matter how you slice it, the target is destroyed, and resuscitation will not help!\u201d he wrote.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThe long-range radar detection aircraft A-50 was and is a priority target for us,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd until today, the destruction of this aircraft seemed an impossible task for the Air Force.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Sea of Azov separates Ukraine and Russia at the northeastern point of the Black Sea, north of Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula occupied by Russia since 2014.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"map\">\n<div class=\"map__container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Institute for the Study of War wrote earlier this month, citing Russian military bloggers, that Russia had \u201cbegun constant sorties of A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft due to the threat of Ukrainian strikes against Russian military infrastructure in Crimea.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The A-50 is a Soviet-era spy plane designed to detect and report back the coordinates and movements of enemy objects.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      A Ukrainian intelligence source provided an audio recording of the incident alleged to be an intercept from a nearby Russian fighter jet relaying an assistance call from the damaged IL-22 to ground control for an emergency landing.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThe aircraft asked to pass on information immediately. It was hit, plans to land in Anapa. An ambulance and fire fighters are urgently needed,\u201d the nearby Russian jet allegedly radioed down to ground control.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine claimed it destroyed a Russian spy plane over the Sea of Azov on Monday, in what would be a significant strike against Moscow\u2019s\u00a0aerial capabilities. Ukraine\u2019s Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi initially said on Telegram on Monday that two aircraft had been destroyed, writing: \u201cWarriors of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0destroyed an enemy A-50 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}