Military expert tells NV how Russia might have lost four aircraft in single day / The New Voice of Ukraine

Military observer Denys Popovych told Radio NV on May 14 how the incident could have happened, and what the Russians are saying about it.

– Bryansk Oblast borders Ukraine, and four aircraft crashed on (Russian) territory there at once – this is something extraordinary, probably even in world military practice. What do you think about this sequence of incidents?

– It is worth reading what is being reported in Russia. They say that something very long-range was used, something new from air defense systems, from the territory of Ukraine. Or it was some kind of sabotage group working on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Here, the set of events associated with this situation raises many questions about the activities of air defense. Or not air defense, but the activities of the Russian Federation’s Aerospace Forces (VKS) in general.

They should be renamed. We could translate “air defense” into Russian as “(betrayal), theft, doom”.

– Yes, a lot of questions are asked in their (social media groups), but what about their air defense system, and why four at once? There was speculation that (Ukraine) could, for example, have brought a Patriot (air defense system) somewhere very close to the front line, for example, hit these four targets and then rolled it back somewhere. Is this possible?

– In principle, it’s possible. Very close to the border, something very long-range could be rolled up there, hit, and thus down two warplanes and two helicopters.

– I also read a term called an “air ambush,” which is an ambush that targets some kind of aerial object. What is this?

– This could be a complex story, involving both an air defense system and, possibly, sabotage and reconnaissance groups that were operating in Bryansk Oblast. Now we can only speculate about this hypothetically, how it was organized, how it happened.

– Do you think the Russians will change their tactics of using aviation after this?

– This is a question for the future, but they must have questions about the activities of the Russian Aerospace Forces command. As they say: “Who is (Russian General) Surovikin, if he worked with the VKS in such a way that they lost all four aircraft in one day?” I don’t remember this happening even since the beginning of the invasion.

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