Meanwhile is time to start talking about a disaster for the Ruzzian aviation. Another A-50 and two more SU fighter / bomber. The free-ride to launch the gliding bombs is becoming more of a roulette game (I cannot avoid the pun: a Ruzzian Roulette game) and I so surprised that Ruzzis are actually letting the A-50 (this are those planes with a huge radar on-top like the AWACS) actually get in the danger zone. It smells of desperation.
The A-50s are soviet tek, the production lines are not there, the know how has been lost and the components will be nearly impossible to source. As said, buying Ukrainian agricultural land at Manhattan prices.
In the Ukrainian telegram segment, 2-3 Russian planes per day have been regularly shot down lately. The truth is very difficult to confirm, either there is none or they turn out to be fakes, such as the recent video with burning grass, which the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force Oleschuk hurried to post as evidence, and then had to turn on the back one. Russia has reliably lost three aircraft recently, one A50 and two Su-35, all far behind the front line and probably without Ukrainian help at all. As for the rest of the losses, these are your wet fantasies as usual.
It has been widely discussed that a fake was posted as bait by some Ruzzi Bloggers and some Ukrainian media echoed it to then having to back off. However, there is enough evidence of several of the hits, not just of jets, but of the much more expensive and much more difficult (impossible?) to replace A-50 (not 1, 2 of those)
Is more like 1 plane a day average and certainly not three planes total. If you look at the right sources, you will notice how there are less FABs being used and that is for a reason. Seems like Ukraine is preparing to have a degree of air advantage when the F-16s arrive in summer.
But anyway, you choice to not believe it, it does not matter for the pilots - they know - and not believing it does not make the planes come back from nothingness.
edited to add: dumBAss, if ruzzia wants to destroy its air force at this pace it is absolutely fine. In fact that may convince a few more Republicans that supporting Ukraine is good value. And the same is happening with artillery, they have until 2026 at this pace... then they are at zero.