Not impossible I guess... but it would need to cross all Crimea. All the ships anti-air in the area could probably spot it and perhaps stop it. And also there is the problem of identification, detection and tracking. Even if you can hit a target at 300 km and evade all measures you would need to know and "see" that target. I am not sure that is such an easy task.
May be an US AWACS passing some "gospel" to the Ukrainian forces? I hope we get to know more about this. It is becoming seriously expensive for Ruzzia to have anything in the air near Ukraine.
Forbes does speak about a long range radar capability for the S-200 modified. An A-50 is a large, non-stealth plane, the missile (huge missile) was intended to destroy bombers, yes, could be... it is believable.
No, it didn't had to go through Crimea. It was confirmed that plane have fallen near to Truodovaya Armenia village. And if you look at location of this village (
https://t.me/DIUkraine/3507?single), missile had to flie over occupied Southern Ukraine like Melitopol or Berdyansk, depends from where exactly it was released and then over Azov Sea.
But still, if it was done by Ukraine, it's very impressive, hitting moving plane so far away sounds very complicated, after all it's not static target. And from video that was posted, it looks that plane pilot knew about incoming missile, as we saw how plane released false heat targets and one of missiles hit it.
@paxmao, I wonder how you can stand it and how you have the will to hold discussions with brainwashed communists? He (Branko) and his red gang recently held a rally where they waved symbols of communism because they have the Soviet Union and comrades Tito and Stalin in their hearts.
Of course, the protest was directed against the current government, but the symbols they use speak more than clearly about the kind of people they are.
Something similar like protests of Polish farmers on border with Ukraine. From first glance it looks like ordinary farmers protest, but then you see banners asking help from Putin. And then guy like Piotr Panasiuk, listed on Ukrainian Peacemaker database, he have accounts on Russian social media like VK on constantly posting Russian propaganda on his Twitter
https://twitter.com/PanasukPetr https://twitter.com/United24media/status/1760260771471036627Then you understand that they're not just useful idiots, but actually heavy influenced by Russia.
Among the many brave Russian soldiers trying desperately to save Ukraine from Zelensky, and even from Ukrainian soldiers own misguided, hari-kari attempt.