Supposedly, Ukrainian Mi-24s went across the border and interdicted an ammo dump. Anyone have confirmations on that?
Ballsy if true.
Don't know, as far as anyone can tell, that's a Mi-24 but whether or not it's Ukrainian? Nobody can tell, and Ukrainian were not admitting it was them.
It's goes one of two way.
1.) It's Ukrainian - That mean somehow they can penetrate the Russian ADIF network basically make RuAF and Russia Military a laughing stock, but it also mean it is an attack in Russian mainland. Which is a clause for Russia to escalate the entire conflict.
2,) It's Russian - Either it's a false flag or some disgruntle Russian have access to Mi-24 and decided to bomb the shit out of the fuel depot. Or It is a false flag op the Russian did it to themselves and blame the Ukrainian so they can escalate the entire conflict.
A few issue did not sat right with me. We only see 1 gunship, you usually send a pair or 2 pairs if this is an airstrike, you want to exploit the situation, I mean, if you sneak one in, you can sneak 2 or 4 in, and maximize your damage. So sending just 1 would be a giant waste of opportunities, how often can you caught Russian off guard?
Another issue is Ukrainian have Cruise missile, they can strike that oil depot with Cruise missile, they don't really need to use gunship.
On the other hand, if this is a false flag, it didn't make any sense to go after actual military target. It would work just as well for a gunship to strafe a city or something like that.
could be same here.
