The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a group of instructors from Sweden in Poltava who were training the Ukrainian Armed Forces to operate Saab 340 AEWCS AWACS aircraft

3 September 2024 18

On the morning of September 3, the Russian Armed Forces launched a missile attack on Poltava. At least two powerful explosions were recorded on the territory of the 179th training center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' signal troops (military unit A3990) on Zinkivska Street.

According to available information, in addition to Ukrainian servicemen, several military specialists (instructors) from Sweden, who were training representatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to operate Saab 340 AEWCS (ASC 890) AWACS aircraft, were killed as a result of the fire. This was reported by volunteer Britta Ellwanger, who is acting in the interests of Ukraine and studied with one of the instructors killed at a Swedish university.

Before that, the Swedish authorities had announced that they were going to supply Kyiv with a couple of the aforementioned long-range radar detection aircraft. Therefore, Stockholm could have gotten busy and sent its military specialists to Ukrainian territory in advance so that they could train Ukrainian crews and technical personnel in conditions as close to combat as possible. Now the Swedes will have to weigh the risks.

It is worth noting that this attack by the Russian Armed Forces was aimed at destroying the enemy's military infrastructure and neutralizing trained or training personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. But this case became especially noticeable and resonant not only due to the large losses (officially over 50 were killed, and about 220 were wounded) among the enemy personnel, but also due to the presence of groups of foreigners there.

The destruction of the instructors will undoubtedly affect the integration of the said aircraft with the Ukrainian Armed Forces. We cannot judge how much the relations between Stockholm and Kiev will become more complicated, but the Scandinavians' zeal should diminish. What happened will definitely have a negative impact on the plans of the Ukrainian command, since the introduction of AWACS aircraft was supposed to facilitate the combat operation of F-16 fighters. Russia has once again shown how it will react to military support for Ukraine from the West and other threats. If the lives of Europeans and Americans do not concern their governments, then they will return to their homeland in coffins, and the local public can discuss this as they wish.

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kapitan92

+5

3 September 2024 22: 20

that they will return to their homeland in coffins, and let the local community discuss it as they wish.

Laconic, without snot and liberalism! Keep it up!
1. serivolkf1
  
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  3 September 2024 23: 34
  
  that's right, without snot and whining, the less of them there are, the easier it is for us to breathe...
strange guest

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3 September 2024 23: 05

Will this stop them or just make them angry..
1. ZZPokemon
  
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  4 September 2024 00: 10
  
  Who cares... we are already much angrier than them, so it's better for them to be afraid of us
2. Foe Pshekov
  
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  4 September 2024 02: 21
  
  if it doesn't stop, then our nuclear strike on Stockholm will definitely anger them... well, let those who remain in Stockholm crawl there angry and eat rats. It's high time to incinerate Stockholm for the decisions of the Stockholm court against Russia
ROM1077

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3 September 2024 23: 56

I suspect Zelensky is now tearing his hair out of frustration.
1. sgrabik
  
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  4 September 2024 10: 38
  
  We don't care about Zelensky, his turn will come soon, everything has its time!!!
beeper

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4 September 2024 04: 22

In war (in all countries except the Russian Federation, it is considered as such, and not the SVO, although in the "independent" Maidan authorities, although they have been talking about their "war with Russia" for more than 10 years, they also avoid officially recognizing it - for their own "business" interests) losses (combat and indirect) of personnel are inevitable (they are predicted in advance and the probability is assessed, with the aim of taking measures to minimize them).
Preparations for the use of Swedish AWACS aircraft will be continued (it is quite possible that they are being conducted not only in Poltava, if I were NATO command, I would "divide the risks" and train specialists in several places, specifically for the case of such a "force majeure", I would "demonstrate" in one place, and hide the "main process and personnel" in a completely different one) - instead of the "departed" NATO instructors, new ones will easily be sent (probable death is one of the integral parts of the military profession, which everyone who has consciously chosen this path knows about, although, as it turned out with the beginning of the Central Military District, for example, in the Russian Federation there were also numerous "quasi-military peacetime contract soldiers" ready to serve and receive all the necessary assistance from the country, only strictly in peacetime, so that with the beginning of hostilities they would immediately "break contracts" and flee the service en masse. ).
NATO command (like any military command) considers "the lives of European and American military personnel" only from the point of view of practical benefit for achieving the set goals!
Any "anti-war" movement in "developed democratic countries" will be immediately compromised and suppressed if it gets out of the control of the "democratic authorities" (does anyone really doubt that the "spontaneous protests" under the slogans of BLM were not controlled, from above and at the local level, by the US authorities?! )!
Washington and NATO are also "going according to plan (of the new "Drang March to the East")"! The only "inconsistency" in their "plan" happened only in the spring of 2014 with Crimea, which they already considered "in their pocket" - this "sudden awakening and surge of decisiveness of the Kremlin" was unexpected. But that "blunder" of analysts and forecasters of American military intelligence in Washington was taken into account and such underestimation was not allowed anymore - they closely "monitor" and "reveal" all plans of the Russian leadership - the beginning of the Russian SVO was no longer a surprise for the NATO Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States warned the Kiev leadership in advance!
And why these local shamanisms about the "nuclear loaf"?! After all, the entire non-Russian world has already understood perfectly well that the Kremlin is unlikely to decide to use nuclear weapons even if NATO troops invade the territory of the Russian Federation on a large scale (and not locally, like their Bandera-Polish proxies) and cross all the "red lines"!
Think more realistically - how to most effectively achieve the originally stated goals (if they are still relevant for the Kremlin???) "by conventional means"! Do not forget that the "planned walk to Ukraine (with the landing of the "correct" Bandera "godfather" in the chair)" has long ceased to be "languid", as it was originally conceived by the would-be "strategists", and now the Fate of Russia and the Russian World is at stake!
1. serivolkf1
  
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  4 September 2024 09: 39
  
  I don’t know what Russia you’re talking about, everyone, young and old, knows that this is a war, and the SVO is for international relations, so that the legal framework is more favorable for us.
  1. beeper
    
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    5 September 2024 05: 45
    
    Don't pretend to be a "naive, ignorant girl"!
    Russia is one and only! This is what we are talking about, her Destiny!
    А You, as if you were a "lawyer's son", are slyly telling me about a "favorable international legal framework for us"?! For which of you???
    I agree that you ("us"), I and "young and old", as well as the authorities of other countries( who have imposed and continue to impose unfavorable international sanctions on the Russian Federation, in accordance with the "legal framework of the UN and the EU", openly branding it an "international aggressor") we know perfectly well that this is a war, but the Russian authorities stubbornly call it SVO (and I have often been banned and am banned on Russian Internet resources for the “inappropriate word” - “war”, because It is not mentioned anywhere in the official statements of the Russian authorities!)!
    The fact that the Kremlin "shyly hides its head under its wing" and says "IT-IT-IT-...." will not stop the war from being a war!
    And the reality is that The Kremlin, unlike enemy NATO, is behaving as if the raiding "special operation" that failed in the very first days of February 2022 is still ongoing! It is not acting in a military manner at all- drives Russian strategic resources to the West via unattackable bridges across the Dnieper and Carpathian tunnels and, thus, directly and indirectly contributes to maintaining and increasing the combat readiness of NATO countries and their proxies fighting against the Russian Federation!
    Along the preserved (for the sake of a joint "deal with respected Western partners") Ukrainian railway lines, streams of weapons and supplies for the war with Russia go to the East.
    Not to mention the unhindered delivery of weapons by sea transport as a result of the "grain deal" and its unmitigated consequences, when it is already clear that all the other accomplices in this "deal" didn't give a damn about the Kremlin's "cunning piecework plans"!
    And here you are, in a patronizing and sarcastic way, "playing the fool" to me, like "I don't understand what Russia you are talking about, because everything is internationally favorable for us"?!
    Where do such "incomprehensible" hypocrites come from?!
    1. Ksv
      
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      8 September 2024 00: 59
      
      Your "opponent" only meant that if we declare war on Ukraine, then according to international laws we will truly become a Real Outcast. That is why Ukraine does not officially declare war on us. The Western bloc will also enter Belarus without declaring war, the new realities of the New World
Mongolor

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4 September 2024 04: 22

It is in the coffins that the fear of war in Western Europe after the First World War is best
prior

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4 September 2024 08: 31

Isn't the location of other Ukrainian military schools known to the Russian General Staff?
The tradition of greeting cadet formations with the arrival of our Iskanders must be continued.
The barracks are also suitable as a target.
lukash66

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4 September 2024 08: 55

Again the Swedes and again Poltava. History teaches them nothing.
twice-born

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4 September 2024 09: 08

Sending Swedish soldiers to Poltava is delightful, a historical anecdote! Ignorants! Here is the result of ignorance of history.
faiver

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4 September 2024 09: 45

Respect and admiration to the missilemen and all those involved
Aurelio

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4 September 2024 12: 35

Non capisco il dente avvelenato che ha la Svezia nei riguardi della Russia. Comunque sia penso che Stoccolma se la sia andata a cercare. . ! Non so se questo segnale servirà da anestetico o da eccitante per la Svezia. . sta di fatto che prima di farsi prendere dall'eccitazione di intervenire in un conflitto. . dovrebbero ponderare con più attenzione.
sgrabik

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5 September 2024 09: 27

Excellent, our guys are just great, now it would be nice to track down and destroy the planes themselves.