MAJOR Russian news outlets boasted a precision Lancet drone attack on a Ukrainian warplane on the ground – only to find that they had destroyed a worthless decoy.
Footage shows the strike on Dolgintsevo in Dnepropetrovsk region, and at first sight it looks authentic.
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An explosion is seen from aerial footage and the valuable Su-25M1 appears to have been obliterated.
“A satellite photo shows that this Ukrainian Su-25 was completely burned out,” says one Russian report.
Major news outlets including the Kremlin’s official newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta seized on the attack on the airbase in Kryvyi Rih, Volodymyr Zelensky’s home city, some 45 miles from the frontline.
But Russian sources soon realised they had hit a fake warplane – a decoy.
“There is reason to believe that the Su-25 destroyed by the Lancet turned out to be a decoy,” posted Military Informant channel.
“This is evidenced by the atypical connection of the wings with the engines, the lack of mechanisation of the wings and the crookedly made cockpit…
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