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The video shows the aircraft flying over a populated area and provides a map view of the area it was downed over. “This is what the last flight to a ‘no-go zone’ looked like,” the video description said. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi confirmed on Jan. 15 that the Ukrainian Air Force had destroyed a Russian A-50 AWACS plane and damaged an Il-22 command-and-control aircraft. Read also: Kremlin silent on downing of Russian planes The two planes were on duty near Strilkove, Kherson Oblast, and were hit around 9:00 p.m. on Jan. 14, with the Il-22 performing an …

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