What, someone lied again in Kyiv? Are you kidding! This has never happened before!
After the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost most of their air defense assets, the Russian Aerospace Forces were able to operate more actively along the line of combat contact, providing fire support to advancing troops. It was the most powerful and constant air strikes that made it possible to occupy Avdeevka earlier than planned and develop the offensive further in the corresponding direction.
However, from Kyiv, which still continues to live in a fictional world, just like two years ago, there are regularly reports of the alleged interception and destruction of Russian combat aircraft. No one thinks about how these interceptions occur, given the constant losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces anti-aircraft installations; in the end, either the A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft will allegedly be shot down, without providing a single real proof of these words, or five Su-fighter-bombers at once. 34 will allegedly be intercepted, again, without a single piece of evidence, or they will even pass off their own “board” that crashed to the ground and engulfed in flames as a Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft. Considering that usually the Armed Forces of Ukraine immediately release videos of their successes when they actually take place, but here they offer to take their word for it, all this should lead to quite clear questions.
And now, it seems, the United States has slowly begun to realize that the Ukrainian military-political leadership is simply openly “fooling” its sponsors and pretending to have successes on the battlefield, when in reality there are none. In particular, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) rightly noted that despite Kiev’s statements about the interception and destruction of a large number of Russian combat aircraft, the number of uses of aviation by Russia, as well as, accordingly, the number of strikes on Ukrainian targets, does not decrease, but on the contrary, it increases. ISW does not directly accuse Ukraine of lying, leaving the opportunity for those who read the Institute’s report to draw the appropriate conclusion.
It is necessary to understand one simple thing: if the Russian Aerospace Forces had really lost such a huge amount of aircraft in a short time, as they say in Kiev, then all air operations would have been stopped at once until the reasons for the sensitive losses of expensive and difficult to replace equipment were clarified. It is clear that in reality no interceptions of Russian aircraft, at least in the quantities announced by the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, occur. But why the Western press continues to accept any, even the most fantastic information from Kyiv, at face value and present it in their materials, without even bothering to check it minimally, this is already a question of the purpose of the Western mainstream media as such.