The Daily Populous Thursday August 29th, 2024 evening edition
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Belarus uses aircraft to down Russian attack drone that flew into Belarus for first time

For the first time, Belarus may have used aircraft to shoot down a Russian kamikaze drone that has flown into Belarus again.

Source: Belaruski Hajun, a Belarusian independent military monitoring project

Details: The analysts noted that during another Russian attack on Ukraine on the night of 28-29 August, one of the Shahed attack drones flew into the territory of Belarus in Yelsk district.

According to monitoring data, after the UAV entered the airspace of Belarus, a Belarusian Air Force fighter chased the drone for about 20 minutes, and at least two explosions were heard in the Yelsk district of Gomel Oblast at around 03:55, and a bright flash in the sky was observed.

Quote: "Therefore, this is probably the first recorded case when a fighter jet of the Belarusian Air Force attempted to destroy a real military target in the sky, which was a Russian Shahed kamikaze drone."

Background: On the night of 28-29 August, Russia carried out another large-scale attack on Ukraine. Ukrainian air defence destroyed 60 kamikaze drones and two air-to-surface missiles out of 79 targets that Russia launched.

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Jerthy on August 29th, 2024 at 11:29 UTC »

I know it was most likely accidental, but it's really, really funny in the context of what he said recently xD

agree-with-me on August 29th, 2024 at 11:01 UTC »

Putin will send a bill and Luka will pay it.

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intermediatetransit on August 29th, 2024 at 10:08 UTC »

Seems pretty unsensational to me. They most likely had no idea whose drone it was and shot it down by mistake.

Heck, communications in the Russian military is so poor that friendly fire is a regular occurrence.