The United Kingdom accepts Ukraine's version of the alleged downing of a Russian bomber as true

April 20 () –

The United Kingdom Intelligence services have endorsed the Ukrainian version of the incident that led to a Russian Air Force supersonic bomber crashing on Friday in the Stavropol region and have concluded that it was a shoot-down and not a accident, as Moscow maintains.

The Russian Ministry of Defense assured that the device, a Tu-22M3, crashed in the town of Krasnogvardeiski due to “a technical failure.” One of the occupants of the device died, as the regional governor later acknowledged.

However, Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mikola Oleschuk reported one shootdown. “For the first time, the Air Force's anti-aircraft units (…) have destroyed a Tu-22M3 long-range strategic bomber,” he praised.

Now, from London it is reported “almost certainly” that an S-200 missile flew over the area and that it was “another successful Ukrainian action.” “This system is probably the same one that was already used to shoot down an A-50,” says a British Intelligence report released by the Ministry of Defense.

Ukraine has already managed to destroy at least one hundred Russian fighter aircraft since the beginning of the Russian invasion, but the British authorities have highlighted that they had never shot down a strategic bomber before.