These headlines are such crap. It makes it sound like you can see the bombers still intact, but Ukraine says they destroyed them. No, it shows them fucked up.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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I expect better from AP news.
I don't, they've been a mixed bag for quite a few years. They have some sketch board members as well.
Scroll down to see specifically AP:https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12174861
The drone footage of the attack is also public. Like sure it has to be confirmed but it's not like there's no evidence other than a few wrecks.
Yeah, maybe they phrased the headline that way for the people who thought the bombers just did that to themselves.
You never know. Those planes may have been struggling lately and just made a decision.
Mental health is health!
What a horrendous article title.
They couldn't afford to put "damaged" or "scorched" in the headline, so they went with making it sound like the opposite of what it was supposed to convey.
if they remove "says it" from the title would be more concise and less misleading in a single fix
Well, we don't know that for sure. There might have been someone smoking a cigarette nearby that accidentally caused a fire. Next to each one. At the same time.
Russia: it was caused by one individual smoking. Nothing to see here. Move along.
You kid but they scraped away the scorched rests and put intact planes over it to hide the damade from satelite images.
What an incredible operation, slava Ukraine!
It's so fucking sad to see some of the bombers still sitting there not destroyed.
It’s possible they’ve still been damaged enough to be unusable. Heat and/or shrapnel from those airplanes that burned could have easily caused damage that these satellites can’t see.
If nothing else, they'll have to be taken out of commission for a while to be thoroughly inspected and tested.