{"id":40887,"date":"2022-06-24T12:31:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T09:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=40887"},"modified":"2022-06-24T12:31:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T09:31:39","slug":"british-defense-ministry-russia-provides-wagnerians-with-old-su-25s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=40887","title":{"rendered":"British Defense Ministry: Russia provides Wagnerians with old Su-25s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 24 .June .2022 | Political News .\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia allocates obsolete Su-25 models to Wagner and does not provide mercenaries with modern aircraft equipment.\u00a0In addition, there is probably a shortage of professional pilots for Russian combat aircraft<strong> <\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it is specified, the Ukrainian fighters interrogated the pilot of the Russian Su-25 attack aircraft, shot down on June 17.&nbsp;He reportedly admitted that he was a former major in the Russian Air Force, then got a job as a military contractor for Wagner and served missions during the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to British intelligence, the use of retired personnel to carry out close air support missions indicates that the Russian Air Force is trying to support a full-scale invasion of Ukraine &#8220;with a sufficient number of crew.&#8221;&nbsp;This, they add, is probably due to a combination of a lack of properly trained personnel in Russia and its combat losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, according to the British Ministry of Defense, during the missions, the Russian pilot used commercial GPS devices, rather than Russian military navigation equipment.&nbsp;According to spies, this is proof that Russia provides the Wagnerians with older Su-25 models and does not provide modern aviation equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Before<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Armed Forces of Ukraine\u00a0hit the occupiers\u00a0and logistics centers in aviation.\u00a0Shock groups hit up to thirty enemy armored combat vehicles, manpower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:\u00a0Ukrgate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 24 .June .2022 | Political News .\u00a0 Russia allocates obsolete Su-25 models to Wagner and does not provide mercenaries with modern aircraft equipment.\u00a0In addition, there is probably a shortage of professional pilots for Russian combat aircraft . Details As it is specified, the Ukrainian fighters interrogated the pilot of the Russian Su-25 attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":40888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10750,16],"tags":[166,813,996,2399,1854],"class_list":["post-40887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-news","category-ukraine-news","tag-british","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40898,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40887\/revisions\/40898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}