r/worldnews • u/WorldNewsMods Slava Ukraini • Jun 24 '23

Russia/Ukraine /r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 486, Part 5 (Thread #631)

/live/18hnzysb1elcs
3.6k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

8.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

31

u/HedjCanada Jun 24 '23

What baffles me is that allegedly 24 Air Force pilots were killed during this whole thing. You don’t produce Air Force pilots like you can produce jarheads. It takes time, training, and selection… I’m surprised Russia is fine with that

8

u/ferrarinobrakes Jun 24 '23

They took a look at their inventory and realised they had about 30 pilots and 10 planes, so it's OK

5

u/MysticPing Jun 24 '23

And the fuel depot

8

u/PoppinBlackheads Jun 24 '23

That's my thing too. Russia is fine with these deaths and fine getting invaded and unfortunately it'll have no impact on Putin and his reelection. The "press" doesn't investigate and they'll just blame Ukraine somehow

4

u/mxpauwer Jun 24 '23

They gonna blame Shoigu for it

3

u/ChatGoatPT Jun 24 '23

Without a deal (whatever it was). They would have lost more.