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So ruissia stopped all military contacts with turkey, they will be from now on send with every bomber their  air fighters, and is also sending  the Russian cruiser Moskva closer to syria/turkish border. The cruiser  is known to have anti air possibilities similar to s 300 ground systems.

Yes. Russia deploys Moskva cruiser off Latakia coast to provide guaranteed destruction of any hostile aircrafts, attacking Russian war planes. Also all bombers are said to be now escorted with fighters for similar purposes.

https://www.rt.com/news/323329-russia-suspend-military-turkey/

If similar accident happened now, the attacking F-16 would be downed as a measure of symmetrical response. And Russia would even have a formal right to do so, had the Turkish plane violated Syrian airspace, as it happened during the last accident. Yet the fate of the pilots would not be as miserable...

From my point of view, this provocation of Turkey is motivated by the disruption of illegal Turkish oil business by Russian air strikes (a recent video of Russian MOD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQZvNCRpdnQ, many similar exist, like the one with "ant-paths" of ISIL oil trucks bombed by Russian forces). Turkey trades oil with ISIL and other groups, that gives money to the terrorists and super-cheap oil to the Turks. This is big business. This oil comes at no cost, as the oil fields and refineries have been expropriated from the legal owners, and are now simply producing without any capital investments.

OSCE observers possibly?

Su-27 is 21.9 m long; Boeing 777-200ER is 63.7 m long. All in all, the Boeing is roughly three times longer. On the pic, it's closer to six times (eyeballing).

Assume that the camera objective is far away enough such that it's practically an orthogonal projection on the horizontal plane. Let x be the pitch of the Su-27 relative to the horizon.

cos(x) = (L/6)/(L/3) = 1/2 where L is the length of the Boeing.

x = arccos(1/2) = 60º.

The Su-27 doesn't look to be going anywhere near that.

EDIT: Compare

This is even more fake, if you notice the city of Donetsck with the runway in the background. The runway is 4 km long. The Boeing is 64 m. But their angular sizes nearly match, which means, that the photo must have been taken from something like 160 m above. No satellites fly there, obviously. Unless maybe from another plane, or photoshopped.

   


...what the heck!

ivze, Russian army is rather far from taking Mariupol, and battle for Novoazovsk is not over.

I don't believe that Russia can reach as far as Poltava without full-scale invasion with ballistic missiles and aviation

As for what will I do... Probably try to evacuate to some Western country. If not... Wheelchair can allow to pack some  explosives inside

So you mean, you're a disabled person. Sorry, if so...
Anyhow, we, Russians, are not a goddamn ISIL or something, but a highly civilised nation We respect the rights of civilian locals.
Yet escaping from the war zone in search for a temporary asylum anywhere you decide, either to the West, or to Russia is still a choice I would recommend you, if it comes to a military confrontation in the region. That would be the best choice for the locals of Donetsk and Lugansk, when it all started.

Russia is calling an UN session on Ukraine at 21:00 UTC today.
http://itar-tass.com/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/1362119

Siberian artist: “We give away our resources and get piles of dumb laws in return”

It is the beginning of disintegration of Russia

This won't happen...
http://youtu.be/ElnPLizj1JQ
Maidan no pasaran!