On 3/4/2022 10:27 AM, Henry Vanderbilt wrote:
Very likely collateral. Airport was taken by Russian heliborne forces at start of this mess, taken under fire by local Ukrainian forces, then retaken in a day-long back-and-forth battle by a Ukrainian mobile reaction force, then later re-retaken by the Russian ground advance from the north. LOTS of shooting going on in the course of all that.
I have to wonder why it wasn't flown out of harm's way before all this. Under maintenance? Possibly insufficient warning though - the airport seizure was apparently an opening attempt at grabbing an airhead near the capital, so it may well have been one of the opening moves of the war.
