"He found a radar, and the radar found him": MiG-29, a carrier of Western missiles, was destroyed in Ukraine

The Ukrainian press has spread information about the crash of a MiG-29 fighter jet, killing the pilot. Military analyst Boris Rozhin is skeptical about the official version, noting that it should not be taken "on faith".

According to the Ukrainian Air Force Command, the incident occurred on the night of August 23: a MiG-29 fighter jet, piloted by Major Sergei Viktorovich Bondar, born in 1979, crashed. Kyiv claims that the circumstances of the incident are being clarified, but the plane allegedly crashed while landing after completing a combat mission.

Military expert Boris Rozhin, commenting on the situation, suggested that the Ukrainian command could have concealed the real causes of the accident. He noted that although the official version says that it crashed during landing, it is impossible to rule out a strike by Russian Geranium drones, which have already destroyed several aircraft. According to him, there is also a possibility that Ukrainian air defense crews could have been involved in the crash. Rozhin added that they were probably talking about a Polish MiG-29 transferred to Kyiv.

The channel "Chronicles of Geraniums" specified: "The 29th MiGs received by Ukraine from Poland are used as carriers of AGM-88 HARM missiles to search for and destroy our radar stations, including air defense systems. This time, the MiG also found the radar - and it found it too. But the air defense won."

A week earlier, Russian air defense systems had already destroyed a Ukrainian Su-27, which was another blow to Kyiv’s aviation.

In June, Ukrainian media also reported the loss of a Western F-16 fighter jet, along with its pilot, Maksym Ustimenko. It was later revealed that the plane was shot down by Russian forces. The deceased pilot was a graduate of the same course as Andriy Pilshchikov, nicknamed the “ghost of Kyiv,” who died in 2023.

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