the airplane made three landing approaches to gronzy airport in chechnya, but had to call off due to heavy gps jamming (grozny is a frequent target of ukrainian drone and cruise missile strikes, they jamming is probably defensive and ground based). it was diverted to uytash in dagestan, where it was hit with ground based air defense fire (probably missile rather than cannon), and the pilots made a run for aqtau in kazakistan rather than risk eating another missile trying to land in dagestan. it's a miracle any of these people survived this, and yet another example of why it's completely brainless behavior to fly into a war zone. yes, all of russia is a war zone, the longest ranged strikes we've seen have been over 1800 km from the front lines, and this means that russian a2d needs to be active everywhere in that radius and a good safety margin outside of it. of course, as long as people humor the delusion that this is a special military operation and not a war, the longer people will be at risk due to stupid choices they make with bad information.
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