Russian war propagandist bloggers were suspiciously quick to jump on the “friendly fire” bandwagon this night. However, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Zaluzhnyi just put out a statement saying it was the work of Ukrainian armed forces, which opens up a lot of questions when it comes to the nature of the weapons that were used to down them as in practice they should have been out of reach for the weapons that Ukraine possesses, unless they were given some new toys. Not only downing of A50 is significant in itself on a strategic level given that they only have something like 5-6 in operational state and 9 in total but more importantly the crew died too for the tech that is no longer being produced as well. Apparently, linking A50 with S400 battery radars was russian response to the imminent threat of f-16, as they expand the “visibility” range for S400 AD system allowing them to detect f-16 from further distances. I bet there are some panic stations now in russian military HQ.