Budanov

The Beriev A-50 aircraft, also known as the NATO "Mainstay", is an early warning and control aircraft used by Russia to monitor Ukrainian air defenses.
The plane usually flies with a crew of up to 15 staff and is estimated to cost over $300 million.

They state that it is actually a blood clot, reports Ukrainska Pravda.
"Maybe I will disappoint you, but we know that he died of a blood clot. It is more or less confirmed. This was not taken from the Internet, but, unfortunately, it was a natural death," said Budanov.

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Budanov claims to have "sources" close to Vladimir Putin.
"All future wars will look like this. In any country in the world. We can say that we are setting the trend," he told Reuters.
"Here we started in a completely different way. And now the Russians are losing the information battle," he added.

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