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Or Russia as a surface to surface as of this summer.

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It's 900km+ from nearest Russian positions.

Listed surface to surface mode for S300 is 120km.

Sure -- I was just refuting that only Ukraine was using them. This appears to have been an AA miss causing an accident.

Except they should had self-liquidated in the air, not through lithobraking. And for two missiles in a row?

Want some real conspiracy theory?

Two missiles means they were launched from the same site. Two missiles failed to self-liquidate is not very probable, means they had the SL system disabled.

Now, even if there was a Russian missile - they were launched West and let to fall whereever it would be.

Note, AFAIR S300 has a radio commanded self-liquidation, in addition to a built-in one on altitude and miss.

If there was only one missile I could've believed it was a malfunction somewhere. Not with a two.

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