{"id":2265944,"date":"2024-06-12T12:53:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T16:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-post-claims-nato-shot-down-russian-cargo-plane\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T16:55:14","slug":"fact-check-post-claims-nato-shot-down-russian-cargo-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-post-claims-nato-shot-down-russian-cargo-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Claims That NATO Downed Russian Cargo Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-post-claims-nato-shot-down-russian-cargo-plane%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2265944&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The post on\u200c social media initially claimed that NATO was \u2062responsible for downing a Russian cargo \u2064plane with a\u200c Patriot Missile System in January. \u200dHowever, this claim has been refuted. In reality, the\u200c Ukrainian forces \u200dwere the\u2064 ones who\u2064 shot down the aircraft, which was a surveillance plane, \u200dnot a cargo aircraft. During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-withdrawals-120-troops-from-israel\/\" title=\"U.S. withdrawals 120 troops from Israel\">recent missile strikes<\/a> by Ukraine\u200c in \u200bCrimea, three Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-strikes-back-at-syria-after-missile-defense-shield-fails\/\" title=\"Israel Strikes Back At Syria After Missile Defense Shield Fails\">air defense systems<\/a> were \u2062reportedly hit. Furthermore, Col. Rosanda Clemente, a U.S. Army \u2063officer, clarified in a symposium \u2062that the aircraft \u200cshot\u2062 down was \u200ca Russian A-50 radar jet, targeted by a Ukrainian Patriot air defense system, \u200cnot by NATO. \u200dThis correction and clarification \u2062of events was also confirmed on the platform X.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CaptCoronado\/status\/1800210611525058722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/x.com\/CaptCoronado\/status\/1800210611525058722&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1718202455911000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2GE5iut4FtU7dJkzpyVXNb\"><span id=\"m_-1981336888710474187mt-tracked-link_2_1718114454615\"><\/span>shared on X<\/a> claims the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) admitted it shot down a Russian cargo plane.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8Update: NATO shot down a Russian cargo aircraft with their Patriot Missile System in January, but is just admitting it now!!<\/p>\n<p>US Army Europe says that the Russian A-50U military cargo aircraft that was shot down in January 2024 was hit by a NATO Patriot Missile Battery.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nqc0DUttGv\">pic.twitter.com\/nqc0DUttGv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Civil Defense News (@CaptCoronado) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaptCoronado\/status\/1800210611525058722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ukraine shot down the aircraft, not NATO. The aircraft that was shot down was a surveillance plane, not a cargo one.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine claimed to have hit three air defense systems in the Crimea in missile strikes earlier in June, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine-says-it-hit-russian-air-defence-systems-occupied-crimea-2024-06-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>. The claimed air defense systems included included a S-400 system and two S-300 systems, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Social media users are claiming that the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-greenlights-proposed-billion-dollar-arms-sale-to-nigeria\/\" title=\"State Department Greenlights Proposed Billion-Dollar Arms Sale to Nigeria\">military admitted<\/a> that a Russian cargo plane was shot down by NATO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpdate: NATO shot down a Russian cargo aircraft with their Patriot Missile System in January, but is just admitting it now!! US Army Europe says that the Russian A-50U military cargo aircraft that was shot down in January 2024 was hit by a NATO Patriot Missile Battery.\u2026\u201d one user wrote.<\/p>\n<p>This claim is false. What actually occurred was that Col. Rosanna Clemente, a U.S. Army officer, said during a symposium that a Russian A-50 aircraft was shot down by a Ukrainian Patriot air defense system, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/land\/u-s-army-officer-confirms-russian-a-50-radar-jet-was-shot-down-with-patriot-missile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The War Zone<\/a>. The video of Col. Clemente\u2019s remarks was also published to X.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThey have probably a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PATRIOT?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PATRIOT<\/a> Bn [worth].. Some of this is being used to protect static sites.. others are being moved around and doing some really historic things..One of them is a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SAMbush?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SAMbush<\/a>.. stretching the very edges..to engage the first A-50 system back in Jan\u201d<br \/> (\ud83c\udfa5US Army) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GhB9btUvJn\">pic.twitter.com\/GhB9btUvJn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AirPower 2.0 (MIL_STD) (@AirPowerNEW1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AirPowerNEW1\/status\/1799830592902795371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOthers are being moved around and doing some really, really historic things that I\u2019ve haven\u2019t seen in 22 years of being an air defender, and one of them is a SAMbush \u2026they\u2019re doing that with extremely mobile Patriot systems that were donated by the Germans, because the systems are all mounted on the trucks. So they\u2019re moving around and they\u2019re using these types of systems, bringing them close to the plot \u2026 and stretching the very, very edges of the kinematic capabilities of that system to engage the first A-50 C2 system back in January,\u201d Col. Clemente said, according to the video and The War Zone.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriot system used to shoot down the A-50 was provided by Germany, according to Col. Clemente. The officer does not say that NATO shot down the Russian A-50.<\/p>\n<p>The A-50 is not a cargo plane, but an airborne early warning aircraft, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/skybrary.aero\/aircraft\/a50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SKYbrary<\/a>. Ukraine has claimed to have shot down two of these aircraft, BBC News reported in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-68387232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact reached out to the U.S. Army and NATO for comment. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2024\/05\/28\/fact-check-biden-fbi-force-mar-a-lago-raid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Joe Biden Authorize The FBI To Use\u2019 Deadly Force\u2019 During The Mar-A-Lago Raid?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post on X alleges that NATO confessed to downing a Russian cargo plane. \ud83d\udea8Update: NATO reportedly used their Patriot Missile System to shoot down a Russian A-50U military aircraft in January, only admitting to the action recently, according to US Army Europe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2265945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/8120293-scaled-e1713049159506.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/8120293-scaled-e1713049159506.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}