Media: Russian General Liquidated On Downed A-50

He arrived in Belarus in March 2022.

Information has appeared on the web that Major-General Oleg Pchela, deputy commander of the long-range aviation of the Russian Air Force, was on board the A-50 shot down over the Sea of Azov on January 14.

Major-General, born in 1970, arrived in Belarus to carry out airstrikes in Ukraine in March 2022.

Since then, he has periodically received and performed "assignments" of the Kremlin.

The Russian Defence Ministry reported that the occupant left daughter Ekaterina - the first and only (as of the end of November 2022) female pilot of long-range aviation of the Russian Air Force.

Her father flew Su-24 bombers for 25 years, and then, after becoming the commander of a strategic aviation division, retrained in a year and was cleared to pilot a Tu-160 missile carrier. Ekaterina's brother is a civil aviation pilot.