Who did what to whom is being debated
-----but is of little consequence----the fact of the matter is that vladdy has one less Tu-22M3 in his inventory
X-22 and Tu-22M3 were destroyed for the first time: How air defense worked during the attack on Ukraine.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis