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It was the S-200 that has a range of 250-300 km.Right now, the Russians on Telegram are in denial and others roll out the friendly fire routine (as though that made it better).
But if you watch the footage, it was definitively an Il-76 or derivative thereof. It's slow, it turns slowly, it puts out a metric ton of flares. And it seems plausible the missiles came from Ukraine because the first one explodes like a mile or so behind the target without having bitten off on flares, which seems to suggest it's a medium-range or lang-range radar guided system and the missile self-destructed due to having exceeded its safe maximum range. The Russians probably stumbled into the range of an Ukrainian Patriot or FrankenSAM.
Ukraine retired its S-200s over 10 years ago, but Poland modernised their own and donated a few of them to Ukraine.
S-200 missile system - Wikipedia
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