Monitors at Walmart still typically have VGA available, so someone must be using it.
Also a bit weird in that they have a “modern” set of just VGA/HDMI, as a monitor of the period would have DVI, too. Think DVI wasn’t ever really a thing except for power users though.
In the article it’s how Putin phrases it. But, it’s also how anti-air missiles typically work. So…
It’s a stupid bit of trying to cover their ass by claiming the jet wasn’t targeted, and hoping people will assume that anti-air missiles are direct-hit weapons when they work more like below.