An airfield in the Russian city of Kursk was targeted by a drone strike on Tuesday, a day after two air bases deep inside Russian territory were hit by Ukrainian drones.
Tuesday’s attack targeted an airfield that is about 80 miles from the Ukrainian border, causing a nearby oil tank to catch fire. The region’s governor said there were no casualties in the incident.
The attacks on Monday hit targets hundreds of miles inside Russia, the deepest Ukrainian drone strikes in Russian territory since the February 24 invasion. Later on Monday, Russia launched another massive missile barrage across Ukraine, targeting energy infrastructure.
The Kremlin said Tuesday that it’s taking necessary measures to counter the attacks. “Certainly, the push for such terror attacks to continue being openly announced by the Kiev regime is a risk. Of course, it is being taken into account, with all necessary measures being taken,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
Kyiv hasn’t officially taken credit for Monday’s attacks, but a senior Ukrainian official speaking on the condition of anonymity to The New York Times said Ukraine’s forces were responsible. The official said the drones were launched from Ukraine and claimed Ukrainian special forces inside Russia helped hit one of the targets. Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to President Volodymyr Zelensky, also hinted at Ukraine’s involvement.
Russia has demonstrated that it will significantly escalate its war in Ukraine in response to attacks on its territory. Moscow didn’t start launching large-scale missile strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure until after the truck bombing of the Crimean bridge in October.
The US has sought assurances from Ukraine that it won’t use US-provided arms to target Russian territory, with an exception for Crimea, which Russia has controlled since 2014. Russia said that the drones used in the Monday attacks were “Soviet-made.”
State Department spokesman Ned Price said Tuesday that the US was not helping Ukraine strike inside Russia. “We are not enabling Ukraine to strike beyond its borders. We are not encouraging Ukraine to strike beyond its borders,” he said.
Not really that interesting after the first ones yesterday. The US is trying to get Russia to do something stupid. Russia is stubbornly refusing to do something stupid.
This IS a good way to assure that the rest of the world unites behind Russia.
Umm Russia has already done something stupid.
You mean not retaliating against US in 2014?
If the US does not put a stop to bombing deep inside Russia, regardless of which forces actually performed the stunt, you probably will not like the result much.
Pfft Russia has been exposed as a paper bear.
Enough Americans believe this that it is inevitable that Russia retaliates in an unfriendly way.
This is just your way of maximizing the odds of Russian missiles landing in London, or in a US military base on US mainland soil.
IDK. This is a pretty major escalation. The pressure on Kremlin to retaliate against terrorist empire is enormous.
This seems to be very very true. I would say that over 90% of Russians are calling on Putin to escalate. The tone of the pro-Russian sites I have checked recently has definitely changed.
My ‘not very interesting’ comment seems to have described the exact opposite of reality.
The comments of people claiming that this is not a US war is another good way for Americans to smear the reputation of the US (even further), and increase pressure on the Kremlin to act more aggressively to oppose the US.
This will not turn out well for the US.
Obviously war with Eurasia isn’t in the interest of people of the USA but US is not a free country. It does not have a democratic government that reflect interests of the people. We have a parasitical, totalitarian regime in Washington.
Truth has never been such an unpalatable pill!
I suspect this is the work of British Intelligence. It weakens the case for the US to send longer range HIMAR missiles. Also, the British Ministry of Defense didn’t waste any time saying that they expect it will cause finger pointing within the Russian command structure.
This could very well be true. UK bombing Russia gives Russia a causum bellum for bombing London. The pro-Russian sites are … not happy. I hope that the Kremlin shows restraint. It will get more and more difficult for Russia to not respond if the US does not put an end to these types of attacks.
Ukraine seeks to expand the war, to pull in more help from NATO.
These strikes are done to provoke.
Will the Russians be provoked? Well, the whole war is them finally being provoked by a long course of poking and prodding. So it could happen.
However, Russia’s advantage is from destroying Ukraine, not from getting more help to Ukraine. So they’ll probably stay out of strikes on Poland and Romania, unless the support coming from there gets so serious they can no longer ignore it. It is the same calculus as the US Neutrality Patrol in 1941 against Nazi submarines in the Atlantic.
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“Russia’s advantage is from destroying Ukraine. . .”
So the war to “liberate” Ukraine from an exagerrated Nazi threat is now a war to destroy the nation and its people. Putin can’t accept defeat so he has now gone to war against the Ukrainian nation. Sad. I expected better from him. He no longer has a plan. Within a few days of his phony annexation of the four oblasts, he was forcibly removing the people of Kherson before retreating across the Dnipro. This is a busted plan and the man is flailing at straws. The war will end when Russia gets a leadership that can accept that Putin led his country to an unnecessary defeat that only accelerated the decline of the Russian Federation.
Sad to say, but it is the U.S. that cannot accept defeat, especially given the dismal record on Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Viet Nam.
The US is not at war in Ukraine. The US is supporting the Ukrainian resistance. The Ukrainians are fighting for their country and their independence. The US is opportunistically using Putin’s blunder to bleed Russia. Yes, the US provoked the war. And I make no excuses for US imperialism. But Putin took the bait and led his country to this debacle.
Are you ever naive. The U.S. has been pushing for this war for a long time and is definitely a co-belligerent. The. U.S. is definitely at war with Russia. Sanctions are an act of war. The U.S. has been sanctioning Russia, trying to destroy her economy for many years now. How long do you think the U.S. would take that same treatment from another country?
How many US soldiers killed?
They aren’t reporting the deaths of Americans in the mainstream media.
That is true, one explanation is… because there aren’t any.
Another explanation is that they don’t want the American people to know the truth, which is usually the case.
While the powers that be wouldn’t want that it does get out, when the Seals strangled the Green Beret somewhere in Africa, you can bet they didn’t want that story to get out, but it did.
sure, sure. I like your silly denial. It’s cute. Facts are pretty stubborn though. Here are few of your grunts getting popped like flies.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/71YVp0SAg5DS/
Maybe the MSM is keeping US casualties secret. So how many Americans have been killed compared to the thousands of Russian casualties? This is not a US war no matter how much the Kremlin and its apologists try to spin it that way.
Timothy Griffin who recently died fighting in Ukraine has been identified as an American. I am sure there are other Americans fighting over there as mercenaries or NATO soldiers.
And thousands of nameless Russian soldiers have been slaughtered in Ukraine in the service of a regime fighting an unjust war. No comparision.
For Russia this is a just war, and for the U.S. it is an unjust war. The U.S. pushed for this war, has been funding it, training soldiers to fight Russians, and has been supplying Zelensky and his Neo-Nazis with lethal weaponry. The U.S. is a co-belligerent with Ukraine. Try listening to Scott Ritter’s recent talk at the U of Michigan a few days ago and learn something.
How can you call Zelenskyy a Neo-Nazi? Where is the evidence of that?
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Zelensky has thrown in with the Neo-Nazis. Stepan Bandera is regarded as a hero in Zelensky’s Ukraine.
Any evidence that there is any official support for these people before the SMO? Because once the SMO was in full swing there is a pretty good rationale for not discarding some of the better motivated fighters.
Any evidence that Zelenskyy has actually supported neo Nazi’s even after the SMO?
The rightwing extremists got a lot of support when the Russians annexed Crimea and supported a separatist war in the Donbas in 2014.
Little surprise they get a boost when the Russians attack full scale in 2022 – the Russian’s actions are the biggest driver for their support, while there was less active conflict they lost their representation in parliament.
I never get tired of sharing this with the BS Ukrainian Neo Nazi repeaters.
Truth hurts sometimes.
https://youtu.be/XQc6mJ7u8gQ
Repeated Russian propaganda but Ok… Hasn’t Putin thrown in with Wagner Group and other Neo Nazi linked groups? Aren’t there Russian Neo Nazis fighting Putin’s war in Ukraine?
“For Russia and the US this is just a war.”
Fixed, no charge.
Is that Scott Ritter, the former UNSCOM Inspector and 2001 sex offender that went rogue for personal gains?
He was charged in June 2001 with trying to set up a meeting with an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl.
Must have been a witch-hunt.
I do give him credit for some of his talking points just as much as I give credit to some folks here that oppose my views sometimes.
You don’t like the message so you are trying to kill the messenger.
This actually is evidence that the US is not directly involved as it shows that the news of even single volunteers is not silenced.
Thus the idea that any substantial active service men dying while in the service of their country (the US) would be very difficult to keep out of the media.
The notion that there could be a significant uptick in service men dying and not have some of the families noticing is not supported by any previous ‘wars’ and most of them were carried out in ages of much poorer communication.
Does the U.S. supply NATO with American troops for NATO’s army?
No the US does not supply NATO with American troops – the troops the US places in NATO countries are AFAIK always under US command. In some cases other NATO members have provided their troops to fight under a common NATO commander – but I cannot remember the US doing so.
The idea that there is a NATO army is a bit of a misnomer (I guess) as there have seldom been any one army – at most there have been NATO missions, but in most cases I can remember even the Danish contingent have operated as independent sub divisions under their own command – that independence is not entirely made up, though it may at times seem so.
I doubt that the US being entirely capable of forming entirely self sufficient fighting groups would ever be taking orders from a NATO army commander – though technically I guess it could happen – but perhaps US law would prevent it?
I did a little research on this. In 2022 the U.S. had the largest number of military personnel out of all NATO countries serving NATO with 1.35 million military personnel. Turkey ranked 2nd with 447,000. You can bet there are Americans all over western Ukraine and in neighboring countries ready to step in.
Yes that sounds quite likely, that however is a very different thing from the U.S. supplying NATO with American troops for NATO’s army! As these US troops are not under a non US command. So not the right answer to the question you asked. These are US troops stationed on NATO bases in NATO countries.
To you it may seem like the right answer but I assure you there is a difference.
Beats me! I just know that America is all over this Ukraine War like ugly on an ape!
Well the US is certainly a big supplier of arms and other assistance – if we measure it as share of GDP the US is however not at the top but on the 8’th place:
https://www.statista.com/chart/27331/countries-committing-the-most-of-their-gdp-to-ukraine-aid/
If you phrase the question like you did, it sounds as if NATO was somehow in control of the US troops (which is why I formulated my answer as I did) that is not the case, rather the other way around (as you also imply) i.e. if there was/is to be any direct NATO action because of what is going on in Ukraine then the US will be in the lead – not taking orders.
About a 1000. Most of their corpses are burned or blown up to dust so you will not be getting back nice caskets wrapped in Yankee flag.
Why do you think the US was pushing for this war? Because a Russian invasion of Ukraine works to the advantage of the US. Putin was stupid to take the bait. And the US is not a co-belligerent. Thousands of Russian troops have died and the Russian military has been degraded. The US has not lost a a single soldier and has kept this war going by giving Ukraine obsolete ordinance and increasing profits to the MIC. Meanwhile Russia sinks deeper into a war that it can’t win.
I have no sympathy for the US or the Russian imperialists. My sympathy is with the Ukrainian people who are fighting for their families, their homeland and their right to self determination.
Give yourself a nice pat on the back for internet’s best virtue signaling comment.
“US is not at war in Ukraine”
😂
How many US troops have died in the Ukraine war?
The US combat role in Ukraine is a lot like the USSR’s role in Vietnam where the US lost 58,000 soldiers while the Russians lost 16 over a 14 year period. The Vietnamese lost about 2 million, mostly civilians.
Your example is excellent. This is a proxy war between the US and Russia, except that the US is playing the role Russia played in Viet Nam and Russia is playing the role the US played there.
I generally agree except that Vietnam was a war between the Vietnamese nation and the US imperialists and Ukraine is a war between Ukrainian nationalists and Russian imperialists. The US and USSR played supporting roles and didn’t have complete control over the nationalists they supported. It is important for us to recognize that the US cannot agree to peace terms on behalf of the Ukrainians any more than the Russians or Chinese could Agree to peace terms for the Vietnamese. Peace will only come to Ukraine when the Russians come to an agreement and the Russians leave. The US imperialists are opportunistically supporting the Ukrainian national resistance movement. But the US did not create Ukrainian nationalism and can’t control it any more than the US could control the mujahideen it supported against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Why are you being so literal?
“No boots on the ground” does not recuse Amerikkka’s involvement, including the supplication of weapons, intelligence ( if one can call it that) and military training for Ukrainian troops.
But, noooooo….Amerikka isn’t involved in the war 😂
I never said the US was not involved in Ukraine. The US is playing a similar role in the Ukraine war that the USSR played in the Vietnamese war or that the US played in the war between Afghanistan and the USSR.
… US puppet gov’t, with US funding (Gov’t & Military), training, weapons & supplies, tactical advisors, intel & targeting, propaganda narrative, and enforcing NATO support/(alliance). It is a war in Ukraine, but not a Ukraine war. Zelensky had to promise restoring good relations with Russia to get elected in a sham election, and the battlefield blood is not being shed by Ukrainian volunteers.
Nice. The more Russians get bombed, the more helpless they look against the Imperial of Ukraine.
All it does is solidifying Russian public opinion on war. At the beginning of war an idea to destroy energy facilities of Ukraine woukd have been shocking, Now, majority is for tighteng war effort to not allow Ukrainian military having all the conveniences of electricity and rail infrastructure for their operations. For Russian leadership it is absolutely critical to have a firm support by public. This is why all decisions tend to be a following indicator indicating public moon. Russia like alm other countries have infrastructure of foteign opinion makers at all times influencing publuc opinion. Those are now sidelined in Russia. That deinitely eas not the case at the beginning of conflict.
From the few pro-Russian sources I checked out, you seem to be underestimating how enraged the Russians are.
From what I can tell, the pressure on the Kremlin to escalate will be difficult for them to resist.
Putin just can’t understand that the Ukrainians will fight back until the Russians leave their country. His phony crusade to liberate Ukraine from a nonexistent Nazi regime has only inflicted misery on the Ukraine, hardship on the world and accelerated the collapse of Russian imperialism. The simple fact that the Ukrainians are continuing to fight back after 10 months is evidence that the Russians have lost. Like Hitler, LBJ, Nixon, Bush, Obama and Brezhnev, Putin responded to resistance with escalation which only strengthened the resistance. Putin lost the hearts and minds of the Ukrainian people. Like LBJ and Nixon he is escalating to criminal brutal measures deliberately targeting the civilian population. These are collective punishments meted out by imperialists like the US and Israelis regimes that mobilize and unite the victims and strengthen the resistance. Russia is now fighting a forever war that can only end when Russia gets a leadership that will end Putin’s folly and withdraw from the Ukraine.
Ukraine will threaten Russia, more and more, again and again, until it is finally destroyed. That is coming.
So much for liberating Ukraine from an exaggerated Nazi threat. Every imperialist war has a noble sounding excuse. And when the invader can’t win the hearts and minds of the invaded they end with escalation feeding resistance leading to the invader’s ignominious defeat.
You missed that it was the US Regime change coup that set this debacle in motion. Russian involvement was AFTER that coup. The US and the EU claim that they are supporting a freedom loving democracy is a sick joke. Ukraine is a despotic and oppressive state.
BTW, where is that missing $20 billions? How much was stolen from the EU also? Criminals!
Russian involvement in Ukraine goes back to the first Czar’s proclamation that he was ruler of “all the Russia” including Ukraine. Russian involvement continued to when Catherine the Great’s armies captured all of Ukraine and the Czars attempted the forced assimilation of Ukraine. During the nineteenth and early twentieth century the Czars outlawed Ukrainian language, literature, culture, religion and even outlawed Ukrainian names. For centuries Ukrainians have resented Russian oppression that continued into the days of theSoviet Union when Stalin forcibly collectivized krainian agriculture and instigated a famine that starved hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of Ukrainians.
The Euromaidan Coup was just one bump in a long chain of events going back centuries. I thought Putin was smart enough to understand the folly of Russia invading Ukraine. But he did it and now he can’t accept how it backfired.
How does any of this pertain to the US backed coup in 2014?
You can play history games
If you can’t figure out the historical context of this war I can’t help you. It did not begin in 2014 or 1991.
Need I remind you who invaded who?
Ukraine threatening Russia? Get out of here.
Better idea: The America and the EU people will recognize their governments are not representing the interests of their populations. Withdraw their support of the corrupt and repressive Kiev Nazi infected regime.
Take a look at the video of John McCain, Lindsey Graham and other U.S. Senators pumping up the Ukrainians to fight Russia by promising them all kinds of military help.
I saw it many years ago. John McCain did look a little uncomfortable.
Yes, he probably knew that the Grim Reaper was coming for him soon.
You just cut and paste this stuff?
Great summary capture. Fairly objective if you ask me But wait for it… Enter the usual US haters.
You already entered. YOU are the one cheer leading US actions that harm the US and turn a large part of the world against the US.
In comments discussing articles about India continuing to buy as much Russian product as can be delivered, Americans angrily discuss the need for sanctions against India and sending Indians working in the US back to India.
This is your side intentionally sabotaging the US by driving India right into a more solid alliance with Russia and China.
Your side has already united Russia and China. Now you are adding India to their alliance.
I read this on RT news. Not even Russians believe this BS.
Good regurgitation of the garbage being shelled out on an hourly basis by once respectable western journalists. Thing is there’s this thing called history and there are enough of us still alive who lived through it. You’d have to kill us all off to validate the fairy tales you spew here daily.
“His phony crusade to liberate Ukraine from a nonexistent Nazi regime has only inflicted misery on the Ukraine, hardship on the world and accelerated the collapse of Russian imperialism.”
What is your real reason for hating Putin? Could it be because Putin has clamped down on GLBTQ propaganda aimed at Russian kids?
I’ve seen the pictures of the Neo-Nazi soldiers in Ukraine with their Nazi tattoos and Nazi emblems on their uniforms. If you don’t think there is a strong Neo-Nazi force in Ukraine, then you are being purposely obtuse.
Putin is a dictator, an imperialist and a Russian chauvinist. But I have supported some of Putin’s positions when opposes US imperialism. So when Putin opposes sanctions on Iran, Cuba and Venezuela, I support his policies. But when Putin launches a war of aggression against the Ukraine I see it for what it is and condemn Putin’s war.
There are neo-Nazis in all the Slavic countries, including Russia. But the ultra right party got less than 2% of the vote in the last Ukrainian election. Zelenskyy is hardly a Nazi and he opposed the ultra nationalists when he ran.
Zelensky ran on the platform of wanting to fulfill the Minsk Accords and have better relations with Russia. Once in office the little worm turned. He’s a puppet for the U.S. and the oligarchs. If you think there are no neo-Nazis in Ukraine you are really deluded. You need to open your horizons and quit following the official narrative on Ukraine and Russia. I suggest you check out some foreign news correspondents to get a more accurate picture. You just can’t trust our State Department, MIC, and controlled news media.
“War is the continuation of policy with other means.”
“Drone Attack Hits Another Air Base Inside Russian Territory The attack caused a fire at an airfield in the city of Kursk”
Russia asked for negotiations in 2020 and 2021. Russia asked for negotiations up until yesterday.
Now since Zelensky is responsible for drone strikes deep inside Russia : Russia is done asking for a diplomatic solution.
Now Russia is going to negotiate with a full scale military assault on Ukraine. To bad so sad but Ukraine is about to become dust and it will be swept into the dust bin of history.
Carl von Clausewitz had many aphorisms, of which the most famous is “War is the continuation of policy with other means.”
Ukraine doesn’t exist as a sovereign state. It ended in 2014 with a violent coup. What we have today is occupied territory.
A Neocon/Nazi colony.
Agree 100%.
During the deep penetration of Russia and drone attack evil witch Victoria Nuland number 3 in the US State Department was meeting with Zelensky in Kiev. There is your smoking gun. America once again attacking Russia through their proxy Ukraine and hiding their disgusting deeds.
OK, this is Ukraine (US) answer to the noises of peace negotiations. With elections over, beocons are riding high. Voters hust gave them the blank check!
Well, on to next phase of escallation.