Russia launched a series of missile strikes across Ukraine on Thursday in one of the heaviest Russian bombardments in weeks.
The strikes targeted energy infrastructure, and Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said power facilities were hit in eight regions of Ukraine. “Generation and distribution facilities in eight regions have been damaged,” he said on Telegram.
Ukrainian authorities said the strikes also hit residential buildings, and six people were reported killed. Moscow said the strikes also targeted Ukrainian military facilities.
The Russian Defense Ministry said the strikes were launched in retaliation over an attack in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast, which borders Ukraine. The Defense Ministry said hypersonic missiles were used in the bombardment.
“In response to the terror attacks carried out by the Kiev regime in the Bryansk Region on March 2, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a massive retaliatory strike. Long-range air, sea, and ground-based high-precision weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, hit key Ukrainian military infrastructure sites, enterprises of the military-industrial complex and related energy facilities,” Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman said.
Moscow accused Ukrainian saboteurs of killing two civilians in the attack in Bryansk, which Kyiv has denied. A group known as the Russian Volunteer Corps that’s fighting for Ukraine took responsibility for the raid. The group’s leader, Denis Nikitin, said he was unaware of casualties and claimed the attack was carried out with the support of the Ukrainian government. According to the Financial Times, Nikitin is considered an extremist and has “ties to neo-Nazis and white nationalists across the western world.”
The Russian Volunteer Corps is part of Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces and was formed in 2022. It’s made up of Russians who have been fighting for Ukraine since 2014, including former members of the neo-Nazi Azov Regiment. According to UnHerd, elements of the group are “overtly sympathetic to neo-Nazi ideology and praise Hitler on Telegram.”
Is it time to clean out the bunker?………………………………………………….
Russia is not very good at knocking out the power. You would think it would take weeks or months to rebuild it after a strike but it is up and running the next day in most instances.
History does nothing, if not repeat itself…
“In response to the terror attacks carried out by the Kiev regime in the Bryansk Region on March 2, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a massive retaliatory strike“
Terror attacks? Says the country that has been terrorizing Ukraine for over a year. What a bunch of losers. This is embarrassing.
There is not a good way out of this sh!t show for Putin.
The de-nazifier will get de-nazified soon.
“Russia Launches Barrage of Missile Strikes Across Ukraine. Moscow says the strikes were retaliation for an attack in Bryansk”
Mostly a great analysis by Col. Douglas Macgregor however; photos of a destroyed home were suspect.
The home in Zolochiv suffered an explosion which many believe was caused by an S300 Surface to Air Missile – SAM that failed in it’s launch or intercept phase and landed on the house in Zolochiv!
The S300 has a 180 Kg / 396 Lb high explosive warhead. The mass of the S300 is around 1900 Kg / 4200 Lbs. Combined with unused fuel the S300 can cause a great deal of destruction against targets which are not hardened, such as farm houses.
This is not the first S300 to cause death and destruction. Remember the S300 which Ukraine launched into Poland that killed two Polish
citizens.
The Russian MOD is fighting a very successful war of attrition disarming NATO (Ukraine was disarmed in March), tank by tank, artillery by artillery, air defense by air defense.
NATO overall has accumulated the following equipment losses;
400 Aircraft, 218 helicopters, 3373 UAV’s, 411 Anti Aircraft systems, 8249 tanks inc. APC’s, 1055 multiple rocket launchers, 4315 rocket launchers and 8830 military automotive equipment.
What the empire looses in the Ukraine, they loose for the final Russian attack on NATO. Remember Russia attacked Ukraine just as NATO was about to unleash in the Donbass. Russia has shown they will pre-emptively attack to defend the Motherland when the time is dictated by events on the ground.
NATO is the aggressor. Russia should put missiles back in Cuba since NATO puts them on their borders.
US is the new Roman Empire corrupt ruthless and evil.
NATO has not put any missiles in even one of the members that have joined since 1991, and the US has to face the threat that the Russians can have nuclear armed submarines closer to their capital and any place in the US than Cuba is, so why would you think this would change anything?
As for NATO being the aggressor – what part of Ukraine did NATO invade?
You are mistaken we have nuke capable missiles in Poland and we use nuke subs also .US promised it would not recruit former Warsaw Pact nations into NATO or move closer to Russian borders.
If Russia put troops and missiles in Canada and Mexico and Cuba would that be “aggressive”. ? Russia was deliberately provoked by neo-con psychopaths. US has 405 military bases surrounding China and Russia and around the world; how many do they have outside their national boundaries? USA is the new Roman Empire.
nuclear capable is not having nuclear missiles stationed in Poland and the US does not have ballistic missiles capable of reaching e.g. Moscow in Poland so…
The US did not recruit former Warsaw pact nations they applied very much by themselves and they had to qualify to be accepted by the rest of the NATO members.
Not if they did so at the request of the Mexicans the Cubans or the Canadians – but then neither the Mexicans nor the Canadians are ever likely to ask – as for the Cubans, they may ask but I do not think that the US would feel very threatned.
The Russians and the Chinese have few bases outside their territory as few would want their protection – the US has bases in some nations which would rather not have them there, but most nations are actually not very eager to have the US leave – the Philippines have just negotiated to have US bases on their territory and after having the US leave 30 years ago – the fact is that many nations want US bases there to protect them from those very friendly Russians and Chinese.
https://time.com/6252750/philippines-us-military-agreement-china/
I agree with your first three points. As for US bases in foreign countries, many of them are concessions by corrupt regimes seeking perks from the US or by regimes that are more afraid of their own people than external enemies, like Saudi Arabia. The US is the major imperialist nation in the world and has bases in many countries where the regimes don’t reflect the will of the people.
There is a very significant component of this as there is cases like Cuba where it is not even according to the current desire of the government. My point is that this is not the case everywhere – very far from it, and that as the case of the Philippines show quite a few of the nations do not have a horrible experience having hosted such bases and are hence willing to host such bases again when their security situations warants it.
Or to put it a different way – the US bases are very far from always used to keep the domestic population in check – so you might find that a post revolution democratized Saudi Arabia might very well vote to host a US base to keep safe from Iran – it is very far from certain, but under the right threat the problems they have with the US is that they are infidels not that they were patrolling the streets shooting protesters.
Hosted bases bring dollars.
Good story Bro.
OMG. Now you’re on about the Chinese as well?
What have the Chinese ever done to your country?
BTW, I grew up in the 60’s and I can assure you that Amerikkka was very, very upset at the thought of Russian nukes in Cuba. Fortunately we had a leader ( the last one in my memory) with a cooler head.
The Chinese have tried partially successful to curb freedom of speech in my country, NB I only included China because Top Paine mentioned it.
Yes because at the time the ability of submarines to replace land based nukes was at a very limited level – things have changed since then, thus the need to get all up in arms should the Russians station nukes in Cuba is no longer there – at least not from a military standpoint.
Kennedy if not for a very coolheaded Soviet submarine commander willing to break nuclear retaliation protocol, actually provoked what according to Soviet protocol should have resulted in a launch of his nuclear torpedo’s on US war ships.
Are you sure that you would call that cooler heads?
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2022-10-03/soviet-submarines-nuclear-torpedoes-cuban-missile-crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov
NATO invaded Kiev, they overthrew the Government in a violent bloody coup. NATO shot and murdered police and civilians in the Maidan. Brian Christopher Boyenger a US Trooper ran a crew of 50 NATO snipers in the Ukraina Hotel.
Viktor Yanukovych the elected President fled for his life to Russia, he fled from the NATO Nazi’s who were going to assassinate him.
NATO then started a campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide of the ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Brian Christopher Boyenger was embedded with the Right Secter and Azov Nazi’s committing atrocities in the Donbass, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
NATO took over the attack on Russia after Ukraine was defeated in March 2022. Boris Johnson cancelled peace and committed NATO to war against Russia.
Except that was not what happened not even according to the Russians involved – you should know this:
It’s a case of the very pro Russians agents admitting that they were behind it – I can find many more such admissions and I should remind the possibly ignorant readers that Igor Girkin was elevated to serve as Minister of Defence of the Donetsk People’s Republic so not a nobody in this!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Girkin
And finally there was no NATO troops in Ukraine starting any ethnic cleansing!
Grammar is our friend. Try to use it properly.
So you are a grammar Nazi – good to know!
I have to agree with you on this. Grammar should not get in the way of your misguided world views.
This video should be posted each time the pro Russia folks here bring up the 2014 coup that ‘started’ the war.
Wow- the Ukraine’s “relationship” with NATO/USA has really done wonders for it, hasn’t it? If the Coup of 2014 hadn’t been perpetrated by the USA, there would be peace and prosperity now, not death and destruction. It looks like someone in the Ukraine made the “wrong” decision when picking friends! With friends like NATO/USA, who needs enemies?
It wasn’t as amply proven by the following elections and the support the current government enjoys – not the kind of support foreign imposed governments most often enjoys – remember e.g. Afghanistan.
Good of you to let it slip that this was indeed the decision of the Ukrainians – add to this that you do not think that they should have the sovereignty to make such a choice without having Putin invading and you may get a picture of why it is so many support the Ukrainians.
They should be free to chose their friends with whom they want to align and trade without facing a Russian invasion – you are here arguing that it is right to invade a foreign country because of the choices their population have taken – pretty damned pathetic on an anti war site.
Write your Congressman and tell them to lift all sanctions on all nations because “they should be free to choose their friends. Stop using economy as a weapon.
I’m not a US citizen, and I did not argue that Russia did not have the freedom to apply sanctions to Ukraine – as the US did to Cuba – applying sanctions is much the same as having the freedom to chose with whom you want to trade and with whom you do not want to trade.
You seem to have confused the freedom to chose with whom you want to trade with the right to invade – these are two very different things!
Michael, have you eaten too many of Nuland’s cookies? You appear to be on a sugar high…
I get that you don’t do history. Try someplace beyond the NYT and other satellite mouthpieces for the CIA et al.
Find me just one link that shows that NATO has put nukes in one of the countries which joined post 1991. Or just one that proves that NATO or the US attacked either Ukraine or Russia at any time between 2013 and 2022 – just one will do!
Otherwise we can surmise that it is you who do neither facts nor history.
It is not long ago that I read analyses which claimed that the Russians would be out of rockets soon.
Then I remembered the miracle of the production of the T32 tank during WW2.
That is why these analysts were wrong.
Lies, lies, and more lies that are shown in this video.
Yes it is clearly evidenced by the ever increasing Russian use of missiles, which was completely able to effectively curb Ukrainian electricity production – oh wait no that was not the case, so just perhaps it is true that they are now nearly reduced use missiles at about the rate of production – i.e. they have depleted their stock of missiles to a level beyond which they do not want to deplete them.
“They’ve depleted their stock of missiles” is one plausible explanation. But it’s not the only one.
Another plausible explanation is “they have plenty of missiles but haven’t yet figured out how to (or if they even can) use them to real military advantage in this particular conflict.”
Pretty much all the news coverage of military happenings in Ukraine is narrative shaped by the side the outfits covering those happenings favors. Whenever one side takes some action, that side’s supporters brag about how successful it was in this or that respect, while the other side’s supporters snort that it’s a big nothingburger.
My impression — and it’s only my impression — is that Russian missile strikes on “Ukrainian infrastructure” haven’t tipped any significant military balances, and that the civilian casualties involved are more likely a function of Ukrainian air defenses intercepting those missiles and knocking them off course than of an intention to inflict those casualties, or to create terror/panic. But that doesn’t really tell us anything about how many missiles the Russians have. They could have plenty, and only using a few to rattle Ukraine’s cage at the moment, while planning to use a lot more of them in coordination with a coming ground offensive.
They were on a winning streak in November 2022 – as in had they kept up the intensity or just elevated it slightly then the Ukrainians would not have been able to keep up with the repair works – the Russians did however not keep up the level but instead allowed it to drop off to the degree that there was no serious implications in Ukraine.
Had your explanation been the truth then why did they continue wasting missiles as long as they did on a venture that was not worth the expense? – Notice that I’m not claiming that the strikes were a nothing burger, but that they were indeed a mortal threat to the electricity grid and one that had it been kept up at a just slightly elevated level or even just at the level of November would have caused a collapse in the electricity network.
The strikes were primarily directed at the electricity network – the goal which was within their grasp had they kept up the level of successful strikes for just about a month more, was clearly not achieved.
I concur – anything different would require that I thought the Russians completely incompetent – I do not.
Given that it was a near public knowledge that the Ukrainians were on the brink of a complete collapse – it would be quite remarkable if the Russians just let them off the hook at that very late stage, basically making the strikes up until then a complete waste of missiles.
I sincerely doubt that they had so any as to take the Ukrainian electricity network to the brink of collapse – only then to decide that this was just a threat and keeping a huge reserve for a later offensive – especially as they used so many resources trying to finally take Bakhmut only to fail at the last minute before the one year anniversary.
I could be wrong, but if I am I would think that there will be a significant amount of Russian widows and cripples who would quite rightly be very angry at the priorities.
I consider these barrage of missile strikes as knock on door. Will Ukraine finally open the door?
More Fog of War claim/counter claims: