The acting governor of Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine’s southern Kherson Oblast said Sunday that Ukrainian forces used British-provided Storm Shadow missiles to strike a bridge that connects Kherson to Crimea.
Vladimir Saldo said the Ukrainian attack struck the Chongar Bridge and the village of Chongar in southern Kherson. “Kiev’s terrorists shelled the Chongar Bridge and the settlement of Chongar with NATO’s Storm Shadows,” Saldo wrote on Telegram.
Saldo also claimed that Storm Shadow missiles damaged a school. “The bridge was damaged by a missile, but the most vile thing done by the Kiev regime is that a school in the settlement was hit,” he said. No casualties were reported in the Ukrainian attack.
The UK began providing Ukraine with Storm Shadow missiles back in May, which marked a significant escalation of NATO support. France announced in July that it would begin supplying Ukraine with its version of the Storm Shadows, known as SCALP missiles.
Storm Shadows are air-fired and have a range of 155 miles, much longer than the munitions the US has been providing Ukraine for the HIMARS artillery rocket systems.
The primary munitions Ukraine has been using with the HIMARS have a range of up to 50 miles, although there have been reports of Kyiv using US-provided Ground Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB), which can hit targets up to 94 miles away. The US is still holding off on giving Kyiv Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), which have a range of 190 miles.
“Russia Says Ukraine Used Storm Shadow Missiles to Hit Bridge Connecting Kherson to Crimea
Hopefully London’s Tower Bridge will be hit!”
Hopefully the Russian leadership isn’t that stupid. Or at least likes Red Square enough to not want it to become a smoking crater.
If the US, UK or NATO launched a nuclear strike against Moscow then London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Washington D.C. would be flattened, as well. You do understand that fact, yes?
I didn’t say anything about a “nuclear strike.” But yes, I do understand that.
And so do the Russians.
And the Russians are not idiots. Therefore they are unlikely to do something idiotic — like launch any kind of strike on London — that would open the MAD can of worms.
No, no. Tommy didn’t mention nukes. The ‘smoking crater’ will be created by pure will of Glorious NATO ALLIANCE against evil Putin’s war machine.
No nukes needed. Moscow is within range of submarine-launched Tomahawks from the Baltic. And the UK has both missile subs and Tomahawks.
All major US cities are within range of Russian ‘submarine-launched” missiles, which pale Tomahawks into insignificance. Hopefully, the one you reside in will be hit first and the hardest. Once that’s sorted, blowing the US and subservient vermin subs out of the Baltic shouldn’t be a problem.
Don’t make me laugh. English rust wont even get in range before getting popped by Baltic Fleet and your Tomahawks proved its worth in Syria. No range, no speed. May as well use your F35 as kamikaze drones.
I don’t have any Tomahawks or F35s.
But for once you show a glimmer of having a clue as to what you’re talking about — the F35 does indeed seem to be trash.
The Tomahawks might have middle fingers painted on them that are visible on Baltic Fleet radar in the short time it takes them to fly past uncontested.
Right. Like all of them flew by Russian air defenses in Syria. Even imperial propaganda admitted it didn’t hit a damn thing.
Yes, unlike you, I do know what I’m talking about. Cruise missile was invented in the USSR. Soviet weapons are superior to Pentagon trash. It’s proven every day in Ukraine, never mind modern Russian weapons. Tomahawk is garbage when compered to Soviet Kalibr missiles. Completely inferior. It would not be able to make a ‘smocking creator’ out of Billy Microshaft’s residence, never mind the Red Square. So your cowardly attempt to back out with your ‘no nukes’ claim is null.
Someday Russia will wake and the sleeping giant bear will eliminate British assets.
Tommy, did anyone ever tell you that you have very vivid imagination? How exactly do you imagine Red Square becoming smoking crater? The ultimate Captain America strike with top of the line Patriot AI-guided Trident submarines? Or perhaps it’s the NASA shuttle space fleet that will be ‘smocking’ Red Square from orbit? Or maybe Superman with Batman and Spiderman? Please share your fantasies with us.
The same way that Russia would make anything into a smoking crater: A missile strike.
I know you fantasize that Russia has perfect missiles and the US has useless sh*t, and that Russia has perfect missile defenses and the US has useless sh*t, but the problem with fantasies is that they aren’t real.
So a magic missile strike from a magic, invisible aircraft carrier in Mongolian Sea? The magic SuperPatriot missile itself is made from indestructible bullshitanium and impervious to all hypersonic missile defenses.
Unlike you, I live in a real world and I assess military capabilities based on real data, not little feel-good propaganda you get about “superior” US military capabilities.
You “assess” military capabilities in much the same way you probably “assess” porn. By fantasizing and wanking.
Very interesting choice in impotent retort.
Changing the subject ever so slightly, have you tried viagra?
“Hopefully London’s Tower Bridge will be hit!”
Do you live in the Southern Hemisphere? If so, you’d probably live somewhat longer in the aftermath of the attack you hope for than those in the other latitudinal hemisphere. If not . . . you should be careful what you wish for.
Yes, I line in Southeast Asia, far from the nuke winter!
OK. Think of us poor antiwar northerners, please.
Although he’ll just be dead a little later. Or maybe Singapore has a dome.
Why do you think exterminating some Pentagon or English filth will start a nuclear war? So far the imperial propaganda is just doing the usual lying and covering up. How many Pentagon generals Russians already killed in Ukraine? I don’t see any problem with terminating some oligarchs in England. Their propaganda rags will just dismiss it as an accident or something.
“Why do you think exterminating some Pentagon or English filth will start a nuclear war”
I think it because I have a solid basic understanding of geopolitical reality and the nature of the players in this deadly game. You won’t find many who understand the basics who think otherwise. Indeed, thinking otherwise is an almost sure sign that the thinker is detached from reality.
I think a bullet to the head of all that Anglo-American imperial filth is a realistic approach to current geopolitical issues. Very practical and economic solution. I hate to agree with Murdoch propaganda, but one of their propagandists have said: “Cut the head from the snake and snake dies” Cutting all the heads from United Snakes is a perfect solution, imo. Or do you believe pitiful existence of these parasites is somehow above people in US and England? Are you willing to sacrifice yourself and your family for some degenerate oligarch in US or England?
“Are you willing to sacrifice yourself and your family for some degenerate oligarch in US or England?”
No, and that, together with not wanting to sacrifice hundreds of millions or billions of other humans, destroying civilization as we know it, and making the biosphere intolerable for lifeforms in general, is exactly why I think your desire for a nuke attack on the Tower Bridge is batshit crazy. 🙄
wtf? How did we get to nuke attack on the bridge?
You can’t be this clueless. You’re obviously a bright person.
You must be pretending.
I am clueless why do you believe I want to destroy a bridge in London. I’m against harming innocent buildings and civilian infrastructure even if there is a 100% chance it will exterminate imperial parasites. Never even mind harming people.
There are better methods to deal with imperial filth than nukes.
He didn’t specify that the attack be nuclear.
He has a high opinion of Russian missiles and a low opinion of US missiles, such that he thinks the Russians could successfully hit the Tower Bridge with e.g. Kalibrs, then successfully prevent a retaliatory strike with e.g. Tomahawks.
I don’t have any opinion on whether the Russians could successfully launch such a strike. But my well-informed opinion is that there would be an equally damaging or more damaging retaliatory strike, after which Putin would knock that shit off. If, that is, he was stupid enough to try it in the first place, which I don’t think he is.
To be fair, Иван also seems to believe that the Russians could go nuclear with impunity, which is at least as stupid, if not more so, than the Tower Bridge strike fantasy.
I don’t need you to speak for me, you little coward.
Yes, but others encountering you for the first time can sometimes find it useful to have someone explain to them where you are really as batshit insane as you sound, and where you might not be QUITE that batshit insane.
“He didn’t specify that the attack be nuclear.”
Oops. That’s true. I seem to have conflated his proposed attack on London with the nuclear exchange it would likely lead to. An easy mistake to make. 🙁
“But my well-informed opinion is that there would be an equally damaging or more damaging retaliatory strike . . . ”
Yup, no real question.
“. . . after which Putin would knock that shit off.”
Umm . . . I’m not at all sure about that.
“If, that is, he was stupid enough
to try it in the first place, which I don’t think he is.”
I nearly certain that he’s not that stupid. I’m pretty sure that there are plenty of high-ranking Russians who are that stupid, though, so we should be hoping that Putin stays in office until this mess at least simmers down to something a bit less likely to trigger existential errors.
“To be fair, Иван also seems to believe that the Russians could go nuclear with impunity, which is at least as stupid, if not more so, than the Tower Bridge strike fantasy.”
Probably more so, but it is possible to arrive at a tie in the dumb idea competition.
Not likely but I hope there will be some dead English rats in London.
Ukraine Says Russia Used Iranian Shahed Drones to Hit Civilian Targets all over Ukraine.
right because an evil empire wouldn’t be worth it’s salt without Iranian drones backing it up
At least the Russians are the ones shooting them off.
If these were British drones you can safely assume most if not almost all the nationalities of those personally involved in this operation were Brits not Ukrainians.
There is a reason why Biden is paying hazard pay now; there is a lot of NATO personal in country fighting this war and this drone demonstrates it.
jingo wars forrreeevvverrr…
It could be worse… “I wouldn’t be surprised…” if that SU24 that carried out the strike with a British Storm Shadow missile actually flew in from a NATO country as well. Just sayin’… I borrowed the ACME manual on “How to Start a Nuclear War” from Wile E. Coyote– The Roadrunner show. (Sarcasm)
Drones have people with screens running the show.
If these were British we can safely assume those on the screens were Brits as were those flying the planes that run the communications for the drones.
Of course those serving the daily tea to the Brits were Ukrainians and they were running the show (or will be portrayed as).
Sounds like the early reporting about the Brits involvement holds true instead of the always present “the USA did it!” that some post constantly as a reflex mechanism.
Yes, 12 of them according MILChronicles. They basically spammed that English garbage hoping to hit something.
Overall, this is a cowardly Pentagon tactic to see how many English rats Kremlin will exterminate in response. And we’re not talking about dumb English grunts in Ukraine. Kremlin need to arm IRA and Scottish resistance forces.