Update 12/31/23: Russia now says the toll in the attack has risen to 21 killed (including 3 children) and 111 injured.
Ukraine conducted a major attack inside Russian territory, leaving at least 14 people dead. The war has escalated over the past week as Ukraine has conducted strikes inside Russia, and Moscow ordered a missile and drone barrage against Kyiv.
Russian authorities report the Belgorod region that borders Ukraine came under missile and rocket fire on Saturday. Moscow’s state media service, Tass, says at least 14 are dead and over 100 were injured in the attack. The Russian Defense Ministry says one child is among the dead.
The Kremlin reports that several of the Ukrainian projectiles were shot down. The Russian military slammed the attack as “indiscriminate” and claimed several of the rockets were cluster munitions.
The Russian Representative to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyansky, called for the security council to meet over the attack and summoned the Czech Republic representative to explain why Czech weapons were used in the attack. “We have requested a UNSC meeting on Belgorod today, December 30. We also demanded that the Czech permanent representative be present to explain his country’s supplies of weapons, which are used to kill civilians,” he said.
The Ukrainian attack came after Russia conducted an attack on Kyiv and other major Ukrainian cities with over 150 drones and missiles. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry says about 100 of the projectiles were intercepted by air defenses. Ukrainian official reports 39 killed across the county.
The Russian missile barrage was likely a response to Ukraine attacking the Crimean Peninsula earlier in the week. The Novocherkassk, a Russian landing ship, was damaged by a Ukrainian cruise missile.
The Russian strike on Ukraine came just before the UK announced a new weapons package for Ukraine. “The package of around 200 air defense missiles will re-supply UK-developed air defense systems provided to Ukraine in late 2022,” the UK Ministry of Defense explained in a statement. “These air defense missiles (Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missiles – ASRAAM) are designed to be launched from aircraft including the UK’s Typhoon and F-35 fighter jets.”
The MoD says the interceptors have been redesigned to be fired from the ground.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
Seems to me that people should be sitting down for Peace Talks?….
According to the nazi neocons on this platform calling for negotiations is “supporting a dictator,” and/or “supporting Russian aggression.” Much like if one notes the hopeless situation that Ukraine finds itself in thanks to empty promises from the collective West. But yes, sane individuals would agree with you 100%.
This is what peace talks would look like:
These talks would only happen with an unbiassed mediator that has no skin in the game. China has offered to do that and make Ukraine a transit point in the new Silk Road project. They would also help rebuild Ukraine as no Western power is able to do. Zelensky should jump at the chance to remain in the land of the living.
We certainly will not do that. The MIC wants to have a banner year.
Ukraine’s civilian population has remained relatively untouched by the two years of the SMO.. Do they realize that civilians are rarely spared in such situations, and that their fate could have been much worse?
You think so? Really? What about the 10M or so that have left the country reportedly unlikely to return that’s a permanent impact to GDP long into the future. I doubt they think their lives have been untouched or that it’s roses building a new life in counties that aren’t all that that welcoming. What of the families of the hundreds of thousands dead and wounded? What about all the civil service workers, about 25% of the workforce though more now with the millions evacuated, that month to month living wages depend on the whimsy of our Congress – our taxes pay for that government. And speaking of work and income – what about Ukraine’s agriculture sector, you’ve heard it was the “world’s bread basket,” it’s lost over 80% of that production affecting not just Ukrainian farmers but international agencies including IMF, world bank and UN continue to warn about a pending food crisis in the most vulnerable countries.
But you are right in one respect, in the state of the worlds’ current wars were they Palestinians their fate would be much, much worse, they could be the targets and victims of the methodical and relentless Genocide being conducted by Israel and supported, and complicit in, by US weapons and tax dollars.
Guess “we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
All of the effects of war the Ukrainians are absorbing were caused by Putin’s invasion. Don’t conflate what Russia did with what Israel is doing. The US is complicit in what Israel is doing. Russia (Putin) are directly responsible for what is happening in Ukraine.
I well understand the desire, albeit need, to intellectually and emotionally divorce my country’s great power machinations provoking a proxy war with Russia from the uniquely immoral and monstrous horrors that are Israel’s Gazan Genocide but they are indivisible parts of a whole. A whole, sadly, the result of 30+ post cold war years of US hegemony.
You should separate the two because conflating them doesn’t allow for US citizens to address their complicity in the Israeli apartheid and genocide. (We can argue your disagreement with the US support for the freedom fighters in Ukraine after Palestinians stop dying)
US citizens are quite capable of addressing their governments complicity in Israel’s genocide and their governments complicity in provoking Russia for 30+ years. Nice try though.
“Ukrainian Attack on Russia Kills At Least 14”: This is why the Russian public will only accept unconditional surrender from Ukraine.
The Russian public is probably not nearly as unreasoning as United Russia’s western shills.
Not according to this Russian:
My impression is that most people in most places are to a large degree like that woman describes her fellow Russians. They’re more worried about food, shelter, entertainment, and intoxicants than about politics. And not just for “selfish” reasons, but because they don’t believe that things CAN be different. That description definitely includes Americans, btw.
But I also believe that the undertone of disgust conveyed by that woman is always there, everywhere, too. It’s just more subdued. And eventually something ignites it.
I don’t have any particular belief as to what will ignite it, when, and where. The American empire may well come down before the Russian empire or the Chinese empire does.
And they’ll all be coming down eventually.
She is apparently either oblivious of Russia’s stenuous efforts at peaceful accomodation failing which it had no alternative to defending itself militarily against Washington aggression; or herself, a Westernized partisan of the corrupt oligarchs. Probably, the latter.
Sorry, CT. You neglected to include that Russia is dumb and its bombs are dumber. They can only destroy maternity hospitals. Otherwise, you would be labeled as “United Russia’s western shill.” Always remember Putin is a dumb dictator. For more information, refer to James Bond’s Villain roster. Those villains are all based on Putin. They’re deranged, intent on destroying everything for no good reason whatsoever. Only a western Spy can save us all. Only James Bond can restore peace and world order by assassinating his villains.
Russophobia and racism against Slavic people will be the demise of America.
RUSSIA’S OWN FALSE FLAG ATTACK ON BELGOROD:
After shelling Belgorod, Russia botched the cover up and claimed the attacks were conducted by BM-21 Grad equivalent 122mm RM-70 MLRS, which has a range of 20-25km. Yet, strikes occurred more than 35km from the border with Ukraine.
https://ukrainetoday.org/russias-own-false-flag-attack-on-belgorod/
OPINION: New York Times Editorial Board Very Wrong
Little has enraged the pro-Ukrainian community more than The New York Times (NYT) with its Dec. 27 article “Ukraine Doesn’t Need All Its Territory to Defeat Putin.” It was written by the hereditary Russian nobleman Serge Schmemann, a member of its editorial board.
https://ukrainetoday.org/opinion-new-york-times-editorial-board-very-wrong/
And 2023 ends even shittier as one of the greatest journalists, advocate for peace, champion of Assange and teacher of breaking past propaganda has died: John Pilger.
The World Has Lost John Pilger
One of the greatest journalists and filmmakers of his generation has died at age 84, his family announced on Sunday.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/31/the-world-has-lost-john-pilger/
Rest in power. Rest in peace.
Very sad news indeed, rest in peace
John Pilger. An Australian that makes me proud to be Australian as with Julian Assange .I hang my head in disgust at our leaders and MS media.
Pootin has told his top propagandist at Russian state TV to stop praising MAGA and Trump. (Because since Biden called attention to it, it’s actually hurting Trump’s chances in the election.)
https://ukrainetoday.org/putin-ally-sours-on-prospect-of-a-trump-second-term/
It saves a lot of time and trouble when a poster demonstrates, in the very first post I read, that there’s no reason to ever read another by this particular twit.
Sayonara, and thanks.
Because Biden is a POS who engaged in the propaganda of the Russiagate scam, which brainwashed the masses to manufacture consent for war after his coup.
And no, never a Trump supporter, but one who despises the lies.
Trump is out of the good graces with Putin. Putin was not amused when “puppet” Trump withdrew from the Open Skies Treaty, and the INF Treaty.
Trump was never a puppet, unless someone has come up with new evidence, it was a creation of the Clinton/Biden campaigns.
He had deals with the US Russian mob, who he was allegedly introduced to via Michael Cohen’s father in law, who was also dirty. Trump also had schemes with the US Italian mafia, but no one ties him to Italy because it doesn’t serve a narrative for a pretext of war.
There’ll be a tat for this tit.
Lying by omission, an example:
What Kyle “forgets” is that Russia attacked Ukraine’s power stations, just like the U.S. bombed all eight power stations around Baghdad when they attacked Iraq. Russia does not attack civilians. But the Ukrainians like to fire on Russian missiles when they pass over the cities, so if any fall down they can claim “look, Russia is bombing buildings!” Ukrainian missiles also fall down on buildings due to this irresponsible behavior, which has been confirmed, and then they claim they are Russian missiles.
Just like the liars claimed that it was a Russian missile that killed two Polish farmers, and demanded that NATO start World War III over it. The liar Zelensky kept insisting it was a Russian missile even when the Poles had examined the Ukrainian missile and the evidence was overwhelming.
The socialist New York Times then wrote that it was “a Russian-made missile,” lying to the extreme. The Ukrainian defense missiles were made during SOVIET times, but nowhere in the socialist article did it say that the missile was fired by Ukraine.
Socialist Reuters:
Military object found in Polish forest was Russian missile
Socialist CNN:
World leaders hold emergency meeting as ‘Russian-made’ missile kills two in Poland
Socialist The Guardian:
Two farmers killed near border with Ukraine by what Poland has claimed were Russian-made weapons
Socialist NPR:
A Russian-made missile explodes in Poland — killing 2 people
Socialist New York Times:
Poland Suggests Russian-Made Missile Killed 2 Inside Its Borders
Socialist PBS:
Poland says Russian-made missile fell on its soil, killing 2
Socialist ABC:
Russian-made missile kills 2 in Poland near Ukrainian border
Socialists, whether “Social Democrats” in Europe or just “Democrats” in the U.S., always lie. Otherwise they can’t be socialists.
These are the people Kyle relies on to claim that “Russia fires at Ukrainian cities,” leaving out that their targets are power stations in order to deplete Ukraine’s Soviet missile stock. By leaving this out Kyle knows people will think the targets are civilian buildings, since he writes that they attack “cities”. Exactly on the level of these articles lying by omission about a “Russian-made missile”.
is US Bankroft Group replacing Russia’s Wagner Group?
Great, CAR will appreciate the professionalism.
Had antiwar shown the news about the major Russian attack on Ukraine the day before this Ukrainian attack, like regular news network did, this article would’ve had a different reaction.
A seemingly deliberate attempt to hide negative news on Russia that did nothing but to show the bias.