On Tuesday, Ukraine launched a major drone attack on Russia that targeted Moscow and several other Russian regions, killing at least one civilian.
The civilian who was killed was a 46-year-old woman in Ramenskoye, a town in the Moscow Oblast. Moscow Governor Andrei Vorobyov said she died when the debris of a Ukrainian drone that was downed by Russian air defenses hit her high-rise apartment building.
Vorobyov said a total of two apartment buildings were hit, setting fire to several apartments. According to an Al Jazeera reporter in Moscow, 12 people were injured by the attack. The incident marked the largest Ukrainian attack on Moscow of the war.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that its air defenses downed a total of 144 Ukrainian drones, including 20 over Moscow and 72 over the Bryansk Oblast. According to TASS, no casualties or infrastructure damage were reported in other Russian regions.
The Ukrainian drone attack comes as Russia has stepped up its missile and drone bombardments targeting infrastructure across Ukraine. Russia escalated its attacks following the August 6 Ukrainian invasion of Russia’s Kursk Oblast.
Ukraine is pushing hard for the Biden administration to allow it to use US-provided missiles to launch long-range strikes inside Russia. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin appeared to throw cold water on the idea last week, but Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that the president hasn’t ruled it out.
Not a good idea to poke the bear! LITTERALLY!
This tragic drone attack is another illustration of why Russia can't win sn asymmetric war against Ukraine. I assume Russia will eventually be able to conquer the Donbas. But centuries of subjugation bred a Ukrainian resistance movement that simply won't quit. The Ukrainians will continue to fight even if they lose the Donbas, perhaps in a guerrilla war if the army is overwhelmed by Russia. This drone attack illustrates that unless Russia captures and occupies all of Ukraine the Ukrainians will continue to fight back even if Russia occupies the Donbas. Eventually Russia will have to leave Ukraine. Putin was blinded by Russian chauvinism and had no idea of the resistance the Russians would encounter when they invaded Ukraine.
The DICTATOR running Ukraine has killed off most of his own people. Based on that, I suggest you grab a gun and go fight your own war with Russia and be a man about it too.
The Ukrainians don't need me. Russia lost the war over two years ago. Imperial powers rarely admit defet in asymmetric wars of national resistance. But they inevitably withdraw eventually. In asymmetric wars the outcome is determined by hearts and minds, not force of arms.
Enjoy your delusion and overlook the fact the USA overthrew the Ukraine Government in 2014 just so you neoCON warmongers could steal more money from WE THE PEOPLE.
The US is going broke and Russia could help with purchase of the statue of liberty and making a home for Americas worthless and saying;
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
The US has become a totalitarian military dictatorship serving eternal war and genocide while creating homeless huddled masses yearning to be free..
It’s a coup in process that can still be stopped on Nov 5.
No it cannot. It will not be stopped. Whoever is the point person carries water for the deep state. Period.
Rep;ace the state.
My country of birth is a fraud. Saddened, dismayed, angry, I had to laugh at the cartoon show last night. All my country's leaders know is to kill others abroad, or provide the means to other countries to kill.
The "president" (Joe, you know) controls nothing.