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.
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: