Posted on 01/02/2024 4:48:07 AM PST by FarCenter
Heavy Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and the northeastern city of Kharkiv killed at least four people, wounded dozens and caused widespread damage on Tuesday, Ukrainian officials said.
The attacks struck residential buildings and civilian infrastructure, hours after President Vladimir Putin said an air strike on the Russian city of Belgorod that Moscow said killed 24 civilians and blamed on Ukraine “will not go unpunished”.
Russia has stepped up air strikes on Ukraine over the New Year period, and on Friday conducted its largest air attack of the almost two-year-old war on Ukraine, killing at least 39 people.
Russia attacked with waves of different missiles during the morning rush hour on Tuesday. Military authorities issued air alerts that lasted for at least three hours.
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said an elderly woman had died in an ambulance after being wounded. He had earlier said that at least 16 people had been wounded in the capital.
Two others were killed in the Kyiv region and one person was killed in the eastern city of Kharkiv, according to regional authorities.
Klitschko said gas pipelines had been damaged in Kyiv’s Pecherskyi district, and electricity and water had been cut off in several districts of the capital. Rescuers were putting out fires in several places, he said.
Ukraine’s national Ukrenergo energy company said “250,000 consumers were without electricity in Kyiv and its region following Russian strikes.”
The loss of electricity and water brought back memories of last winter, when Russia pounded the energy grid with missiles, causing frequent power cuts and plunging millions into darkness.
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Putin is reeeeeally desperate to end this war before the March election!
Thus the missile attacks (most of which get shot down anyway) and the intense propaganda blitz
Won’t work, of course ... this war still has many years to go ...
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oceania was always at war with eurasia
It’s OK if civilians were killed because Russia is allowed to do that. That seems to be the thought process of some people.
>> That seems to be the thought process of some people.
Russia and Ukraine are at war. Civilians die in war. War is hell.
Please point out and post who those people are? You need examples rather than accusations based on nothing.
Most of Kyiv still looks in pretty good shape in that picture
Yet some here try to portray it as like Berlin 1945
Giving us American Express 💰💵💰💵💰 pic.twitter.com/dK1S7WBlMK— Leo Ferrari (@LeoFerrarin) January 2, 2024
Obviously, Russia thinks it’s ok to attack civilians, as their actions clearly prove
So Russia won’t complain when Ukraine bombs civilians in Moscow
If this is the war Russia wants, that’s what it will get
You don't know that!
Just continue to make it up as you go along.
Here's the bottom line: Russia controls over 20% of former Uke territory after facing off the best NATO and the West has to offer -- and has for almost two years.
That's the only real fact that everyone agrees on. Right?
Interesting, less than a day after yesterdays Headlines: Zelensky Vows ...
The low number of casualties relative to the massive firepower being employed…is a tell that the targeting attempts precision. There is no Uke admission when misfired Uke AD falls back down onto civilians,
In Kharkov one of the “ civilian” targets was a hotel hosting members of a “ Free Russia” organization and its foreign ( NATO or mercenary?) advisors. These are the planners of attacks into Russia such as against the civilian city center of Belgorod. These reports are just as credible or more than Uke claims that Russia deliberately targets civilians, women, children.
Putin vowed to root out the individuals and units identifiable with the Belgorod attack …..plus selected targets associated with planning similar attacks into Russia, ammunition production in Ukraine and other military support infrastructure. He disavowed responding in-kind by attacking civilians despite calls by hardliners to do so.
I thought Vlad was out of missiles and arms? How can this be? ……easy answer, Russia’s huge manufacturing base and unlimited resources and reserves are second only to China….which by the way in is bed with Vlad….tick- tock- tick- tock…..
Senile Joe scammed everyone, again….” Russia is just a huge gas station “….
Drive on war cheerleaders!
>> There is no Uke admission when misfired Uke AD falls back down onto civilians...
Shades of Hamas!
>> You don’t know that! Just continue to make it up as you go along.
You do “c” clearly. canuck is indeed a fabulist.
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