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Russian strategic aviation is airborne and preparing to launch mass cruise missile attack on Ukraine tonight.
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“Russian strategic aviation is airborne and preparing to launch mass cruise missile attack on Ukraine tonight. ”
Kyiv Independent reports:
“This is the third ballistic missile attack on the capital in August, with a clear interval of six days between the attacks,” Serhii Popko, the head of Kyiv Military Administration, said in a post on Telegram.
Popko added that according to preliminary information, Russian forces “most likely used KN-23, North Korean-made ballistic missiles.”
Information released later by Ukraine’s Air Force said one Russian and two ballistic missiles were used in the attack, as well as five cruise missiles and eight kamikaze drones.
It added that the two North Korean ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles and all eight kamikaze drones were intercepted by Ukraine’s air defenses.
The others “did not reach their desired targets” though no further information was given.
Air raid sirens rang out in Kyiv twice overnight though Popko said all the missiles and drones were downed on the approaches to the capital so no explosions were heard by those in the city.
Later on the morning of Aug. 18, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service published photos of damaged residential buildings in the surrounding Kyiv Oblast and said rescuers were assisting people, but did not mention any casualties.”
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Kremlin snuff box, 08/18/24
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“It’s bad in the Kursk region, but there is one hope”
These words were told to us by a high-ranking source in the General Staff, commenting on the situation at the front.
According to him, “in the Kursk region, you need to tell the truth, now it’s a bad, difficult situation, which was the result of a series of mistakes.”
The military man believes that “almost the only ( unfortunately, this is what our interlocutor said - ed. ) opportunity to save the situation, and we are talking about the Ukrainian conflict in general, is to achieve success in another direction of the front.”
“In the Kursk region, everything will most likely drag on ( the source agrees with the forecasts of Andrei Belousov, which we wrote about - ed. ). Everyone is already saying this. At the same time, we are successfully moving forward in the Krasnoarmeysky ( Pokrovsky ) direction in the DPR. To be honest, I would stop lying and saying that we will soon resolve the Kursk issue. And he would take up the liberation of the DPR, since there are problems on a number of other sectors of the front,” the source said.
And the interlocutor at the Ministry of Defense admitted that quite strange conversations are increasingly common among generals. Like, it would be nice to transfer some troops from different sectors of the front to the Krasnoarmeyskoe direction in order to achieve results there. Because, despite all the heroic offensive and a number of serious successes, the situation there is still ambiguous.
The military has not yet expressed these proposals to Vladimir Putin. They are afraid that the President will suspect them of intentions to surrender the Kursk region to the enemy.
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08/18/2024 3:54:23 AM PDT by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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"Shake on it Bub.""No thanks"
Alice Weidel has called for Ukraine to compensate Germany for the damage caused to its economy as a result of the attack:
“The economic damage to our country caused by the demolition of Nord Stream presumably ordered by Zelensky - and not Putin as we were led to believe - should be "billed" to Ukraine.”
Berlin-Kyiv relations were strained after the German Prosecutor General's Office issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian suspected of involvement in the pipeline sabotage.
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