Ukraine Missiles Blow Up Russia's Floating 'Command Center': Video

newsweek.com ^ | Mar 13, 2024 at 6:50 AM EDT | Ellie Cook

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Ukraine destroyed a Russian tanker that Moscow used for surveillance and for deploying first-person-view (FPV) drones in southern Ukraine, according to Kyiv's military.

Ukraine's air force conducted a "successful strike" on the Russian-flagged Mechanik Pogodin on Tuesday, Kyiv's navy said in a statement.

Ukraine said Russia's military was using the vessel as a command center, with the ship serving to launch FPV drones and to carry electronic warfare (EW) equipment. Kyiv said the use of the vessel for surveillance and control made the tanker a legitimate military target.

A brief video posted by Ukraine's armed forces appeared to show the moment of the strike on the tanker. The clip shows a large explosion on one end of the ship, and a dark cloud of smoke billowing up from the vessel. Pieces of debris can be seen crashing into the water surrounding the ship. Newsweek could not independently verify the footage.

"Thanks to the pilots for the successful combat work against the enemy control point!" Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Air Force, said in a statement. Mechanik Pogodin tanker A screenshot from a video posted by the Ukrainian military. Ukraine's Air Force conducted a "successful strike" on the Russian-flagged Mechanik Pogodin on Tuesday, Kyiv's navy said in a statement. Ukrainian Navy/ The vessel had been docked in Kherson, in southern Ukraine, before moving to the Kinburn Spit after the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in June 2023, the navy said. Newsweek has reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry for comment via email.

[Kazan]

Ukraine was never defending itself.

We fomented an illegal coup, setoff a civil war and enabled neo-Nazis to persecute and exterminate ethnic Russians. We installed a puppet government hostile to Russia, trained a funded a 600,000 man army, armed Ukraine with lethal weapons, teased NATO membership for Ukraine and were running biolabs there with deadly pathogens in them.

If Russia or China had done anything like that in Mexico, we would have, justifiably, invaded.

You're narrative is Deep State creation.

[Petrosius]

There was no peace deal. Yes, they agreed on some broad principles, but Russia demanded that Ukraine limit its armed forces to 85,000 men, something that Ukraine would never agree to. Russia could have a deal today that would satisfy all their legitimate security concerns: withdraw from Ukraine in return for a neutral Ukraine. Russia will never agree to this because Putin wants to bring Ukraine back under Russian control. All the other excuses are just smoke.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

The entire Ukraine-Russia war -- a war still OFFICIALLY between two non-NATO nations -- will be colored by the names of those corrupt families, Biden, Pelosi, Kerry and Romney and some few EU members yet to be "outed." Before this time, they were all using Ukraine as one of their "cash cow sources."

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

"Deep State creation...."

Minsk agreements

What is the Minsk agreement and is it a way out of Ukraine crisis? CNN, February 10, 2022

What Are the Minsk Accords, and Could They Defuse the Ukraine Crisis? New York Times, Feb 8, 2022

The Minsk-2 agreement - International Affairs Think Tank

What are the Minsk agreements on the Ukraine conflict?

Ukraine and Russia's Minsk Agreement Is a Problematic Peace Plan

As Merkel later said more or less, "buying time to rearm."

We can be sure of how the non-NATO nations' war will turn out. When it ends. Tick tock.

[Petrosius]

Ukraine was never defending itself.

We fomented an illegal coup, setoff a civil war and enabled neo-Nazis to persecute and exterminate ethnic Russians.

Even if I were to grant the "illegal coup" argument, which I do not, this does not justify Russia's military invasion. It is for the Ukrainian people to settle matters of their internal governance. As for the start of the so-called civil war, that happened when Russia invaded 2014 under the cover of its ethnic Russian surrogates. And finally, the Ukrainians did not persecute and attempt to exterminate the ethnic Russians. The language law was no more onerous than that of Quebec.

We installed a puppet government hostile to Russia.

We installed no government, it was elected by the Ukrainian people in two elections. It is the Russians who attempted to install a government by its 2012 invasion.

Your narrative is a creation of the Kremlin.

[bimboeruption]

>The entire Ukraine-Russia war — a war still OFFICIALLY between two non-NATO nations — will be colored by the names of those corrupt families, Biden, Pelosi, Kerry and Romney and some few EU members yet to be “outed.” Before this time, they were all using Ukraine as one of their “cash cow sources.”<

Exactly World, when it comes to the choice of voting for a candidate who will continue to fund Zelensky vs one who won’t, we know who zeepers will choose.

BIDEN!

Their talk about supporting President Trump is a smokescreen.

[Petrosius]

Interesting that you did not include the name Putin in your list. You know, the one who actually started the war.

[linMcHlp]

Petrosius:

"the start of the so-called civil war, that happened when Russia invaded 2014 under the cover of its ethnic Russian surrogates"

bttt

[Kazan]

Even if I were to grant the "illegal coup" argument, which I do not

Then, you're a liar doing the bidding of both rich elitists like George Soros, who have laundered billions of dollars in Ukraine, the Biden regime and Deep State.

[Petrosius]

So, when you run out of facts, you resort to ad hominem attacks. That just shows that you have lost the argument.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Interesting that you did not include the name Putin in your list. You know, the one who actually started the war."

Thank you, Petrosius. Let me correct that omission herein. We were told by an authoritative voice, and I repeat for your "interest:"

"The ‘PUTIN-Biden-Clinton-Obama’ cartel did used Ukraine as a FRONT to stage their money-laundering by using Russian agents embedded BY PUTIN in the Ukraine government: Ukrainian deep-state!

President Zelensky is still trying to remove Ukraine CORRUPT “deep state created by Putin!”

Source: Ukraine CORRUPT “deep state created by Putin with Biden in the cartel

So, yes dear Petrosius, these names can all be placed in the same list.

Biden, Pelosi, Kerry and Romney and some few EU members yet to be "outed," AND Clinton, Obama and Putin.

Hope this clears up your concerns about the hands in the "cookie jar."

[hardspunned]

Bullshit lies. That blood on your globohomo neocon stooge hands won’t wash off.

[Petrosius]

And what in particular is a lie?

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

“You can pray for Ukraine all you want but the warmongers in DC don’t hear your prayers.”

You are a little confused. Only the truly obsessed supporters that are determined to support Putin pray to DC.

We that support Freedom for Ukraine pray to God, not DC. hear your prayers.

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CORRECTION:

Can’t wait for this filthy little emperor without a Russian empire invasion project to be over. Under little Putin, Russia hs become a cancer.

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[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

Ukraine IS ONLY defending itself.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

TRUTH

NOTHING has justified this Russia’s military invasion.

Russia needed to honor the 1994 Budapest Declaration’s commitment signed for Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty and national unity.

[hardspunned]

Your prayers that are heard in DC have resulted in an additional 250,000 totally unnecessary Uke deaths. The warmongers you apparently pray to killed and gutted the negotiated peace that would have ended this bloodbath six weeks after the war started. I pray to the Prince of Peace. You should try it, he will even forgive the likes of your evil bloodthirsty DC masters.

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The Budapest Memorandum was signed on 5 December 1994 is actually three documents signed individually on 5 December 1994 by the three leaders of the ex-Soviet nations, together with the guarantor nations: United States, United Kingdom and Russia.

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and effectively removing all Soviet nuclear weapons from their soil, and that ALL agreed to the following:

Respect the signatory’s independence and sovereignty in the existing borders (in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act).

• Refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of the signatories to the memorandum, and undertake that none of their weapons will ever be used against these countries, except in cases of self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.

• Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine, the Republic of Belarus and Kazakhstan of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.

• Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they “should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used”.

• Not to use nuclear weapons against any non - nuclear-weapon state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, except in the case of an attack on themselves, their territories or dependent territories, their armed forces, or their allies, by such a state in association or alliance with a nuclear weapon state.

• Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments.