The Newsweek article doesn't say which missiles were used, but typically a large ship target could require something like the British Storm Shadow missile.
Ukrainian Air Force SU-24 armed with British Storm Shadow missiles:
Posted on 03/13/2024 8:02:16 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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.
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The banality of Putin’s evil: Putin is driven by the imperatives of regime security – preserving his kleptocratic rule – not national security.
Robert Horvath
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/banality-putin-s-evil
“As the possessor of the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, Putin never had reason to fear NATO enlargement or foreign invasion. But he had a lot to fear about regime security. From the protest movement of 2011–12 to the Navalny-inspired agitation of 2017–20, Putin’s rule has been shaken by a succession of challenges on the streets.
What makes regime security a problem is Putin’s record as a kleptocrat. From his days in the St Petersburg mayor’s office to four terms as president, Putin has amassed grotesque amounts of wealth, certainly tens of billions of dollars.”
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The Newsweek article doesn't say which missiles were used, but typically a large ship target could require something like the British Storm Shadow missile.
Ukrainian Air Force SU-24 armed with British Storm Shadow missiles:
Found a new monetized YT channel to pimp, did ya? What happened to the others?
Naw, it's just a Newsweek article, which includes a photo of the actual ship being blown up.
So that much is clear.
What's not necessarily clear is whether the ship had any real function in terms of Russian intelligence of command operations.
This is the ship in the Dnieper downriver from Kherson, being blown up by Ukrainian missile strike.
You don’t have to be confused:
pimp : to make use of often dishonorably for one’s own gain or benefit
I share reliable sources old & new :)
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Ukraine hits at least 3 Russian oil refineries in one of the largest drone strikes in recent months
Lloyd Lee
Mar 13, 2024, 10:25 PM EDT
https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-hits-3-russian-oil-refineries-in-massive-drone-strike-2024-3
• Ukraine recently launched a wave of drone strikes against Russian oil facilities.
• Within two days, Ukraine has hit at least three oil refineries, according to CNN.
• Russian officials have said that they have taken down about 60 drones overnight.
Ukraine hit a third Russian oil refinery with one of its largest drone strikes on Wednesday, as the country stepped up aerial attacks on key Russian energy infrastructure in the past two days.
The drone assault on Wednesday caused a fire at an oil facility located in Ryanzan, about 100 miles southeast of Moscow, The WASHINGTON POST reported, citing the region’s governor, Pavel Malkov.
Since Tuesday, Ukraine has been hitting Russia with a wave of drones, targeting oil refineries located deep in the country. According to the Post, nine Russian cities and towns were targeted.
At least two other refineries that were hit during Ukraine’s drone assault, included one in Kstovo, about 300 miles east of Moscow, and one in Kirishi, which represents some of Russia’s largest oil facilities, CNN reported citing a Ukrainian defense source.
Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that it shot down about 60 drones that Ukraine deployed overnight on Wednesday to six regions, BLOOMBERG reported. If the numbers are accurate, that would mark one of Ukraine’s largest drone strikes against Russia in recent months, according to the report.
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So this is different from Iranian drones and artillery shells or North Korean ballistic missiles and artillery shells hitting Ukraine?
How is it propoganda? Are you saying the ship was not hit?
“As the possessor of the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, Putin never had reason to fear NATO enlargement or foreign invasion”
What a stupid statement.
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1. Putin is SCARED: Russian SEPARATISTS BEGIN “Anti-Moscow RAID”. Gerasimov “MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED”
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Putin’s secret lover received a snowboard with his image. I am not allowed to talk further.
Romania secretly sends 32 MLRS. Ukraine destroyed extremely modern Russian radar. Ukraine destroyed 10% of oil refinery capacity of Russia in two days. How did they do it?
Russian Freedom Fighters announced “Anti-Moscow Raid”.
Putin is definitely concerned. Valery Gerasimov “mysteriously disappeared”. His successor already acts as interim Chief.
0:00 In today’s episode
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“Putin has never recognized Ukraine as an independent country. He views it as rightfully part of Russia and has always attempted to exercise hegemony over it. This is all that this is about. All the rest is meaningless blather.”
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I think you get it now. On this thread alone, there are posted about SEVEN AND ONE HALF HOURS of monetized YouTube videos, from a Canadian resident and a young fellow in Birmingham, Alabama. Both YouTube vloggers running "merch" operations, and one is even a financial advisor of sorts.
Proof from this thread alone:
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As your link to an eleven second YouTube video clip suggests by its title, "The Jerk - It's a Profit Deal!" Take's the pressure off.... Or something.
President Trump has had to cajole, prod and provoke the Europeans into meeting their NATO commitments and they simply yawned and babbled and fell back asleep.
But not so with Putin, not so at all. Putin is the one who woke up NATO.
Putin invaded a sovereign European country that had internationally recognized borders and that woke ‘em up! So, now every country is wide awake and wanting to join NATO if they weren’t members already.
Putin did that! And we need to change the Biden “I did that” stickers to Putin “I did that” stickers, because Vlad Putin’s the new champ at effing up his world.
However, to be fair, I don’t think he could have done it without Jobama oBiden taking office as POTUS.
Oh, how I wish it was so simple, to be untrue that the ship was hit. The propaganda campaign underway here on FR by “Zeepers” is much more insidious than simple outright lies, which can and do constitute propaganda. Propaganda is much more sinister and deceptive, designed to swing opinion with or without facts, and without reference to reality.
This is what CS Lewis has to say about Propaganda:
“[Humans] do tend to regard death as the prime evil and survival as the greatest good. But that is because we have taught them to do so. Do not let us be infected by our own propaganda.” The Screwtape Letters – XXVIII
Given the pro-Biden Ukranian War propaganda campaign on FR, it is worthwhile being educated about what propaganda is:
This from liberal Wikipedia:
Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.[1] Propaganda can be found in a wide variety of different contexts.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
Our Zeeper FRiends who have infiltrated this forum would have us believe that Russians are evil incarnate, that Zelinsky is a magnificent leader, that Russia was unprovoked in its invasion of Ukraine, that Biden’s Bazillion Dollar support for Ukraine’s Corruption Laced War is all about democracy and freedom, instead of corruption and money laundering at the expence of thousands and thousands of lives. And Zeepers will have you believe that not supporting Biden’s Crime Family Corruption Proxy-War in Ukraine means you (Putinistas) love Putin and the Kremlin and want the USA destroyed, all lies of course.
I have been on this forum a long time and have never seen such outrageous propaganda allowed to flourish here, as propaganda does in Newsweek, Associated Press, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and every other Intelligence Agency influenced sector of the media.
After the gigantic coronavirus-covid propaganda farce, you would expect to see more critical thinking for one’s own self, no?
Or should we just swallow the daily garbage spewed out by the Zeeper campaign as factual, good and all-American?
You decide.
Of course, but the question was whether a US made missile was used to hit that ship, and I simply pointed out, it was more likely a British Storm Shadow.
Did I miss your point?
I guess my question is what difference does it make, storm shadow took out submarine and other ships, would question the use of storm shadow at such a short distance to ukranian lines, for the same reason would think it pretty stupid to place a high value installation on that ship
A pertinent observation. To place the "hoax" in some kind of perspective WITH sourced reference,
From: "COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic - Last updated: March 14, 2024, 11:35 GMT"This is pertinent to your notion that media as "propaganda" flourishes in many ways on these threads.7,005,901 deaths since the pandemic began in 2020
Source: Worldometer updated as of today
( 7,005,901 deaths / 8,097,203,634 world population ) x 100 = 0.0865 percent mortality rate of the world's population. Less than one-tenth of one percent over more than three years.
In the case of the Ukraine-Russia war, between two non-NATO nations and one which Mr. Robinson observed was "controversial," the notion that looking closely at what lies "behind the scenes" is advisable.
Critical thinking seems in supply. On all sides. But propaganda, as you reference in your citation, flourishes.
Cui bono? Follow the money. It is advisable in the pandemic, the wars (plural), the "green" agenda, the transsexual agenda and of course the rapidly rising national debt.
Money trails are there to follow. Again, ON MANY SIDES.
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