Posted on 07/02/2025 8:06:21 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
A series of explosions are heard inside the plant, with workers rushing and screaming as they try to get to safety.
Ukrainian drones attacked a military-industrial complex in the Russian city of Izhevsk on Tuesday, in one of the deepest strikes inside the country since Putin's full-scale invasion. UAVS struck the Kupol Electromechanical Plant, causing a major fire to break out at the site.
Video images circulating on social media channels show the dramatic moment of impact as the deadly drones zeroed in on their target. In one clip, an explosion can be heard, and then a giant ball of flames is seen erupting from the premises. Another video posted online shows panic among workers arriving at the plant for their morning shift.
It comes just days after Ukraine successfully inflicted more pain on Putin's battered air force as it struck the Marinovka airfield in Russia's Volgograd Oblast.
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Local residents told the independent Russian media Telegram channel that air raid sirens had failed to go off prior to the deadly attack.
The city is located in the Udmurt Republic of Russia, more than 1000km from (600 miles) from the frontline.
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Does Putin want to conquer Western Europe and go to the English Channel?
Any of the Baltic states could be crossed by vehicle in less than a day, have small populations and large Russian minorities of dubious loyalty. Even Poland is only 400 miles wide.
Putin reels for the millionth time...What the heck he’s died or has been on his death bed least five times or so they say. I just try to ignore Ukraine & Russia and all the garbage propaganda that comes out of it
Does Putin want to conquer Western Europe and go to the English Channel?
The West trying to read the Russian mind is like AOC trying to milk bulls.
It’s more like greed keeping this war going.
Sounds like Russia has good reason to deny NATO missile base systems on the border.
American made?
If he forces Ukraine to capitulate, he'll go after the Baltics. After all, why not? The NATO treaty is just paper.
Ukrainian made drone.
The British Army would stop him.
If you haven't lived in the Eastern European states, you simply cannot imagine the loathing they have for the Russian state.
The war continues principally because the Ukrainians refuse to live with the Russian boot on their necks.
It took Stalin almost 10 years to suppress the anti-communist guerillas in the Baltics, southern Poland and Ukraine. And they fought with no hope of victory.
I can imagine a lot of things but it’s Putin who is destroying his own country and others because he’s a dangerous idiot.
But nice try to change the subject because you hate your own society and idolize a Russian enemy.
Nazis got a 1,000 miles into Russia. The Smurf has to try harder.
ROFL!! Nice one!!
This reminds me of the Iran-Iraq blood-letting war. Very little progress on either side, just lots of dead bodies.
If Putin conquered Western Europe, how would he handle the millions of Muslims in those countries?
“British tabloid”
Two word Copy/paste post! Putin expects more than that.
“The Kremlin, satisfied, says US suspension of arms to Kyiv brings end to war”
The suspension of missiles and air defense projectiles to Kyiv comes at the most critical moment for Ukraine as Russia intensifies offensives on two fronts in search of territorial advantages to seriously consider a ceasefire.
Russia has welcomed the announcement by the United States that it will suspend the shipment of some weapons to Ukraine and sees it as a help to end the conflict sooner.
Yes a NKVD (secret police) division was kept in each of the Baltic states up until the Soviet Union broke up. Ukraine guerrillas kept fight ing up until 1954. Secret police presence remained strong there again until the Soviet Union broke up.
“Russia is having so much trouble that they needed North Korean troops to help them attack Ukraine. “
They also “recruited” in Nepal and demanded that Indonesia return their Russian WWII tanks.
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