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Drones Strike Sochi, Adler, and Send Panic Across Russian-Occupied Abkhazia
Times of Israel ^ | 7/24/2025 | Mikheil Khachidze

Posted on 07/24/2025 11:50:34 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

In a bold and meticulously coordinated drone operation, Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) targeted key locations near the Russian Black Sea resort cities of Sochi and Adler early Thursday morning, dealing a blow to strategic infrastructure and spreading fear deep into Russian-occupied Georgian region Abkhazia.

One of the main targets was an oil facility in the village of Sirius, just outside Sochi. Russian officials confirmed the strike and urged civilians to stay away from the area due to ongoing safety concerns, as emergency crews responded to fires at the site.

In Adler district, drone debris killed one woman and seriously injured another. Several garages caught fire, and local footage showed scenes of destruction amid the quiet coastal area.

Russian media also released dramatic video showing a drone flying at extremely low altitude near the Mantera Supreme Hotel and the Fisht Olympic Stadium — iconic landmarks from the 2014 Winter Olympics that now underscore Russia’s growing vulnerability to long-range Ukrainian strikes.

The attack forced the temporary closure of Sochi International Airport, severely disrupting civilian air traffic and underscoring the effectiveness of Ukraine’s asymmetric tactics.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.timesofisrael.com ...


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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So, what you are saying is that Russians are so childish that they would risk destroying the world because they cannot get their way?

Based on what you FRussians are writing over the past year or so, that sounds about right.

You are a Bunch of god damned children who try to bully their way to their goals. I guess I would expect nothing less from mongols who have to live in cesspools.


21 posted on 07/24/2025 12:57:29 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt
So, what you are saying is that Russians are so childish that they would risk destroying the world because they cannot get their way?

You war pigs want it both ways.

You claim Putin is a madman who must be regime-changed, but he's not a big enough madman to launch nukes to keep Russia from being conquered.

Make up your [Expletive Deleted] mind.

22 posted on 07/24/2025 1:03:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Keep talking nonsense about Victoria Nuland.

I know it? That’s delusional.

Where’s the nuclear war you just announced?


23 posted on 07/24/2025 1:08:26 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Targeting civilian areas?


24 posted on 07/24/2025 1:09:32 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: Williams
Where’s the nuclear war you just announced?

A Since you slunk when I asked the first time, I'll try again:

What is the endgame of the Ukraine proxy war?

25 posted on 07/24/2025 1:10:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Your statement about every Rand corp study was made up out of your fever dreams.

You love to make stuff up.


26 posted on 07/24/2025 1:10:30 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why would I answer your stupid questions?

You tell me what will happen Nostradamus.

I don’t slink to dopes.


27 posted on 07/24/2025 1:12:46 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: Williams

So you have no idea what the endgame is, but you’re all for it.

Sounds like a war pig cult.


28 posted on 07/24/2025 1:15:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Is that who Putin blames to all the mourning Russian parents - Victoria Nuland?

She must be a wunderkind, and Putin a drooling chimp.


29 posted on 07/24/2025 1:16:08 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Making up more fantasies. I simply ANSWERED your idiotic statements.

1 There will not be a nuclear war because of these drone attacks.

2 The Rand Corp never had “every study” saying that any nuclear strike will lead to the entire world being destroyed in 5 minutes.

3 You want ME to tell you how a war is going to end. You tell us genius.

4 If Nuland dragged Putin into a 3 year plus war over Ukraine, Putin must be an absolute pinhead.


30 posted on 07/24/2025 1:20:36 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: Vermont Lt

lolsz


31 posted on 07/24/2025 1:30:59 PM PDT by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You are the person pretending to know Putin’s mind. You claim to know that he will launch nukes.

I am claiming he is a petulant little a hole. Like most FRussians.


32 posted on 07/24/2025 1:44:39 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt
I am claiming he is a petulant little a hole.

So someone you consider to be "a petulant little ahole" wouldn't resort to nukes because he's not THAT big of "a petulant little ahole?"

33 posted on 07/24/2025 1:47:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You are the one saying he is going to use Nukes. Because of a couple of drone attacks on his summer dacha.

Someone should drone his wife and daughter in Switzerland.


34 posted on 07/24/2025 2:01:19 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt
You are the one saying he is going to use Nukes. Because of a couple of drone attacks on his summer dacha.

You have no intention of ceasing to poke the bear, do ya?

Someone should drone his wife and daughter in Switzerland.

That would be an act of war against Switzerland, but to war pigs it's all good.

35 posted on 07/24/2025 2:08:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“”””Are you telling me that the country with the largest nuclear arsenal on Earth would allow itself to be defeated without resorting to nuclear weapons?””””

Of course they would, this is invading a foreign country, it isn’t Russia being invaded and conquered forever, or dealing with a nuclear launch that is ending them forever.


36 posted on 07/24/2025 2:22:38 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12
Of course they would, this is invading a foreign country, it isn’t Russia being invaded and conquered forever, or dealing with a nuclear launch that is ending them forever.

All those natural resources Russia has would solve the existential financial crisis the EU is facing.

It's why they kept poking the bear to get the war started in the first place.

37 posted on 07/24/2025 2:31:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LOL, that has nothing to do with my post.


38 posted on 07/24/2025 2:35:41 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

My point was NATO ain’t going to stop once there is blood in the water, and you know it.


39 posted on 07/24/2025 2:37:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: tumblindice

Go away Antisemitic moron.


40 posted on 07/24/2025 2:40:53 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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