Posted on 08/02/2025 6:53:25 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Evil Vladimir Putin suffered a huge blow after Ukraine launched dramatic strikes on the dictator's oil refineries, defence plants, a military airfield, and radar facilities.
These huge hits came after Donald Trump ordered two nuclear submarines to move closer to Russia after "provocative" threats of war with the US came from Russia's former president Dmitry Medvedev. In a dramatic dawn strike, a huge fireball explosion hit military-linked Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery in Samara region with mushroom-shaped flames rising into the sky.
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Another key oil refinery in Ryazan - crucial for supplies to capital city Moscow - was also in flames. Fires were reported to have been raging close to a military airfield at Primorsko-Akhtarsk, in Krasnodar region, used for Putin drone strikes on Ukraine.
A “major hit” was reported on a Russian air defence radar company near Feodosia in Putin-occupied Crimea - military unit 66571. There were giant “balls” covering radio-technical stations - one the size of a nine storey building.
Fires were recorded at the facility in the Tepe-Oba mountain range. One woman died in drone strikes on the Electropribor plant in Penza city, making special-purpose telecommunication and cryptographic equipment for Putin’s war machine.
Eight giant explosions were heard over the city followed by flames at the plant which was struck by long range Ukrainian drones. A defence-related radar plant in the city was also hit for the second time in three days, according to reports.
Ukraine also hit targets in Rostov region leading to one death, according to reports. The Ukrainian strikes on military-linked targets were in stark contrast to Putin’s assault on Kyiv on Thursday - one of the worst of the war.
A total of 31 people were killed including five children after Russia slammed a £2 million Iskander missile into a residential tower block Kyiv.
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Let’s give it a few more months and I think I will become clear
“Forced” how many months to take a prewar town of 12k?
Next your going to tell me putin is still “holding back”
Another oldie but goodie
Read up on attrition wars and you’ll understand why the Neocons are in a state of ABJECT PANIC right now regarding Ukraine.
Pretty aware, think Russians are panicking, but of course we won’t agree
“Pretty aware, think Russians are panicking, but of course we won’t agree”
Maybe not you, but plenty of people here claiming the above...for 42 months now. The crash of Russia is ‘just around the corner’ - for 42 months.
I think the evidence is pretty clear that the Russian economy is in trouble, the idea that it hasn’t collapsed so far is not unreasonable with the war chest pitin had developed, but that fund is depleting, Soviet legacy stocks are disappearing, revenue is down and expenses are through the roof so as the saying goes
Things go slow till they go fast
Don’t think many thought in 1990 that the Soviet Union would collapse a short time later. I am old enough to remember folks even at that time talking about the Soviet miracle, passing US….
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