Posted on 01/10/2023 5:40:55 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Russia continues to humiliate itself. After a deadly rocket attack by Ukraine carried out in the first moments of New Year’s Day killed as many as 400 Russian troops, Russia claimed only 63 had been killed. Russia soon updated that tally to 89 killed but also publicly blamed the troops for their own deaths by claiming the Ukrainian strike was the result of the recently mobilized troops using cell phones. Even some pro-Russian military bloggers said Russia was downplaying the number of deaths and also suggested that leadership was to blame for putting a bunch of inexperienced recruits together in one spot near an ammo dump.
Over the weekend, Russia announced a retaliatory strike which it claimed had killed 600 Ukrainian soldiers in a town called Kramatorsk.
It certainly sounds like a serious attack but was it? Photos from the scene actually show that the attacks missed the building — but more to the point, the building was empty. This reporter from Finland was at the scene of the attack the next day and there’s no sign anyone was killed there.
This tweet reads: “Russia claims it killed hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers in a missile strike on this school in Kramatorsk. I’m there and it’s a bit strange that the building isn’t even insulated. Locals didn’t see any ambulances here in the morning either.”
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Nice of Ukraine to provide the damage report so that the Russians can try it again.
There’s nothing there to hit except an empty building. And the Russians already know that it was a worthless target. They’re just trying to convince the home front that they’re capable of retaliating at the same scale, which they’re not.
I am not sure if your photo is even related to the story.
The Russians are hitting their concentrations many times a week this way.
That is how Ukrainians suffer most of their losses.
Pardon me, but this doesn’t make sense.
The Russians are so dumb and stupid they mistakenly picked the wrong building, and then missed it with one of their crappy missiles that can’t hit the side of a barn.
That’s a just a little over the top. If it were fact, why would you tell your enemy?
It’s the equivalent of jumping out of your foxhole, waving your arms saying “Ha ha! you missed me!”
Soledar is being routed and Bakhmut is encircled, but our Low IQ’ers remain comforted by propaganda.
The Finns confirmed it.
The Finns confirmed the death and destruction, or confirmed the lack of significant damage?
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