Posted on 07/19/2023 11:55:28 AM PDT by bimboeruption
The failure of the grain deal (undermining the bridge) will result in huge financial losses for Ukraine. And the strikes on the Black Sea ports are tied into it.
It was the most powerful attack on the city since the beginning of the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine.
From what can be gathered from Ukrainian sources, the Russian combined arms attack included around 32 Iranian UAV ‘Geranium’, 16 Calibre Missiles, 8 X-22s, 6 hypersonic Onyx missiles and one X-59 flew across the skies of Ukraine.
The targets were the infrastructure of the ports of Odessa and the region, industrial zones adjacent to it, military airfield and oil depot on the railway station.
“The mayor of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov, announced the largest attack on the city since the beginning of the special military operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine
‘One of the worst nights… We don’t remember this scale of attack since the start of a full-scale invasion’, he said.”
Russian Defense Ministry:
“Tonight the Russian Federation Armed Forces carried out a group strike with sea- and air-based precision weapons against military industry facilities, fuel infrastructure and ammunition depots of the Ukrainian military in Odessa vicinity, as well as against the Kanatovo air base of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Kirovograd region.”
“Regarding the strikes on Odessa and elsewhere: It bears mentioning that these are not yet the ‘strikes of retribution’.
All these—admittedly massive—strikes were planned in advance. Nothing of this magnitude happens as a knee-jerk reaction to a terrorist act. As always, targets must be ascertained, verified, confirmed. The amount of planning that goes into these types of combined strikes is not done in a day.”
Russia has been long planning the exit from the ‘grain deal’ and how to do it.
“The destruction of the Ukrainian ports is an inevitable consequence of Russia’s decision to leave the ‘grain deal’ behind. Rather than try to police any ships with crews foolish enough to attempt docking in Ukraine, it’s best to simply make it impossible to dock in Ukraine.”
Judas Pence is very concerned.
Supposedly a Russian blockade of all Uke ports is about to begin
Putin is dead.
Russia has no missiles.
It’s all over now.
Two more weeks…
Russia does a good job of killing civilians and attacking civilian infrastructure. Actual battles against soldiers they tend to lose.
....Many moons ago, when many Americans had swallowed the current administration’s Kool-Aid and were all a-swoon over the Ukes beating the crap out of the Russkies, one Douglas MacGregor, Colonel, United States Army (Retired), kept presenting an opposite view of all this, and was vilified for his observations....yeah, are the Ukes winning this war....? I don’t think so.....
>Supposedly a Russian blockade of all Uke ports is about to begin
Yup, Turkey was planning to escort Ukrainian ships but soon reneged after yesterday.
Oh Dear! Ukraine must not have had enough Human Shields in place.
I thought from the beginning taking Odessa was the main objective.
"Regarding the strikes on Odessa and elsewhere: It bears mentioning that these are not yet the ‘strikes of retribution’."
Russia announced a blockade today.
Your name says it all.
Operation Barbarossa
I guess that you don't know the histories of Napoleon and Hitler.....
What an idiotic claim to make.
I hope the Ukrainians have some cruise missiles.
The Black Sea could use some more Russian steel at the bottom of it.
So, defeat after defeat and attack after attack, Ukraine is still winning?
civilians get killed in wars, which is why this war needs to END SOON. Ukraine needs to reach a peaceful settlement.
Chinese Communist Party drones ?
This is the same Russia that the Germans were afraid of. The Russian army is filled with hooligans who are paid and treated badly. They are going to win this war because they have to. And because they don’t care about the moral cost. In the end they will kill everyone who is not Russian in the areas they want. And if that does not work, they will bomb the the rest of Ukraine until they get what they want. There is no one in this fight who is playing fair. Its just a matter of who has the biggest stomach for the atrocities.
That’s not good for business. -Janet Yellen
Actually it appears to me both are losing it.
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