Posted on 03/20/2024 7:14:31 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukraine hit a key Russian airbase used for nuclear bombers in an overnight kamikaze drone strike as part of a consolidated aerial bombardment of several border regions.
The 'explosions and fire' at the airbase came as pro-Putin sources also accused Kyiv of targeting a nuclear power plant in Kursk region.
Explosions were heard at Engels air base in the Saratov region, home of Vladimir Putin's Tu-160 'Blackjack', Tu-95 'Bear' and Tu-22 strike aircraft, late last night.
All of these planes are capable of carrying nuclear missiles but have been used to strike Ukraine with conventional bombs throughout the past two years of war.
Independent Russia media outlet Astra said its sources indicated three out of four kamikaze drones had struck the Engels-2 air base, with multiple explosions from the drones picked up by security cameras.
Ukrainian media today confirmed that the GUR military intelligence agency had conducted the strikes.
Regional governor Roman Busargin claimed all the incoming Ukrainian drones were 'eliminated' over Engels - but locals gave contradictory accounts.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The follow up is what are the odds Ukraine has the capability to strike accurately, deep within Russian territory, with these drones?
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UKR has Russian partisans and its own people on the ground inside Russia. It does not need US help to find the thousands of targets inside the country. The odds are rigged in UKR’s favor here.
The people running our government are just unbelievably stupid.
The Putin lovers on FR must be wetting themselves.
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Yes - you can tell by all their denials - same as their Masters are saying.
What about all that don't you, Zeeptard?
And, if Ukraine and NATO continue to attack Russian Federation, Russia will take more territory.
The options for Ukraine are surrender and safe what's left of Ukraine or continue and lose more territory. There are no options.
Interestingly, Marxist Democrats demean Americans in the exactly the same way for also wanting to defend their own borders, language and culture from invaders.
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Factually incorrect. The people of Zaporizhia, Ukraine never voted to be part of Russia and have never been occupied by Tsar Putin’s invading Russian Nazi army. Not even a fake Stalinist vote. 800,000 people. Yet still the genocidal KGB Kremlin filthy had a fevered dream and declared them part of Russia. Those are the facts but I can you’re not interested in them. So good luck with armchair hobby observing these events.
If true, that’s cool.
More dead Russians and more destroyed Russian equipment.
Zelensky was elected in an open and fair election. Stop with the Russian propaganda.
Yeah, and the Easter Bunny brings chocolate eggs.
See post #30.
Zelensky was elected on the promise he would end the war and instead did just the opposite.
An election in which the largest party was banned, and its leaders chased out of the country, in which the Eastern regions of the country were not allowed to participate, and in which the main NATO candidate (Zelensky), was paid-for by the country's top oligarch
Stop with the zeeper stupidity.
What Ukrainian F-16 over Romania doink?
This is basically like somebody attacking Barksdale or Moffit AFB where our nuclear bombers are mostly.
How long would we tolerate attacks on the home of our nuke bombers?
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