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Russia launches 'massive' nationwide missile attack targeting Ukraine's energy grid
ABC News ^ | 1/17/2024 | David Brennan and Patrick Reevell

Posted on 11/17/2024 2:42:50 AM PST by marcusmaximus

Russia launched a major missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight into Sunday targeting power plants and energy infrastructure across the country.

The barrage was the largest attack on Ukraine since late August and the third largest so far this year. Missiles and drones targeted cities including the capital Kyiv, forcing people into basements, subway stations and other underground shelters.

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The Russian aircraft involved in the assault included Tu-160 and Tu-95 strategic bombers, the air force said, as well as Su-34, Su-27 and MiG-31 jets.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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KEYWORDS: davidbrennan; escalation; killkillkillforpeace; mic; patrickreevell; russia; tothelastukrainian; ukraine; welfarewar
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1 posted on 11/17/2024 2:42:50 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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It’s way past time to end the killing and destruction.

Money needs to be spent on reconstruction, not destruction.


2 posted on 11/17/2024 2:54:48 AM PST by rdcbn1
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To: marcusmaximus

Spoke with my people in Ukraine. This was a very big attack across a number of cities. The Russians used missiles, drones and anything else they could throw. The Russians don’t attack military targets, just civilian buildings and infrastructure like power plants and water service.
There really needs to be a way to get this thing called off.


3 posted on 11/17/2024 3:17:14 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: marcusmaximus

Another one. Is this the second one today?


4 posted on 11/17/2024 3:24:43 AM PST by McGruff (Making America Great Again)
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To: everyone
The flight map of the missiles and drones that were launched during the attacks on Ukraine last night.


5 posted on 11/17/2024 3:28:57 AM PST by McGruff (Making America Great Again)
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I am still not convinced that the mess in Ukraine isn’t a ploy to enrich the Biden crime family.


6 posted on 11/17/2024 3:32:54 AM PST by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and pervewrts.)
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To: rdcbn1

You spend your own money on that dipstick.


7 posted on 11/17/2024 3:35:02 AM PST by AlmaKing
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To: Fai Mao

Skim the war money then skim the rebuilding money.


8 posted on 11/17/2024 3:40:46 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: rdcbn1
We haven't cleaned up our mess from two back to back hurricanes and YOU want us to rebuild Ukraine? What about our filthy crime ridden blue cities?

NO WAY are we going to rebuild Ukraine.

There's over a hundred wars happening in the world - NONE of them are our business, our responsibility, or critical to our existence.

Let's put our effort into OUR country and our hemisphere.. The Chinese are taking over South America and Taiwan produces the high quality chip we need. What the hell does Ukraine do other than launder the money of the world's 'elites' and provide jobs and bribes for corrupt American politicians and intelligence scum?

9 posted on 11/17/2024 3:50:19 AM PST by GOPJ (Offer illegals $2,000, free ticket home & place on list to come back IF they leave voluntarily )
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10 posted on 11/17/2024 3:56:37 AM PST by ANKE69 (✌️🇺🇲 Let's MAGA)
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Did you forget to add the /sarcasm ??


11 posted on 11/17/2024 4:02:46 AM PST by ANKE69 (✌️🇺🇲 Let's MAGA)
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To: Fai Mao

Surely you know Biden is just a bit player on this scale.


12 posted on 11/17/2024 4:08:05 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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He should still hang


13 posted on 11/17/2024 4:14:09 AM PST by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and pervewrts.)
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To: rdcbn1

The time to make money has happened on Oct 20th at the Brics summit where more countries are lining up to join. 24: 39 Heads of State meet in a Kazan summit to create a new foreign exchange system: BRICS—the depolarized global south! This was a historic moment like Brettinwood’s time. Over 65% of the world’s population now trades in their currencies: G7 GTP 31%, BRICS GTP 39%.

International cross-border payments are depolarizing the US dollar’s dominance; its failure is close at hand. Countries and central banks are dumping their US dollar bond holdings.

2025 will show how the Kazan conference leaves no doubt about the outcome.

The global majority rejects Western hegemony.

Biden got the war he spent 8 years under Obama creating.

Trump will wash his hands of Obama’s nuclear ⚔rorist Zelinski who has ensured their will be no peace in his lifetime.

The Biden Admin has been the greatest failure of American Diplomacy and Military power, in the history of the US. Biden destroyed American cities in 2020 and fanned Obama’s racism. The entire world rejects, to include a majority of American voters, the Chicago Wing of the DNC - and their Thuggery.


14 posted on 11/17/2024 5:04:03 AM PST by Jumper
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To: marcusmaximus

It’s what happens in a War.


15 posted on 11/17/2024 5:14:32 AM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: marcusmaximus

A very telling bid to try to make conditions as so miserable to drive Ukes to peace negotiations.

Russians are as tired of this war as Ukes - and negotiations, with new American administration, might be more favorable all around than might normally be considered.


16 posted on 11/17/2024 6:22:14 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Jimmy Valentine
The Russians don’t attack military targets, just civilian buildings and infrastructure like power plants and water service. There really needs to be a way to get this thing called off.

Well, it actually was "called off." It happened within weeks after the SMO by Russia began back in early 2022. It was nixed at the last minute by the geniuses in the West (Boris Johnson).

Remember the feel-good promises, "We'll back you for as long it takes, for as long as needed , for as long we can........ooops, wonder what's next?

17 posted on 11/17/2024 6:23:23 AM PST by icclearly
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To: marcusmaximus

How about a show of hands? Who here wants Russia to win, and why? Who wants Ukraine to win, and why? Am I wrong in my impression that there is an awful lot of pro-Russian sentiment here?


18 posted on 11/17/2024 6:26:21 AM PST by Rockingham
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... Who here wants Russia to win, and why? Who wants Ukraine to win, and why? ...


19 posted on 11/17/2024 6:52:46 AM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Rockingham

I want PEACE—a lasting Peace. No clear winner will be a win for all. Russia can’t just go home, nor can it seize Ukraine. A settlement must be reached or this will become a forever war that will last well into the next decade. It will limit Russia—but at a terrible cost. It will break NATO and America and might just devolve into WW III—a war of nations and this time our oceans will not protect us. This one we night lose to the new Axis. Even a win will be so costly it will forever change us and the world.


20 posted on 11/17/2024 7:32:02 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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