Posted on 11/19/2024 3:45:00 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
KYIV — Ukraine fired at least six U.S.-made ATACMS missiles at a weapons depot in the Bryansk region on Tuesday, the first use of the weapons against a target inside Russia, according to Russian and Ukrainian officials.
The Russian Defense Ministry played down the effectiveness of the attack, however. “Ukraine’s armed forces last night struck a facility in the Bryansk region with six U.S.-made ATACMS missiles, with five missiles shot down and one damaged,” the ministry said in a statement.
A Ukrainian official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, confirmed the use of the weapon systems overnight and officials in the Defense Ministry said the target was in Bryansk.
On Sunday, it was reported that Washington was reversing a long-standing policy of forbidding Ukrainian forces from using the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS inside Russia. The move came after about 10,000 elite North Korean troops were sent to Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops have taken territory.
“The Russian Federation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in the event of conventional aggression against it,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Speaking in Rio de Janeiro, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said “the fact that ATACMS were repeatedly used against the Bryansk region last night is a clear signal that they want an escalation.”
Earlier on Tuesday, Ukraine’s military general staff said in a post on Facebook that its forces had “caused fire damage” to “warehouses with ammunition for the army of the Russian occupiers,” in the city of Karachev in Russia’s Bryansk region, just over 70 miles from the Ukraine border.
The statement did not specify that ATACMS had been used, however. The attack caused “12 secondary explosions and detonations in the area of...”
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We already know.
Boy! Those “Attack’ems” missiles are sure going to change things!
I think the deal is that Biden gets 90%.
Run up your credit cards, folks.
After Christmas it may not matter.
“Ukraine uses U.S.-made ATACMS missiles inside Russia for the first time”
All good and well bombing Serbia, Libya, and other countries with tidbit militaries, but let’s see how ‘macho’ the Neocons are when they face a country able to fight back, and in ways they never dreamed of.
Biden is making peace more difficult. Putin won’t fall for it. Zalensky is a crook and a fraud and the people of Ukraine will be better off without him. Russia will get their land back, Zalensky will go in exile, and Trump, Ukraine will not get in NATO and peace will be restored.
FJB is just a puppet for the globalist psychopaths. At this point they would rather have the entire world engulfed in a nuclear war than surrender power to Trump.
The next 60 days will be the most dangerous in world history.
Give Putin some credit, He may be a ruthless thug but he is not stupid.
We have a ruthless thug President, but he's stupid.
What matters is the ability of Russia to advance militarily.
For about two years, Ukraine was able to block Russian advances and roll back previous ones. Ukraine appears not to be able to do that now, while Russian forces can advance at what probably is a high cost.
Putin may not like the missile attacks, especially after too many glasses of vodka, but since they won’t really matter Putin is unlikely to take radical action.
In all honesty, I’m scared out of my mind because of this. I’m beginning to think that nuclear war may be a possibility, and that Biden was ordered by whoever his handler is to start a nuke war before Trump takes office.
I’m starting to think that the Deep State wants our country destroyed just to spite Trump and us, his supporters.
Says the alcohol-obsessed drunk.
That is absolutely the case. They would rather burn it all to the ground then surrender power to anybody, but especially Trump.
Dems are going to push Putin into launching a nuke on the USA.
Biden, Zeepers and Alex Soros want to start WW3
Whatever happened to those F-15’s YouCrayne had?
Did Ruzzia shoot them all down.
Nobody wants nuclear war.
Do you think Putin wants Russia to be destroyed in a mutual suicide pact. Putin is not stupid.
“We have a ruthless thug President, but he’s stupid.”
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Stupid with delusions of grandeur to boot. It’s a serious problem the world needs to eliminate, sooner rather than later.
I remember in the Cuban Missile Crisis that one thing affecting Khrushchev’s decision was that Castro said he planned to take over the missiles and attack the US. This situation is sounding too similar.
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