Posted on 11/20/2024 9:34:00 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The United States Embassy in Kyiv issued an urgent warning on Wednesday that Russia was planning “a significant air attack,” closing the embassy and telling employees to shelter in place.
Air raid alerts are a daily fact of life in Ukraine and the capital comes under frequent drone and missile attacks, but the embassy rarely issues such a specific alert.
The warning came one day after Ukraine’s military used American-made ballistic missiles to strike Russian territory for the first time, after President Biden lifted restrictions on their use.
Ukraine struck an ammunition depot in the Bryansk region of southwestern Russia using the American-made ballistic missiles, known as ATACMS, for Army Tactical Missile System.
The Kremlin vowed to respond. “We will be taking this as a qualitatively new phase of the Western war against Russia,” Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei V. Lavrov, said at a news conference on Tuesday. “And we will react accordingly.”
The embassy did not offer details about the expected attack, but it urged Americans in the city to pay special attention to air raid alerts.
An explosion rang out in the capital just before 8 a.m. when air defense teams shot down a drone, Ukrainian officials said. Falling debris sparked a fire at a multistory residential building. There was no immediate information on casualties. Such drone attacks have become increasingly common in recent weeks.
During 1,000 days of war, city officials said, there have been about 1,370 alerts in Kyiv, lasting more than 1,550 hours in total — meaning that if residents spent every hour of every alert in a shelter, they would have spent more than two months in bunkers.
Over that time, Russia has targeted the capital with more than 2,500 missiles and drones, according to data collected by the city’s military administration.
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No US Embassy???
But who is gonna organize gay pride month now??!!
Have you seen the size of the Embassy buildings? Is there a need for that much ‘diplomacy’? The reason it is a target is that it is probably one of the CIA’s biggest field offices.
Now THERE's clarity.
Given that Iskander is reported to have a range of about 300 miles -- according to *WIKI" -- the above seems quite the stuff of "Russian and Ukrainian mil bloggers."
Leftards think President Trump will get us into a war.
Meanwhile, whomever is running the country on behalf of Joe Biden is pushing hard to start WW3. A nuclear war.
Gosh, who’d a thunk launching ballistic missiles into Russia would lead to this? Shocking!
“Have you seen the size of the Embassy buildings? Is there a need for that much ‘diplomacy’? The reason it is a target is that it is probably one of the CIA’s biggest field offices.”
That’s been well-documented around the world, with the US embassy in Georgia being one of the worst offenders, as the embassies are used to start ‘color revolutions’. Taking out this massive complex in Kiev will likely be Putin’s smartest play of the war, as it will leave our operatives there rudderless and hence Zelensky isolated (very nice of the Neocons to play into Putin’s hands).
Similar reason as to why we took out China’s embassy in Belgrade, by the way.
Is there an echo in here?
Gee. One would almost think the Administration knows full well what they intend to do, provoking a Russian response, in escalating the war.
Anyone who believes those missile batteries are manned by Ukrainians is a sucker.
Notice how desperately they try to avoid saying Biden...
They are shredding documents and purging files under cover of closing an embassy due to threats.
Good point.
What Hunter Biden and Burisma files? We don't know anything!
You mean they are not working from home already? For the past 4 years, like in DC? Huh.
LOL
Those monstrous Russians protecting their kids from LGBTQ organizations, pushing for people to have children...etc.
Putin is a BAD man that knows what will make a GOOD country.
Maybe he watched the west decay and a man in a skirt join our congress.
He kills his enemies, he’s a KGB throwback...but a country has a right to protect itself from having missiles on its doorsteps.
And NOT WOULD put missiles on his doorsteps in Ukraine.
How’d the work out when Cuba tried it? What did we do?
I guess your link just broke Reddit. The whole site currently seems to be down. “We’re working on it” is their message.
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