Posted on 01/08/2025 12:28:20 PM PST by marcusmaximus
A state of emergency has been declared in the Russian city of Engels after a Ukrainian drone strike hit an oil depot that supplies Russia's nuclear bomber planes.
Saratov regional governor Roman Busargin said that two firefighters had been killed while tackling the blaze.
A huge fire exploded at the “Kristal” oil complex, as well as multiple explosions, in the city of Engels after long-range strikes, said Ukraine’s military.
It added that the oil depot supplied fuel to the “Engels-2” military airfield, where Russia’s nuclear bomber fleet is based.
“The strike of the oil depot creates serious logistical problems for the strategic aviation of the Russian occupiers and significantly reduces their ability to strike at peaceful Ukrainian cities and civilian objects,” the Ukrainian military said.
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Works for me.
Canada much?
The homoglobo spammingstarts up again
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What Putin air defense doink?
The war of words between Republicans and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has intensified, with Ted Cruz calling him a "moron" and accusing him of "campaigning for Kamala Harris."
Cruz and Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance have led the attacks on Zelensky, who is currently on tour in the United States and visited an ammunition factory in Pennsylvania this week with Governor Josh Shapiro, a key ally of Vice President Harris.
House Republicans, angered that no member of their party was invited on the Pennsylvania tour and that Zelensky's flight was paid for by the U.S. taxpayer, have launched an investigation.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has also demanded that Zelensky dismiss the Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, for facilitating the tour, which he claimed was "clearly a partisan campaign event designed to help Democrats and is clearly election interference.'
"Ukraine's President Zelensky came to Pennsylvania and is essentially campaigning for Kamala Harris and he's attacking Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. It is shocking, I do not ever recall ever seeing a foreign leader do this. It's infuriating," Ted Cruz said during his Verdict podcast on Wednesday.
The latter criticism was referring to a recent New Yorker interview, in which Zelensky questioned former President Trump's understanding of the war in Ukraine and described Vance as "too radical".
In what Cruz called "one of the greatest unforced errors" he had ever seen from a foreign leader, Zelensky said in the New Yorker interview: "My feeling is that Trump doesn't really know how to stop the war even if he might think he knows how."
"With this war, oftentimes, the deeper you look at it the less you understand," he added.
Zelensky is now at the end of his trip, in which he has spoken at the United Nations and presented his "victory plan" for the war to the Biden administration.
Focus on the visit, however, has been directed at the comments made by the foreign leader concerning Donald Trump.
Ass backwards butt kissing Putinista much?
where did your trudeau go?
Ukrainian attack drones hitting Engels oil depot again right now.
Other than he’s resigning, I don’t know.
My President (thankfully only for a short while more) is Joe Biden.
My next President will be Donald Trump.
Who is yours?
What Putin air defense doink?
What Elensky ground defense doink?
We’re trading Minnesota to Canada for part of Greenland.
It's certainly a good thing that no Russian attack drones or missiles are hitting Ukraine energy centers again.
Doink.
Hunka and Steve can get together at the GOPee Briefs Room and fight over marcus’s Special Ukraine Sock once he’s Canadian...
Cheerleading Clowns.
Bo Dietl in Rao’s, Nice!
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