Posted on 05/06/2025 4:13:55 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Moscow closed all four of its main airports for several hours into Tuesday after state media reported the military had shot down 105 Ukrainian drones overnight.
Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, said that at least 19 drones were destroyed on their way to the capital as it prepares for Victory Day celebrations this week.
Debris fell on a major avenue in the city's south without causing injuries, Sobyanin wrote on Telegram.
Governors in other Russian cities, including Penza and Voronezh, said they had also been targeted by Ukrainian drones.
It was the second night in a row that Russia has reported a Ukrainian drone attack, after the defence ministry claimed it had destroyed 26 overnight on Monday.
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They are likely reduced to various levels of nuclear saber rattling by now. I think they are already using all they can make of non-nuclear weapons daily in the Ukraine invasion so what does that leave? Is a Russian use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine credible or not? Where does Putin want to go on the FAFO scale?
Russia has supposedly put a thermobaric warhead bomb on a Shaheed drone to use against Ukraine.
Ukraine could do the same and fling at Russian cities, civilian deaths be damned. Will they?
Is it cheaper and more effective for Ukraine to build and buy receive drones than try to field tanks against the Russian invasion?
I find it interesting that Russia still has not cannot? achieve air superiority over the Ukraine fronts and largely uses their aircraft to launch glide bombs from a distance or even from Russian territory into Ukraine. Perhaps their pilots are not experienced enough to use the remaining aircraft efficiently in other ways? I wonder if they get much less training and annual practice in the air than Western pilots?
Kyiv successfully seizing a portion of the region would likely serve as a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of his May 9 Victory Day parade, where he has been touting his military’s success throughout his full-scale invasion of his neighbor.
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-kursk-incursion-tetkino-war-2068102
Must hope this escalation does not provoke even worse retaliation by the Russians. However, the dry season approaches which will makes large mechanized offensive operations much easier for both sides. Ukrainians better hope the Russians don’t have a breakthrough offensive, because momentum could carry the fight far to the west. And if Belarus ever takes serious sides with Russia, it would be curtains for Zelenskii.
They tried that in Kursk, lost thousands of their best troops and were driven out.
Must have been mighty embarrassing to Putin, losing part of the motherland.
Ukraine is losing territory it will never get back.
“You mean like when Russia “lost” Kursk “
Yes. Mighty big embarrassment for Putin.
There was never any chance Ukraine was going to hold territory within in Russia.
Even the BBC understands that:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q198zyppqo
Ukrainian soldiers fighting in Russia's Kursk region have described scenes "like a horror movie" as they retreated from the front lines.
The BBC has received extensive accounts from Ukrainian troops, who recount a "catastrophic" withdrawal in the face of heavy fire, and columns of military equipment destroyed and constant attacks from swarms of Russian drones.
The soldiers, who spoke over social media, were given aliases to protect their identity. Some gave accounts of a "collapse" as Ukraine lost Sudzha, the largest town it held.
“Invading Kursk was disaster for Ukraine, costing it tens of thousands of lives.
There was never any chance Ukraine was going to hold territory within in Russia.”
It cost Russia more.
There is absolutely no evidence to back that up.
Russia has and continues to have an overwhelming advantage in ammo and missiles fired, meaning that Ukraine is suffering far more causalities.
But, you such sick, sociopath you don't give a damn how many Ukrainians die trying to occupy territory it can't hold.
“But, you such sick, sociopath you don’t give a damn how many Ukrainians die trying to occupy territory it can’t hold.”
You are losing it!
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