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Humiliated Putin loses warplanes worth £148,000,000 despite stepping up security
Metro UK ^ | 6/28/2025 | Brooke Davies

Posted on 06/28/2025 4:23:23 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

Vladimir Putin has lost four warplanes worth £37 million each despite stepping up their defences after Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb.

A pair of Su-34 fighters were destroyed and two more damaged after an attack on on Marinovka military airfield in Volgograd.

Ukraine used long range drones to fly more than 200 miles to inflict the latest £148 million blow to Putin’s aerial firepower.

It came less than a month after Russia supposedly tightened its military air base security after 40-plus strategic bombers and spy planes were hit in Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb.

Russia responded by hitting Ukrainian civilians with a strike on a 21-storey residential block in Odesa, killing a married couple and leaving at least 14 others wounded including children aged three and seven.

Furious Russian military analysts confirmed the damage to the Su-34 multi-role fighters used on the frontline for bombing missions against Ukraine, including dropping guided aerial bombs.

The latest attack was admitted by pro-war Russian Telegram channel Fighterbomber which raged that the hit ‘could and should have been prevented’.

‘There is no point in commenting on Marinovka….and it would be nice if not only the [Ukrainians] were held accountable….otherwise, it will continue like this.’

The channel expressed fury at the ‘multi-billion dollar’ losses Putin’s forces are suffering.

(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 06/28/2025 4:23:23 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Luckily for Putin, Zelinski doesn’t have any cards to play.


2 posted on 06/28/2025 4:33:37 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Dr. Franklin

You’re right, but
he does have NATO cards to play..


3 posted on 06/28/2025 5:03:06 AM PDT by A strike (Make RealID required for voting )
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To: A strike
Humiliated Putin loses warplanes worth £148,000,000 despite stepping up security

Did The Putin check under the table? Sometimes stuff rolls under the table...  

4 posted on 06/28/2025 5:05:23 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Dr. Franklin

The daily mugasm...


5 posted on 06/28/2025 5:06:14 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: marcusmaximus; A strike
after 40-plus strategic bombers and spy planes were hit in Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb


6 posted on 06/28/2025 5:09:04 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: marcusmaximus
Is lil Brooke even in her teens?

I guess sWill Stewart is having a mini-vacay and MI-6 brought in the grade-schoolers from the bench.

7 posted on 06/28/2025 5:14:31 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: marcusmaximus

If I were Putin I would come to conclusion that the only effective defense is nukes targeting NATO assets and population centers, with maybe the occasional bounty posted for high profile targets on the side. The policy could be posted in the form of a simple flow diagram that would be easy enough for the world to understand.


8 posted on 06/28/2025 5:30:54 AM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Utterly humiliated, totally debased. Probably gonna off himself annnny day now.


9 posted on 06/28/2025 5:44:13 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: The Duke

An even better defense would be to leave Ukraine. Putin invaded a country and is now in the middle of war. The nature of war being both sides fight including on both combatants territory.

He wil not use to support his invasion. To do so will force a response. If piting can take what he wants by using a nuke them there is no logical stopping point for him.


10 posted on 06/28/2025 6:17:12 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: A strike

“ You’re right, but
he does have NATO cards to play..”

Not without the United States, and Trump doesn’t seem to eager to help Zelensky. FAFO. Zelensky came to DC, embarrassed himself and Trump in front of the entire world. He FA’d and FO.


11 posted on 06/28/2025 6:20:50 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS much?)
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To: marcusmaximus

Does it matter? Neither side seems to be using planes and it’s become more like WWI artillery exchanges except they do have effective drones.


12 posted on 06/28/2025 6:43:40 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Oh look! Another British tabloid. There’s a shock.


13 posted on 06/28/2025 6:43:46 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: marcusmaximus

‘There is no point in commenting on Marinovka….and it would be nice if not only the [Ukrainians] were held accountable….otherwise, it will continue like this.’
———
Held accountable? Putin started this war! Any damage to Russia is on him!


14 posted on 06/28/2025 6:44:51 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: marcusmaximus

Meanwhile, ….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AamJBPe5Ulg

Russia Boosts Its Long-Range Capabilities🚀Ukrainians Retreat from Zirka🏴 Military Summary 2025.06.28

Vlad is gobbling up village after village, across all fronts….Zaparhoznia region next up on Vlad’s chopping block.


15 posted on 06/28/2025 7:40:31 AM PDT by delta7
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To: DownInFlames

Putin started this war!
————
Once again, the war started in 2014 when the Ukies began shelling the Donbass….St Z’s neoNazis lead the charge on Donetsk and Lughansk provinces….well documented.


16 posted on 06/28/2025 7:44:00 AM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

“Once again, the war started in 2014 when the Ukies began shelling the Donbass…”

Once again: Following the impeachment of the relatively pro-Russia Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Russia invaded Crimea, overthrew the elected autonomous government and claimed to annex it in 2014.


17 posted on 06/28/2025 7:57:53 AM PDT by TexasGator (1.DD logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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To: delta7

“St Z’s neoNazis lead the charge on Donetsk and Lughansk provinces….well documented.”


Many commentators have already debunked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s absurd claim to be waging war to “de-nazify” Ukraine.

https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2022/opinion/russias-long-history-of-neo-nazis


18 posted on 06/28/2025 8:00:02 AM PDT by TexasGator (1.DD logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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To: delta7

“Vlad is gobbling up village after village, across all fronts…”

Russia holds less territory now than in 2022.

Russia is going broke fighting this two week war.


19 posted on 06/28/2025 8:01:33 AM PDT by TexasGator (1.DD logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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To: marcusmaximus
Russian Forces Launch Offensive Along Eastern Section of Frontline

Russia Boosts Its Long-Range Capabilities🚀Ukrainians Retreat from Zirka🏴 Military Summary 2025.06.28

US/EU Turns On Zelensky Gives Up On Kiev, Aid Dwindles, Russians Encircle Pokrovsk

20 posted on 06/28/2025 8:20:08 AM PDT by Kazan
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