Posted on 04/16/2022 2:13:02 PM PDT by dynachrome
MOSCOW, April 16. /TASS/. Russian air defense units have brought down a military transport plane carrying Western arms outside Odessa, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday.
"Near Odessa Russian anti-aircraft defense forces have shot down a Ukrainian military transport plane, which was delivering a large shipment of arms supplied to Ukraine by Western counties," he said.
In addition, according to Konashenkov, operational and tactical aviation destroyed 67 areas of concentration of Ukrainian military personnel and hardware in the past 24 hours.
(Excerpt) Read more at tass.com ...
Could be fake news. Is there confirmation?
TASS.?
IF it were CNN, or MSNBC or PRAVDA. . . . .
DOD loading stuff at Dover AFB, bound for Ukraine, so who knows.
“Supply crates containing munitions and other explosive material bound for Ukraine are loaded at Dover Air Force Base in March 2022.”
https://twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/1514979079719731217
Do you mean fake news like “Ukraine is winning this war”?
Half of Ukraine cities are now un-livable. Power plants bombed out, water supply gone. Okay they might still get wireless phone service.
Russian version of CNN news.
“ Half of Ukraine cities are now un-livable. Power plants bombed out, water supply gone.”
That’s what Soviets do. The lose ships, airplanes, tanks, generals, lieutenants, soldiers…. They retaliate by destroying hospitals, maternity wards ,theaters and killing civilians.
“Do you mean fake news like “Ukraine is winning this war”?”
I don’t think either side is “winning” at this point. The odds favor Russia, but underdogs sometimes pull out a victory. We’ll have a better idea in a few weeks.
But, no matter who triumphs in the invasion, Russia is the loser geo-politically.
TASS.?
Ukraine is or has won the propaganda war but I think Russia will still pull out a victory at the end of the day. And I bet we lose in the long run as the US will cough up most of the money to help rebuild Ukraine.
Russia doe NOT want to occupy Ukraine by wining the war. Ukraine is bigger than Texas. I drove across Texas in my car. I saw how big it is. Russia is not over-populated country and does not have enough soldiers to “occupy” all of Ukraine. Russia simply wants to reclaim Donbas and control of Black sea, the territory which belonged to Russia in the past. But Soros puppet and homo-erotic dancer Zelensky is not willing to give up the any territory because he is told by NATO & USA that they will support Ukraine. Zelensky would rather see Ukraine residential buildings, power plants, water systems etc destroyed because of his ego rather than reach a agreement with Russia.
What exactly sounds fake to you?
Please see my post #11
US will cough up most of the money to help rebuild Ukraine.
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Minus, of course, the Washington district of cartels Biden Pelosi Kerry Romney crime Famalies cut.
“Do you mean fake news like “Ukraine is winning this war”?
Half of Ukraine cities are now un-livable. Power plants bombed out, water supply gone. Okay they might still get wireless phone service.”
I suspect even Mariupol is much more livable than the crew quarters aboard the Moskva. I don’t know about the wireless service, though. Do you think the wireless aboard the Moskva is better than that in Odessa?
“homo-erotic dancer”
I can’t help but notice that the pro-Putin supporters on FR talk about homosexual issues quite a bit.
Is there anything you folks would like to tell us?
—”What exactly sounds fake to you?”
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.
“Russia doe NOT want to occupy Ukraine by wining the war. Ukraine is bigger than Texas. I drove across Texas in my car. I saw how big it is. Russia is not over-populated country and does not have enough soldiers to “occupy” all of Ukraine. Russia simply wants to reclaim Donbas and control of Black sea, the territory which belonged to Russia in the past.”
Russia wants the natural resources of Donbas; it doesn’t give a sh!t about Donbas otherwise. Control the Black Sea? Turkey closes the Bosphorus and the Black Sea is the Black Lake. Besides, Russia has Black Sea ports: Taman; Novorossiysk; Sochi; and Tuapse. Spend some bucks and develop them.
“But Soros puppet and homo-erotic dancer Zelensky is not willing to give up the any territory because he is told by NATO & USA that they will support Ukraine.”
You lost any credibility with such ad-hominems, the last refuge of people who can’t win on reason and sound argument.
this is the first time Russians did this -- and this is because the cargo plane decided to cut time by going over the Black Sea direct to Ukraine, the usual route is to Poland and then on the ground. Likely reason: whatever the cargo was was considered urgent.
And for the nationality of the crew -- does this matter? There are British and American operatives there, some are getting killed. The one reported today is below
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