Posted on 08/10/2022 6:21:40 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukraine's special forces were responsible for a series of deadly explosions which destroyed parts of a crucial Russian airbase in Crimea yesterday, killing one and injuring 14 according to a Ukrainian government official.
Up to ten Russian aircraft were destroyed in the attack, the Ukrainian air force said, which an anonymous official told the Washington Post had been carried out by special forces – despite claims yesterday that long-range missiles could have been used.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meanwhile vowed to 'liberate' the peninsula previously part of Ukraine but annexed by Russia in 2014 despite international condemnation.
Zelensky did not directly mention yesterday's explosions, the cause of which has not yet been officially confirmed, but spoke with conviction as he declared: 'Crimea is Ukrainian, and we will never give it up... The Russian war against Ukraine and the whole of free Europe must end with Crimea and its liberation.'
The President's comments come as hordes of Russians seemingly began to fleeing the Crimea in the wake of the explosions which left one dead and 14 injured according to the latest reports.
The blasts rang out around 3:30pm local time yesterday afternoon at the Russian-held Novofedorivka military airbase in Western Crimea, which is located within sight of a popular beach.
Videos circulating yesterday on the Telegram messaging app showed dozens of shocked beachgoers watching trails of smoke snaking from the base before hastily evacuating the shore.
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Well done SF guys!!
Great catch.
Thank you Vladimir for your input.
That is definitely a problem for the Russians. Their ammo dumps blow up repeatedly. Must be guys like these young Russians running for their lives.
Their dialog is hilarious. But it keeps getting worse and worse...
Why they have not already dropped that span is beyond me.
“Globohomo”
It just wouldn’t be a perfect day on Free Republic without one of you Putin puffers bringing up homosexuality.
You people have a real problem. You need therapy for it and I wish you’d stop posting your degenerate imagery on a family friendly website.
Pictured: Hero to FR trolls everywhere!!
There is video now of melted cars from miles away, and video of completely destroyed SU-34s. The explosions seem to have been at 4 or 5 different locations. Possibly all aircraft at the base has been damaged or destroyed. 37 aircraft in total.
I guess the Russkies technically haven't lost the base. There's some buildings left standing!
They also had 124% voter turnout in Sevestopol despite observers noting no one was out voting, other than Russian soldiers, Russian journalists, and there was a single lone Crimean Tatar who was protesting who got dragged away and was found later with a knife through his eye socket and into his brain, with other signs of torture.
I don't think you want to build a "this vote was completely legitimate!" argument based on such a foundation.
Russian fighter attacks on Ukrainian positions in Kherson region mysteriously stopped today. I wonder why.
Proof? Russia has already been caught lying 4 or 5 times just about this incident. Initially they said all these explosions were caused by a Russian dropping a cigarette.
It is globohomo propaganda...MI6 is undoubtedly the source. For the Tards...assuming that the explosions were the work of a sabotage team, so what? The UFA has some very capable men, but the attack, assuming that’s what it was, has no tactical or strategic importance (nice visual for propaganda, though). Meanwhile, even though all Russian soldiers in Ukraine have been killed by the heroic NeoNazi units of the UFA, and the Russian lines now are manned by babushkas armed with only broom handles (because MI6 and the Biden/Neocon/WEF propaganda machine tells us so), the UFA is losing about about 1,000 KIA/day, the UFA’s heavy fortifications in its remaining defensive lines in the Donbass have been breached, and Bakhmut and other critical cities formerly held by the UFA are in the process of falling. Who knew grannies with broom handles could be so deadly? Maybe the Biden administration’s FBI thugs ought to consider recommending legislating broom handle control and putting grannies on the domestic terrorist watch list - they might mobilize here, after all.
As for the 100 km traffic jam allegedly resulting from a few explosions in a part of Russia that has essentially seen no conflict during during the SMO, you can believe that if you want, but it’s highly unlikely.
BTW, Tards, have you noticed that the Poles are quietly, with the conivance of the Zelensky regime, positioning themselves to reacquire Galicia when the Biden administration/NATO/WEF/NeoCons are done wrecking the formerly peaceful, but corrupt, Ukraine? Didn’t think so.
cool story, bro. Zelensky and his globohomo allies, who just got a blank check from the U.S. taxpayers, are the ones trying to push through degenerate homo ‘marriage’ during a time of war. That is their priority. Pushing the fags onto the populace and tearing asunder any vestige of Christianity in Ukraine.
So, you are completely incorrect (or just intellectually dishonest). It is the deep state controlled Western nations that are obsessed with homos. And just like a deep state leftist, you project what they are doing onto the other side .
So far as this website is concerned if anyone is going to mention homosexuality odds are it’s gonna be one of you mutts.
How about both?
If the Russian forces also take Kryvyi Rih and Dnipro they will have about 75-80% of Ukraine's pre-war GDP under their control. Russia's war effort is currently financed by the 'west' which pays for it through record energy prices created by its own sanctions on Russia.
As the Russian Interfax agency reported yesterday (machine translation):
The positive balance of the current account of the balance of payments of the Russian Federation in January-July 2022 amounted to $166.6 billion, which is 3.3 times more than in the same period in 2021 ($50.1 billion). Such information is contained in the assessment of the balance of payments of the Russian Federation, published on the website of the Bank of Russia.
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According to the base scenario of the Central Bank’s forecast for 2022, updated in July, with an average annual oil price of $80 per barrel, the current account surplus is expected to be $243 billion, the positive balance of foreign trade in goods and services - $277 billion, and the negative balance of primary and secondary income - $33 billion. If the 'west' really wants to deprive Russia of money it must immediately lift the sanctions and restart importing oil, gas and coal from Russia at then much lower prices.
Russia will not lack money to finance the rebuilding of Novorossiya's great industries. Once that is done those areas are evidently able to support themselves and to guarantee a high standard of living. They will also have enough money to militarily defend themselves against anything the poor rest of Ukraine will be able to finance.
At the end of March, after negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey, there was nearly an agreement on a ceasefire and on the end of the war. Joe Biden then tasked Boris Johnson with telling Zelensky to continue the war. The 'west' would otherwise stop paying him. Zelensky did as he was told and stopped all negotiations with Russia.
An agreement with Russia at that time would have kept the Ukraine mostly as one state with only minor losses in the Donbas. But the decision to continue the hopeless war also ended all chances for Ukraine to keep its riches.
It will be poor and helpless while its 'western' neighbors will feast on it.
Populations that vote against US agendas…seldom have “ legitimate” elections, do they?
Expect more of the same this fall when 2 more regions of Ukraine vote on breaking away and joining Russia
Just stick with Kiev
They never lie
GOOD!
RUSSIAN SCUM!
KILL ‘EM ALL!
Stick with Kiev
They consistently publish truthful news
Kiev yesterday was lighting candles to St HIMARS
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