Posted on 10/31/2022 1:48:44 PM PDT by dennisw
Ukraine has touted large numbers of Russian losses throughout the eight-month conflict, though Russia has not publicly confirmed the claims.
"This morning, the [Ukrainian] Air Force successfully shot down 44 Russian cruise missiles," the ministry tweeted. "All this before their first cup of coffee."
Russia allegedly launched 50 missiles toward "critical infrastructure facilities" in Ukraine at about 7 a.m. local time, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine wrote in a Facebook post.
The attack included Kh-101 and Kh-555 missiles, which were launched from aircraft north of the Caspian Sea from the Rostov region. Only six of the missiles managed to avoid Ukrainian defense efforts, the post said.
"44 cruise missiles were destroyed by the forces and means of the Air Forces in the areas of responsibility: Air Command 'Center' - 18, Air Command 'South' - 12, Air Command 'East' - 9, Air Command 'West' - 5!" the post reads.
Ukraine also claimed to have destroyed 14 Russian tanks, 32 armored combat vehicles, four pieces of artillery, one jet, one helicopter, one drone and eight vehicles and fuel tanks on Monday, the defense ministry wrote. Ukraine's numbers could not be independently verified by Newsweek.
Multiple explosions rocked Ukraine, including in the capital Kyiv. Strikes on critical infrastructure were reported in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Cerkasy.
Debris from one downed Russian missile fell into the northern Moldovan village of Naslavcea, damaging several houses in the village that borders Ukraine
Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba condemned the Russian missile attacks on civilian infrastructure Monday.
"Another batch of Russian missiles hits Ukraine's critical infrastructure," Kuleba tweeted. "Instead of fighting on the battlefield, Russia fights civilians. Don't justify these attacks by calling them a 'response.' Russia does this because it still has the missiles and the will to kill Ukrainians."
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You snooze, you lose ClownSki!
Seems Russia’s drunk clown army forgot to guard their own “critical infrastructure”.
A video surfaced allegedly showing the planting of explosive charges on a Russian Ka-52 helicopter by a saboteur on Veretye Air Base, Pskov Oblast - according to Russian media two helicopters there were damaged due to unknown explosions at 30th October.
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1587182889002827780
that's gotta spook you for Halloween. Go Hide under your classroom desk. Like when Khrushchev said some aimless jive at the UN. 1956 or so?
So I’m confused: Are you saying Ukraine should just lay down their arms and get destroyed by an enemy that rains missiles down on civilian infrastructure? Whatever rationales that they now offer for their humiliating defeat, Russia was out to conquer all of Ukraine. And the apologists around here talk like it was the liberation of Kuwait.
Such a good idea.
Mods, take notice.
Donations to FR are down.
Did you ever wonder why?
I second that. I mostly stay off this stuff, but I have a deep contempt for the pro-Ukrainian people who infest this place.
Did the Israeli’s give them an Iron Dome?
Did the Biden give them a few Patriot Missile batteries? Which I’m not sure would even be useful against these things, so hopefully someone on here that is more familiar with Jane’s Defense can verify.
It basically is....
B.S.
I third that.
Used to be some editorial corrections to the content.
Ive tried in the past to create a DUmmy account and id be banned after the first post. Could use that here today.
I third that. It’s like daily graffiti, only less enlightening. Definitely not newsworthy or credible by any metric.
If the Ukes had their own daily thread, I promise not to go there and rattle cages, just like the Q threads.
“… Ukraine’s numbers could not be independently verified by Newsweek.…”
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Well, that part of the article I believe. Much of the rest might be as real as Corn Pop.
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-energy-company-dtek-running-out-equipment-fix-power-outages-1755847
DTEK—the Ukrainian energy giant that provides a significant share of the country's energy supply—is running out of equipment to fix the widespread power outages the country has experienced under fire by invading Russian forces.
On Monday, officials with Ukraine's largest privately operated energy company announced it has depleted its stores of equipment following a series of attacks on the country's energy and water infrastructure over the past month. On Monday, Russian forces deployed at least 50 missiles targeting the country's electrical grid and water supplies, leaving swaths of the country without power as winter approaches.
While DTEK Executive Director Dmytro Sakharuk said Monday the company was able to purchase some equipment to offset the losses, the cost of the equipment is "now measured in hundreds of millions of dollars," with some outages estimated to last well into Tuesday.
The keyboard jingoism is insulting to the young people who actually have skin in the game.
I’m sure that more HIMARs and 155mm artillery shells would help that problem...
Did you ever wonder why?
If true, it's because all the non-stop neocon nonsense that repeats Biden regime and Ukrainian lies about a war that we've wasted billions on.
Putin’s Prime wanker Klown here at FR. What else you got? Clown.
The Ukrainian should have agreed to remained neutral, agreed not to join NATO and implemented the Minsk Agreements, which is signed and would have given Donetsk and Lugansk the same autonomy US states have.
Those reasonable requests were all Russia wanted when they came to us in December in an effort to prevent this war.
The Biden regime rejected those requests because they wanted the war to occur. And, YOU are repeating the lies of the Biden regime about his war.
“Ukrainian troops shot down 44 Russian missiles “before their first cup of coffee” on Monday morning”
Cold coffee, that is.
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