https://twitter.com/Etern8tyOSINT/status/1599834179398606848
Posted on 12/05/2022 2:52:36 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Explosions have been reported at two airfields in central Russia, hundreds of kilometers to the east of the combat zone in Ukraine. The incidents came as Russia has carried out a massive campaign of air strikes inside Ukraine targeting the country’s power grid and other civilian infrastructure.
At least one large explosion occurred at a Russian military air base in the Saratov region, about 600 kilometers east of Ukraine, while another blast was reported by Russian state media at an airfield outside Ryazan, southeast of Moscow.
Social-media posts by residents in the cities of Engels and Saratov seemed to show a large explosion at the Engels-2 air base at about 6 a.m. local time on December 5.
Saratov Governor Roman Busargin issued a statement calling for local residents to remain calm amid the reports but neither confirmed nor denied them.
“I want to state that no extraordinary events have taken place in the residential parts of the city,” he wrote.
“There is no reason for concern. No civilian infrastructure has been damaged. Information about events at military facilities is being checked by security agencies.”
There has been no confirmed information about the cause of the explosion.
The independent Russian Telegram channel Astra cited unidentified sources as saying an unidentified drone crashed into the base and that two long-range Tu-95 bombers were damaged and two military personnel were injured.
The Engels-2 air base has reportedly been used as a launching platform for Tu-95 air strikes inside Ukraine, against which Russia launched a massive, unprovoked military invasion on February 24.
Also on December 5, the RIA Novosti state news agency reported a fuel explosion at an airfield outside the city of Ryazan, about 200 kilometers southeast of Moscow.
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And Kiev is in the range of virtually every rocket Russia owns, including nukes. Zelensky, the WEF puppet, should think hard before going on that little adventure.
Anybody that takes even a semi-serious look at our country, especially our federal government, really should refrain from calling any other country a "monkey country".
Our government is literally shredding our constitution and founding documents before our very eyes, and all the braindead sheep can do is whine about Russia. Russia isn't the threat to the world - the United States Federal government is.
Be a nice gift to NATO to take out those bombers.
Also a gift to the hearing of intercept pilots all around the world.
I participated in an interception, fully armed, at a location over a decade ago.
I think my ears stopped ringing last week.
LOL May it be just the beginning...
Slava Ukraini
Would not be surprised if NATO or US troop or contractors conducted this hit. A new world war is Biden’s Christmas gift to America.
Rumors 8 Russian TU-95s destroyed by the Ukrainian drone strike.
awww ... such ashame
Wow. Great news to wake up to!
“And Kiev is in the range of virtually every rocket Russia owns, including nukes”
Do you realize a nuke strike on Kyiv will result in nuclear fallout hitting RuZZian cities from the wind? Thousands of RuZZians will die from a nuke strike on Kyiv.
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but are you saying it’s okay for Putin to bomb the hell out of Ukie infrastructure and Kyiv but it’s not acceptable for Zelensky to return the favor. That makes it seem you have a real rooting interest in Putin’s campaign.
“You realize that the Ulrainian fappin-ing is the last hoorah for Zeepin puppets on FR, don’t you?”
You do realize that the Ukrainians didn’t give up combat against the Soviets until 1955, right? They fought ten years beyond the Second World War against the second greatest world power. Ukrainians are mean bastards just like the Russians, and now they’re mean bastards with the means to strike hundreds of kilometers inside Russia. Even if the Russians win the war - and the numbers have always been on their side - the partisan war will continue and Russia will pay for it for years to come.
So Moscow and Sochi are now in range, as well as Crimea.
The Russian elite can still vacation along the Northern coastline of Chukotka, free of decadent Western cultural pollution, like satanic gay Nazi indoor plumbing.
This is fine. Better actually.
If the Ukes could take out the 2-6 Tu-160s at Engles, that would be a MAJOR blow to Russian strategic nuclear bomber delivery systems (and be left with the big, loud TU-95s) ....it would be like taking out Whiteman AFB and their B-2s...a BIG dent in nuclear warfare planning.
Putin’s mass missile attack on Ukrainian infrastructure today has been a big flop so far. Big flop.
“If the Ukes could take out the 2-6 Tu-160s at Engles, that would be a MAJOR blow to Russian strategic nuclear bomber delivery systems (and be left with the big, loud TU-95s) ....it would be like taking out Whiteman AFB and their B-2s...a BIG dent in nuclear warfare planning.”
We will probably never have a better opportunity to demilitarize Russia, and should make the most of it.
“Putin’s mass missile attack on Ukrainian infrastructure today has been a big flop so far.”
Don’t quit now Putina, deplete everything Russia has.
Ukraine shot down 85% of the Russian cruise missiles Iaunched today.
“Putin fleeing Sochi right now. “
To see his Doctor Feelgoods there. They’ll have the latest injections to make Pooty Poot feel so goooood. Every day.
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