Location of the Ukrainian drone attack in northern Crimea...
Posted on 03/21/2023 10:51:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Ukrainian drone strike destroyed a shipment of cruise missiles intended for use by Russia's Black Sea fleet.
Ukraine's defence ministry said on Monday that an explosion in Dzhankoi in the north of the Crimean peninsula destroyed a number of Kalibr missiles, which are designed to be launched from ships.
"An explosion in Dzhankoi city in the north of temporarily occupied Crimea destroyed Russian Kalibr-KN cruise missiles as they were being transported by rail," the ministry's main intelligence directorate said in social media posts.
Ihor Ivin, the Russian-installed head of the Dzhankoi administration, was quoted as saying the city had come under attack from drones and a 33-year-old man suffered a shrapnel injury from a downed drone. He was hospitalised and expected to survive.
Tass quoted Mr Ivin as saying on Krym-24 TV that a house, school and grocery store caught fire, and the power grid sustained damage.
Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine's interior minister, tweeted a video that he claimed was an explosion in Dzhankoi:
Oleg Kryuchkov, an adviser to the Russia-installed head of Crimea, said the drone attack was aimed at civilian targets.
"All the drones targeted civilian sites. One was hit over the Dzhankoi technical school and came down between the instruction area and a student residence," he said on his Telegram channel.
"There are no military sites nearby. The others were downed in residential areas. In addition to explosives, each one carried shrapnel."
None of the reports could be independently verified.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Crimea River..............................
According to a description in BBC:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65021987
“Dzhankoi has been used by Russian forces as a rail hub between Crimea and other areas of occupied Ukraine. Russian TV reports said that Tuesday’s strike had not caused any damage to rail infrastructure.”
“Oleg Kryuchkov, an adviser to the Russia-installed head of Crimea, said the drone attack was aimed at civilian targets.”
Baby food factory, wedding, an old folks’ home, an animal rescue...
Orphanage, Kindergarten, hospital...................
wouldn’t it be ironic if Ukraine used a Chinese-built drone?
piss me a lake.. you pay for the funeral, I’ll pay for the wahe
“ None of the reports could be independently verified.”
So, once upon a time then.
RE: Orphanage, Kindergarten, hospital...................
When Russians did the same to the Ukrainian cities, their reasoning was because these are the places where weapons are hidden. So, I guess what’s good for the goose....
According to Kiev
Video shows a single explosion, not of great magnitude, if was supposed to be hitting a trainload of missiles
Russians said it hit a building
Draw your own conclusions
Western intel would have imagery to support this claim, if true
Good. Now sink the ships
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Too much smoking going on! Whatz air defenze doink?
Yawn. The war reporting is utterly useless.
This means they are within range of keeping that railroad supply line out of service indefinitely. Do it!
“Russia’s region chief blames drone attack...”
Maybe you should blame your decision to invade a sovereign country.
“sovereign country” - lol - you mean a puppet state of globalist money launderers and military/industrial criminals. A state that was also conducting ethnic cleansing against Russians.
Ukraine was not conducting ethnic cleansing.
“Ethnic Russians” or “Russian speakers are not “suppressed” as you claim - I am basing my conclusion on the experience I had in hosting refugees from Ukraine here in Poland — I live right next to the border, Most of the refugees I helped were escaping Kyiv but also those escaping Donetsk and Luhansk
All were primarily Russian speakers. Some identified as “ethnic Russian”, but they all said they were Ukrainian
I have asked them (we’re in contact with quite a few of them even though they moved either back to Kyiv (for the Kyiv folks) or to Krakow/Warszawa for others - anyway so I asked them if they, the Russian ethnic people or Russian speakers felt “oppressed”
The response, the overwhelming response from them regarding this was - utter bewilderment. They all said that they didn’t feel oppressed, suppressed for being Russian or /Russian speakers. They all also were P*ssed off wth putin for “saving” them by destroying their cities, their homes
Before 2014 they felt close to Russia. After Putin’s invasion in 2022, they identify as Ukrainian - and they were taking efforts to speak only Ukrainian — as a personal sign of defiance against Putin
So Putin has actually turned Russian ethnics in Ukraine against being “Russian”
Furthermore, I have colleagues who live and work in Krakow and have lived there since 2014 — Russian “ethnics”, Russian speakers who fled Putin’s 2014 invasion and came to Poland, not to Russia.
So don’t repeat the Putinist propaganda please
And the Russians were lying those times as well.
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