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KHMELNYTSKYI — DID RUSSIA VAPORIZE DEPLETED URANIUM SHELLS?
Sonar 21 ^ | 16 May 23 | Larry Johnson

Posted on 05/16/2023 2:39:58 PM PDT by delta7

Russia’s aerial attack on the Ukrainian city of Khmelnytskyi is catching quite a bit of attention because of reports of a spike in Gamma rays following multiple, massive explosions. Educated speculation believes that the increase in Gamma radiation may be a consequence of Russian bombs blasting British supplied depleted uranium rounds into dust.

The photo above shows the intact weapons storage facility just outside Khmelnytskyi taken some time before the Russia strike. Khmelnytskyi sits 217 miles to the west of Kiev, which means these strikes were most likely carried out by cruise missiles, such as the Kinzhal or Iskander. These strikes also provide vivid proof that Ukraine’s anti-missile air defense system is non-existent or disabled in and around Khmelnytskyi.

Let’s look at some of the video evidence. There were at least three bombs that struck this weapons depot. The first strike comes at 4:29 am (see the first video below, which shows the three strikes). That strike apparently ignited secondary explosions from ammunition and explosives stored at the targeted facility. There is a second blast recorded at 5:07 am followed by a massive explosion at 6:10 am, resulting in a black mushroom cloud towering over Khmelnytskyi.

The following photo shows the aftermath of the strikes. The big crater in the upper left hand part of the image obliterated a couple of buildings and forests. Maybe this attack, with multiple missiles, will kill the tired narrative that Russia has run out of missiles and is scraping the bottom of the barrel.

It is not clear whether or not depleted uranium shells were vaporized. What is certain is that Ukraine lost an enormous quantity of munitions of various types that cannot be easily or quickly replaced. It also is noteworthy that Russia has been carrying out these kinds of strikes, not all with the same level of success, at multiple sites throughout Ukraine for the last eight days. Whatever small advances Ukraine has managed on the flanks of Bakhmut, they do not compensate for the massive loss incurred at Khmelnytskyi. This is a graphic reminder to the Ukrainians west of Kiev that they are at war and that Ukrainian military facilities are not safe.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: freepersforputin; putin; russia; ukraine; war; zelensky
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To: delta7

Educated Speculation hahahahahahaha!


21 posted on 05/16/2023 3:29:37 PM PDT by mythenjoseph (Positive outlook)
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To: Timber Rattler

Stupid RuZZians attacked a lumber yard, and the explosion you saw was merely their sawdust silo


22 posted on 05/16/2023 3:32:27 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: higgmeister; PIF
Ukraine does not store fuel or ammo in dumps.

This statement is correct.

They store it at hospitals, kindergartens, in shopping malls, etc....

23 posted on 05/16/2023 3:35:12 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: delta7

Meanwhile, your retarded Rooooskies are playing games at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.


24 posted on 05/16/2023 3:39:48 PM PDT by dennisw (Hallucinating, dumbass, fake Tsar Putin. Prigozhin + his army need to off him.)
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To: delta7

I think you mean, let’s hope Vlad DID vaporize the DU shells / sent as ammo for the Challenger tanks the Brits sent…..before the UKA could shoot them all over the fields, settlements and cities of Donbass and Crimea


25 posted on 05/16/2023 3:40:13 PM PDT by silverleaf (It’s not propaganda just because you disagree with it. )
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To: tlozo
Discredited. Slight rise in radiation happened 48 hours BEFORE explosion.

And just in the nick of time, tlozo/Brandon arrives to set us all straight!

I am surprised, though, that it took him so long. Maybe he had trouble getting the story from his Zelensky PR/propaganda comrades.


26 posted on 05/16/2023 4:19:09 PM PDT by icclearly
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To: delta7

So just in case I misread your post, Russia fired conventional missiles at a location that they definitely knew held spent fuel rods from a nuclear power plant, which almost guarantees a cloud of fallout...

In order to destroy a DU ammo cache, which they know for an absolute cast iron fact wouldn’t create a cloud of fallout (because they’ve used DU themselves)...

And that’s a false flag by the British or Americans?!?!

No, dumbass. That’s tantamount to an admission that Russia was totally relaxed about the risk of sending a fallout cloud into the air in a city 500+ miles away from any frontline combat operations.

Ammo that far behind the front line poses a negligible threat to RF until it’s moved. Fair game in transit. If Russia really does have ears on the ground, they could’ve waited.

China already made it abundantly clear to Putin, they’ll look the other way on practically any other point but if Russia deliberately triggers a nuclear accident as they keep threatening to do, with this level of cockamamie excuse, they’ll have crossed the line.


27 posted on 05/16/2023 4:34:46 PM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe". https://www.thefabulous.co/s/2uHEJdj)
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To: PGR88

Try trucks - what a genocide-loving disinformation-spreading troll you are


28 posted on 05/16/2023 4:39:38 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: higgmeister

Another round of disinformation from a Russian troll.

Ukrainians are not as stupid as your heroic Russians


29 posted on 05/16/2023 4:41:31 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: delta7

That is one heckuva fireball.


30 posted on 05/16/2023 4:43:00 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: delta7

depleted uranium doesn’t emit gamma rays, DU only emits alpha particles like uranium ore, where said alpha rays won’t even penetrate a piece of paper ..


31 posted on 05/16/2023 4:49:25 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: icclearly
I am surprised, though, that it took him so long.


32 posted on 05/16/2023 5:24:07 PM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: FlyingEagle

Completely conventional. Atomic and nuclear have a searing bright white light.


33 posted on 05/16/2023 5:44:46 PM PDT by D Rider ( )
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To: delta7
Russia has been carrying out these kinds of strikes, not all with the same level of success, at multiple sites throughout Ukraine for the last eight days.

Looks like 5 - 9 Russian missiles hit the Ukraine aviation weapons depot at Khmelnytskyi (military unit A3013) on May 13, 2023:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

VIDEO:

https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/status/1657469321331765248

34 posted on 05/16/2023 6:01:43 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: delta7

The Foreign Agent Registration Act is being enforced these days. Thought you might find that info handy.


35 posted on 05/16/2023 8:41:40 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: delta7

So Delta7 trusts CNN for accurate news? You just blew your “disinformation” cover Comrade!


36 posted on 05/17/2023 12:09:12 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: tlozo; delta7; PIF; MalPearce; MeganC; Timber Rattler; Widget Jr; threefinger; dennisw; ...

Elsewhere I have seen the modest increase in radiation on the 11th and 12th, before the bombing on the 14th, described as caused by a strong CME (coronal mass ejection from the sun). If the sun sends Gamma rather than Alpha, that would seem a clear explanation. Also the fact that on those 2 days the same 150 levels were seen in Karkiv, whereas permanently contaminated Chernoble reading was 500 makes it pretty clear nothing especially nuclear was happening at this impressive bombing site.

With no blinding white blast, and the explanation about colors of fuel and other explosions I have seen, I would suspect perhaps some aviation fuel exploded, not DU or other radioactive sources.


37 posted on 05/17/2023 2:19:01 AM PDT by gleeaikin (Question authority!)
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To: gleeaikin

I would suspect……
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Much speculation going around, and with Zelensky’s government’s silence ( about everything), the fact the Ukie people in that city are leaving in droves ( evacuating) suggests something ominous was scattered to the winds.

Just another nail in Zelensky’s coffin. Even the Ukie population is starting to wake up.


38 posted on 05/17/2023 3:19:49 AM PDT by delta7
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To: PGR88

I see your point, but wouldn’t that mean Ukrainians put their ammo dumps in hospitals, kindergartens, in shopping malls, etc?


39 posted on 05/17/2023 9:18:53 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: PIF; PGR88

Yes, PGR88 corrected me, those smart Ukrainians put their ammo dumps in hospitals, kindergartens, in shopping malls, etc?


40 posted on 05/17/2023 9:23:58 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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