Posted on 08/31/2023 2:56:42 AM PDT by EBH
Aug 30 (Reuters) - Russia's military is repelling a drone attack at an airport in the airport in the city of Pskov in western Russia, where four transport aircraft were damaged, officials said early on Wednesday.
"The Ministry of Defence is repelling a drone attack on Pskov airport," Pskov Governor Mikhail Vedernikov wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
According to initial reports, he said, there were no injuries.
Tass news agency, quoting emergency services, said four Il-76 transport aircraft, long the workhorse of the
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Rooters is getting their latest from the Telegram messaging app & right from the mouth of Pskov Governor? COOL!
So how was the attack “repelled” if four military transports were in fact hit and destroyed?
Look up the word repel, while I point and laugh.
Look up the word repel, while I point and laugh. Try not to respond like a 2 year old.
The Antonov transports gallantly repelled the drone attacks on their airbase through their sacrifice.
Much as Breretons B17s repelled the Japanese attack on Clark field.
Better yet...ask how Ukraine launched an attack on Pskov?
Goofy. Repelling an attack doesn't mean you don't take hits in the process. duh
The 76th Guards Air Assault Division, most of which the Russians have desperately deployed to stem Ukraine’s advance in Robotyne, is based in Pskov.
Looks like the rest of them are going to have to walk now.
The default is Ukraine?
Ok..how about NATO? Is that better and more like it?
Day : Russia destroyed all Ukrainian drones in flight.
Day 2: Ukrainian drones only slightly damaged one plane.
Day 3: Ukraine will pay dearly for destroying four planes.
Aug 31, 2023
Update on the conflict in Ukraine for August 31, 2023:
- The Western media is trying to spin Ukrainian gains within the security or “gray zone” ahead of Russia’s first of several defense lines as a “turning point” in the offensive;
- Ukraine’s offensive potential has been exhausted with the West struggling to find arms and ammunition to replace Ukrainian losses;
- The West is even struggling to pull together large numbers of antiquated and inappropriate equipment like the post-WW2 Leopard 1 tank;
- Meanwhile Ukraine continues conducting drone strikes in Russia, achieving questionable PR value and little else;
- A recent Ukrainian drone strike on an airport hosting Il-76 strategic airlift aircraft damaged 2. To put that in context, Russia operates over 100 of these aircraft and has production capacity to build up to 12 annually;
- Ukraine’s sponsors are unable to sustain the conflict “for as long as it takes,” and only for as long as they have arms and ammunition to supply Ukraine in sufficient quantities;
I do like the fog of war.
LOL
Russia’s ever-changing versions of “what really happened”
Is that today’s cut-and-paste Russian propaganda?
you posted the exact same thing 1 minute earlier on a thread 4 posts above ...
and stop calling them “updates”, when they’re really just the same old tired Russian lies
War is the end of Truth. We have Ukraine lies or Russian Lies, take your pick. We will not know the truth till long after the peace is declared and the Victory parties held. The Monuments to the dead are built and marching goose stepping soldiers present wreaths of flowers on to cold stone monuments. Then the real story will be told with more than enough guilt for all sides. Remember—There are no War Crimes because war itself is a crime. Socrates, the wisest of the Ancient Greeks, said: “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
War is itself a crime?
Sorry, your pacifist utopian unicorn fantasy doesn’t work with me.
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