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Russian forces destroy over 8,000 military drones in Ukraine operation
Tass | October 18, 2023 | Staff

Posted on 10/18/2023 1:54:42 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

Russian forces have destroyed over 8,000 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.

"In all, the following targets have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation: 491 aircraft, 251 helicopters, 8,004 unmanned aerial vehicles, 441 surface-to-air missile systems, 12,746 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,163 multiple rocket launchers, 6,810 field artillery guns and mortars and 14,419 special military motor vehicles," the ministry said in a statement. Russian forces wipe out Ukrainian aircraft ammo depot in Dnepropetrovsk Region

Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian air-launched ammunition depot in the Dnepropetrovsk Region over the past day, the ministry reported.

"A depot storing the Ukrainian Air Force’s air-launched ammunition was obliterated at the Lozovoye airfield in the Dnepropetrovsk Region. Near the settlements of Serebryanka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Malinovka in the Zaporozhye Region, command and observation posts of the Ukrainian army’s 67th mechanized brigade and 102nd territorial defense brigade were eliminated," the ministry said.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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Gee, I guess the Ukraine is no longer important to the Prog Socialist Western Media, I couldn't find a single Uke Nazi triumph reported there.

Fortunately, Tass had one single report!

1 posted on 10/18/2023 1:54:42 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Agree more Biden cover up for squandering tax dollars at a high rate of speed par.


2 posted on 10/18/2023 1:57:09 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Navy Patriot

Russia has destroyed a lot of drones. True.

The good news is most of the drones were destroyed by impacting a Ruzzian target.


3 posted on 10/18/2023 1:58:19 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Navy Patriot
OUCH! That's gonna leave a mark!

Ukraine is going to have to learn that when it comes to Deep State belligerents,
they'll have to wait until Hamas gets its turn at the feed trough.

4 posted on 10/18/2023 1:59:35 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Lord, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

+1

Competition at the feed trough on the Deep State Ranch.


5 posted on 10/18/2023 2:04:36 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Navy Patriot

I’m still wondering why the Russians haven’t just jammed the signals on these things. I know my ship could easily have done it with our ancient SLQ-32...and I’m sure that the Russian equivalent of an AWACs could do the same.


6 posted on 10/18/2023 2:05:27 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: Navy Patriot

And we’re supposed to believe Tass?


7 posted on 10/18/2023 2:06:52 PM PDT by rexthecat
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To: MeganC
The good news is most of the drones were destroyed by impacting a Ruzzian target.

Citation?

8 posted on 10/18/2023 2:07:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Pretty much started going dark a couple of days before the Hamas attack. WH proposed a “one and done” 100 billion and the money ends. Seems the WH feels the war is lost and Ukraine can’t win. After the one and done announcement, nothing about Ukraine


9 posted on 10/18/2023 2:35:31 PM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: Navy Patriot
New hoho anthem...
10 posted on 10/18/2023 2:40:59 PM PDT by ganeemead ( )
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To: Navy Patriot

Ukrainian drones are DJI Mavic 4. They cost about $750.

And many of them are used as kamakazi drones.

8,000 a drop in the bucket.


11 posted on 10/18/2023 2:41:05 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: rexthecat

You’ll find more truth there than at Western press outlets, our Pentagon or White House. Trans tyranny, all wokeness, new green deal, American elections, DC oligarchs, Trump, WEF, Saddam’s yellow cake, UKRAINE, etc. ,etc., etc.


12 posted on 10/18/2023 2:41:39 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Navy Patriot

And how many Russian drones have been destroyed?


13 posted on 10/18/2023 2:44:00 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius

A Chechen unit and a Russian unit got into a terrible brawl. The reason? The Chechens claimed that Muslims were bigger liars than Russians.


14 posted on 10/18/2023 2:51:19 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=ukraine+drones+destroyed+russian+tanks+today


15 posted on 10/18/2023 2:51:49 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Navy Patriot

The Soviet man-in-the-street used to say: “There is no truth in Pravda, and no news in Tass”. Hasn’t changed. Why would it? The Soviet government collapsed, but Muskovy is still a dictatorship, and the people in charge in Soviet times are still in charge today. Read Putin’s CV.


16 posted on 10/18/2023 2:57:48 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: MeganC

videos are not citations. they could be videos of anything and you pretend they prove your propaganda.


17 posted on 10/18/2023 3:12:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Our resident female Ukraine Propaganda Minister will not be happy with this report. Every night she posts articles and videos about Ukraine victory here,
Ukraine victory there…Ukraine victories everywhere.


18 posted on 10/18/2023 3:15:32 PM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: tennmountainman

Why do you have to lower yourself to personal attacks?


19 posted on 10/18/2023 3:16:35 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Navy Patriot
"In all, the following targets have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation: 491 aircraft..."

Tass must be counting the Russian aircraft that were destroyed along with whatever Ukrainian aircraft have been lost in the war.

Ukraine did not have that many airplanes before the war started, and they have never had that many since the war started.

So when you read the numbers remember that they probably include the Russian losses too.

20 posted on 10/18/2023 3:35:15 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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