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Scores of Russian Sailors MIA After Crimea Landing Ship Blast: Report
Newsweek ^ | Dec. 27, 2023 | Ellie Cook

Posted on 12/27/2023 5:44:04 AM PST by canuck_conservative

A total of 77 sailors were on board the large landing ship in the eastern Crimean port of Feodosia when it was targeted by cruise missiles, Russian-language Telegram channel Astra reported. Of these, 33 are missing and 23 people were wounded, with one person killed in the strikes, Astra reported on early on Wednesday...

Using Western-supplied cruise missiles and different types of drones, Kyiv has repeatedly targeted Moscow's naval assets, managing to sink the flagship Moskva in April 2022 and taking out a Russian submarine in September 2023.

During the course of the all-out war in the country, Kyiv has damaged a number of Moscow's landing ships, such as the Minsk, the Saratov and the Olenegorsky Gornyak.

Kyiv's success in denting the Black Sea fleet is an embarrassment and an operational blow to Russia. In the wake of the attack, Britain's defense minister, Grant Shapps, said the Kremlin has lost 20 percent of its Black Sea fleet in the past four months, adding: "Russia's dominance in the Black Sea is now challenged."

Ukraine used cruise missiles to attack the landing ship at around 2:30 a.m. local time (7:30 p.m. ET) on Tuesday, Kyiv's air force said in a statement. Ukrainian officials suggested Western-supplied air-launched Storm Shadow and SCALP missiles were used in Tuesday's attack.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: destroyed; explosion; putinsblunder; sailorsmissing
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To: ansel12

That’s because you’re either THAT dense or you’re back to trying to waste people’s time again. Most likely both. Waste someone else’s.


21 posted on 12/27/2023 7:33:23 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

Wasting time would be your posts and you’re trying to blow off the thread topic by pretending that nothing unusual is happening to Russia’s Navy that isn’t the same for the American Navy.


22 posted on 12/27/2023 7:37:02 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: canuck_conservative

I am sure the russian sailors are all on a nice vacation at a beach resort in Crimea.


23 posted on 12/27/2023 7:46:05 AM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: JonPreston

I’m sorry for your losses comrade. What stage of grief are you in?


24 posted on 12/27/2023 7:47:08 AM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: canuck_conservative

Judging from the size of that blast I’m guessing there isn’t anything left of them. I heard that the roster on that ship included 180-some men. I suspect they are understating the death toll.


25 posted on 12/27/2023 8:21:40 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: canuck_conservative

Russia’s war is really not going well for them.


26 posted on 12/27/2023 8:23:23 AM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: hardspunned

Wait till an American ship is hit, and we have bodies coming home. The foes only need to get lucky once. Will Biden look at his watch when the flag draped coffins roll off the big plane? My heart goes out to the parents, mothers, wives of the dead sailors—as it does to the Ukrainians soldiers holding the line. Peace is the best answer.


27 posted on 12/27/2023 8:33:06 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: canuck_conservative
Meanwhile, the Russian military continues to gobble up ground on the actual battlefield.

Huge Russian Breakthrough Near Robotyne l Surprise Russian Success At Robotyne Front

28 posted on 12/27/2023 9:04:42 AM PST by Kazan
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To: canuck_conservative

The TRUTH is that the ship was carrying loads of drones,

I don’t doubt the the ship was carrying explosive materials, but I question why the drones would be equipped with the bombs for transport. I would think those would be installed just prior to the drones being sent to their target.


29 posted on 12/27/2023 10:22:20 AM PST by Steven Scharf
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To: canuck_conservative
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2023/12/26/russia-heading-to-victory-in-ukraine-says-former-uk-senior-officer/

In a wide-ranging interview, Gen Sir Richard Barrons argued that Ukraine’s military “has got nothing left in the locker right now” after its gruelling summer counter-offensive.

“The initiative in this war is unequivocally transferring to Russia and that is not the situation we expected at the start of this year but it’s an honest appraisal of where we are,” said Gen Barrons.

“That's a combination of the failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive to deliver even its minimum objectives,” said Gen Barrons. “Then the major wobble in US politics and now EU politics on financial support to Ukraine. The reason he's much more confident is because he's not losing this war.”

“Putin will be rubbing his hands with glee at the distraction of Gaza particularly with artillery ammunition that was going to go to Ukraine now being fired at Palestinians,” said the veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

30 posted on 12/27/2023 12:21:55 PM PST by Kazan
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To: canuck_conservative

It’s going to be pleasure watching you squirm while the Russians take more and more land in Ukraine.


31 posted on 12/27/2023 12:22:31 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Kazan

Putin will find some way to screw it up, I have faith, just look at this whole invasion ... supposed to be over in a month, lol

Some leaders have luck in war, some don’t ... Putin is in the second category


32 posted on 12/27/2023 12:29:38 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - keeping Europe free of Russian invaders for 74 years - you're welcome!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade; All

US ships are at risk, but I suspect the preferred target will be a UK ship.

UK Storm Shadows (which Russia believes operated by UK crews) were responsible for both the Moskva and this latest amphibious assault ship.

So a Houthi attack on a UK ship would be payback via proxies, with less escalation risk that going after, say, a US carrier.


33 posted on 12/27/2023 12:33:54 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: hardspunned
Naval warfare has changed.

Naval warfare has ended. Satellites, hypersonic weapons, and drones have rendered surface fleets obsolete as surely as Billy Mitchell's bombers did to the battleship a century ago. But the Navy brass and the defense contractors won't hear it, so more money will need to be wasted before a final set of tragedies prove the point conclusively.

34 posted on 12/27/2023 12:38:19 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Kazan
the Russian military continues to gobble up ground

LOL. The Russian military spends thousands of lives and hundreds of armored vehicles to capture a destroyed village and move the front line by 1/2 mile.

That's not "gobbling" that's more like nibbling at a very high cost.

35 posted on 12/27/2023 5:25:14 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: Kazan
Isn't that the area where the Russians just murdered 3 Ukrainian POWs?

Between Verbove and Robotyne

36 posted on 12/27/2023 6:20:53 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing
The Russian military spends thousands of lives and hundreds of armored vehicles to capture a destroyed village

Ukraine and the Biden regime make up numbers and you believe and repeat them.

You're brainless.

Get this through your skull -- EVERY inch of annexed territory will remain part of the Russian Federation. And, there isn't a thing you or anyone else can do about it.

Further, if Ukraine doesn't surrender, the Russians will keep going all the way to the Dnieper river.

37 posted on 12/27/2023 6:31:19 PM PST by Kazan
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To: hardspunned

Sure, but you have to admit it would be fun to watch.


38 posted on 12/29/2023 7:25:16 AM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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