Posted on 03/29/2024 5:36:59 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
Ukrainian air defenders on Friday morning had fought a tough overnight battle against nearly a hundred missiles and drones launched by Russia at targets across the country, shooting down the bulk of the Kremlin’s strike packages, but by their own reckoning failing to intercept any of Moscow’s ballistic missiles.
According to Ukrainian military announcements, the Russian Federation overnight from Thursday to Friday launched 99 long-range weapons at Ukraine. An estimated 58-60 were propeller-driven, Iranian-exported Shahed drones. Based on open-source air defense reports reviewed by Kyiv Post, Russian strike planners used the Shahed drones to probe and where possible spread thin Ukrainian air defenses.
The backbone of Moscow’s assault was 21 (or 23) X-101/X-555 cruise missiles and a smaller number of high-tech X-59 cruise missiles dropped by Tu-95MC turboprop bombers – the well-known Bear bomber from the Soviet era – flying over the Caspian Sea. The Ukrainians appear to have tracked the aircraft from takeoff deep inside Russia to their launch point, and the missiles’ flight across two-thirds of Ukraine. About half of the missiles appear to have been aimed at Ukrainian power grid infrastructure in the south, and the other half at power grid infrastructure in the east.
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Oh come on, everybody knows that Ukraine detests the old Nazi ways in Ukraine. All of the BBC video investigations are just all Russian propaganda!
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You're seriously not claiming that almost everything coming out of Ukraine is Baghdad Bob-level propaganda, are you?
It's time the Russians turned the lights out permanently in Kharkiv, emptied it out and took it over.
Great point! 😂
Pretty good picture quality for a hundred years old, huh? It doesn't look like Max is buying the Neo's bs.
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And that guy honored with applause in the Canadian parliament was just a mirage.
Yaroslav Hunka “Burning Love”...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaroslav_Hunka_scandal
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Are your dues to the Eurasia Party up to date, Boris?
Get off of seeing Zelensky play the piano with his penis, Adolf?
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