Posted on 06/25/2024 7:19:55 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
How many Ukrainian civilians have been killed by missiles, drones and artillery fired from the Crimean peninsula? How many of those munitions were made in Iran or North Korea?
It is highly doubtful that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would use its limited ATACMS munitions to attack non-military targets — particularly as at no point during the war up to now has Ukraine intentionally targeted Russian civilians.
Rather, it is more likely that the Russian beachgoers were killed not by ATACMS or other US-made weapons, but by Russian military 9M330 air defense missiles fired by Moscow’s TOR-M2 anti-aircraft platform.
Early open-source images of the weapons’ remains — as yet unconfirmed — appear to suggest this was the case in Sevastopol.
Friendly fire happens in combat, and the Russian military has a track record of inadvertently striking their own targets, even shooting down their own aircraft — as in April, for example, when Putin’s air force released a guided medium-range X-59 tactical missile over Belgorod, Russia.
According to Russian sources on Telegram, 21 known such friendly fire incidents were tallied in March and April alone.
Putin knows he desperately needs to change the equation, and change it fast. His recent travels to North Korea and Vietnam, creating additional distractions in South Korea and the Sea of Japan for Washington, was one way.
Blaming the United States for the blasts in Sevastopol is just the latest.
Nuclear bluffs, threats on Western capitals and a dubious peace offer are all obvious tells Putin knows he is holding a losing hand — and yet, Biden and his national security team keep responding as if Moscow is holding four aces...
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Boy. This is a pantload, even for the msm.
BTW there is video now of the submunitions hitting the beach and the water. A munitions expert should be able to see if there is a typical cluster munition pattern.
SPAM in your can?
Probably crappy Russian AA missiles
Remember, Russia has a long history of blaming others for its own mistakes
e.g., the Buk AA shootdown of that passenger jet in 2014 by Russian separatists
The Canuck is a good laugh.
That picture is perfect
9M330 air defense missile has a 30lb warhead.
Wound over 100 people on a beach with that, and kill four.
Laughable BS proffered by fools.
Everyone here thinks you’re a clown.
“Putin knows he desperately needs to change the equation, and change it fast. His recent travels to North Korea and Vietnam, creating additional distractions in South Korea and the Sea of Japan for Washington, was one way.”
N Korea is currently pooty’s one friend, coz he pays him.
Meanwhile China is re-populating Siberia, lol
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Yep, nearly 3 months ago, the yapping foreigner poked the Robinsons and announced to them and the rest of the World that he was leaving FR because it wasn’t fun anymore.
But sadly for us, he lied.
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182 posted on 4/9/2024, 8:14:06 PM by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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So, Ukraine, with our help and missiles, targets civilians on a beach in Crimea and it’s all Putin’s fault! Just like when Russia blew up its own Nord Stream pipelines!
Thanks! Agree totally!
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