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Russia repeatedly bombed itself, intelligence report finds
The Telegraph ^ | 1st July 2024

Posted on 07/01/2024 6:49:42 AM PDT by Cronos

Russia dropped dozens of its glide bombs on its own territory between April 2023 to April 2024, an intercepted internal document found.

At least 38 of the munitions fell on the Belgorod region close to Ukraine, according to The Washington Post, which cited bomb cleanup and evacuation documents obtained by Ukrainian intelligence.

The majority of bombs, largely undetonated, were found by civilians in areas surrounding the city. Four bombs have hit the city of Belgorod itself.

The first recorded accidental bomb drop fell on a central street in Belgorod in April 2023, creating a 65ft crater, shattering windows and blowing up parked cars. The detonation happened at night and no casualties were reported.

Moscow has been making extensive use of glide bombs in recent months, increasingly relying on them to batter Ukrainian cities and drive territorial advances.

..Glide bombs are Soviet-era heavy munitions retrofitted with guidance systems and launched from an aircraft flying out of range of air defences with a payload of up to 1.5 tonnes.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: ionacleave; oops; oopskey; oopski; russia; zeeperporn; zelenskyqs
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To: Red Badger

It wasn’t even a whole missile — just a booster that broke loose from the static test platform!


41 posted on 07/01/2024 10:02:46 PM PDT by umbagi (Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. [Twain])
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To: Cronos

Putin’s a chip off the old Stalin block isn’t he?


42 posted on 07/01/2024 10:03:58 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: hardspunned

Crimea was :
Tatar for 500 years from 1239 to 1783
Tsardom of Russia for 134 years from 1783 to 1917

NOTE that the USSR explicitly said that it was NOT a successor state to the Tsardom of Russia. Hence it was a completely separate entity.
The Russian federation said that it was/is a successor state to the USSR, so it is NOT a successor state to the Tsardom of Russia.

A separate SSR for 33 years from 1922 to 1945
Ukrainian for 60 years from 1954 to 2014
Russian Federation for 10 years

Hence it has been Ukrainian for the second longest after it has been Tatar Khanate.

the least amount of time it has been Russian


44 posted on 07/02/2024 1:47:10 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Kazan

Biden is a loser.

Putin doesn’t care about Muscowy - he’s lost men, materiel, prestige etc.

he just cares about his ego - hubris


45 posted on 07/02/2024 2:20:55 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Mount Athos
You’re wrong about the tatars, the greeks were there many centuries longer

Not really -- the "greeks" until 1821 were really many different nations: and that was highly the case before the Roman empire: the Acheans, Ionians etc. competed and spoke at times mutually incomprehensible languages

Furthermore, the various Hellenes established CITIES on the Taurian peninsula: Sevastopol was founded by Dorians from Heracles Pontica, Theodosia and Panticapaeum were established by Milesians

There was a Kingdom of the Bosporus which was basically an overlord of the independent Greek city states

It was not "Greek"

46 posted on 07/02/2024 2:30:49 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Crimea was part of the Tsardom of Russia from 1783 to 1917 — check the historical facts.

The USSR explicitly said it was not a successor state to the Tsardom.
The Russian Federation said that it WAS a successor state to the USSR, so it was NOT a successor state to the Tsardom of Russia

It was a separate Soviet Socialist republic from 1922 to 1945

Crimea was part of Russia from 1945 to 1954 — only 9 years.

Crimea was part of Ukraine from 1954 to 2014 — 60 years.


47 posted on 07/02/2024 2:36:01 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: wildcard_redneck
It is nonsensical to argue about the internal political division of territories within the Soviet Union because the Soviet Union was Russia.

Nope - not by it's own definition - the Soviet union was a "union of soviet socialist republics" -- this included the Russian SSR, the Ukrainian SSR, the Kazakh SSR

unless you are now claiming that Latvia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan etc. should be part of the Russian federation - even that statement of you flies against the Soviet facts

48 posted on 07/02/2024 2:44:11 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Cronos

Neocons will either believe anything or are lying propagandists. The Russians are bombing themselves and Biden has never been more fit, this is the best Biden evah! Stupid psychopaths.


49 posted on 07/02/2024 5:23:34 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Neocons like you don’t believe history that the Russian federation declared itself a successor state to the USSR but the USSR said it was not a successor state to the Russian Tsardom.

Net net, Crimea before 2014 was only part of Russia from 1945 to 1954


50 posted on 07/02/2024 7:14:43 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Cronos

What? That is some circular logic you are using. Regardless of your moronic response, Russia was the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union was Russia and you just sound like an idiot to quibble about it.


51 posted on 07/02/2024 7:27:56 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: MeanWestTexan
"A victory (however defined) will be a loss for Russia at this point."

Yes, winning is losing and Biden is as sharp as evah!

52 posted on 07/02/2024 7:30:04 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Have you ever read a book?

The Soviet UNION was a UNION of Soviet Socialist Republics like the Russian SSR, the Ukrainian SSR, the Estonian SSR.

Estonia is not Russia no matter what you Neocoms say


53 posted on 07/02/2024 7:31:39 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: adorno

54 posted on 07/02/2024 7:32:38 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Cronos
Why did you bring Estonia into the argument about the Ukraine? It is too early to be drinking son.
55 posted on 07/02/2024 7:37:15 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Baghdad Bob, aka: Karine Jean-Pierre

Must’ve gotten a sex change operation along the way...

but, Baghdad Bob’s brain was removed from his head and split among the left-wing media’s talking heads. Many thousands of Baghdad Bobs in the media now.


56 posted on 07/02/2024 7:38:46 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: subterfuge

I am one, so take a breath Francis


57 posted on 07/02/2024 8:02:42 AM PDT by pburgh01
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To: Cronos
Putin is and has always had the support of the Russian public because their quality of life has dramatically improved during his tenure.

And, if there is criticism of him over this war, it's because he's been too restrained.

Blind hatred of your "enemy" leads to bad and reckless decisions.

58 posted on 07/02/2024 8:24:17 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: wildcard_redneck

You know, it’s not possible to think Putin, Zelinski, and Biden are all complete idiots and crooks.


59 posted on 07/02/2024 8:24:18 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Sorry, it “is” possible.


60 posted on 07/02/2024 11:59:13 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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