Posted on 05/18/2025 11:44:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The bombardment, which Ukrainian officials said mostly targeted Kyiv, came just before President Trump was expected to talk with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
Russia targeted Ukraine with one of its largest drone bombardments of the war on Sunday, with an estimated 273 exploding drones and decoys recorded in the skies across the country.
The barrage, which killed a woman and injured several others, appeared designed as a show of force just a day before President Trump is expected to talk with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in an attempt to get an agreement on a cease-fire. Mr. Putin has dragged his feet on agreeing to any temporary truce, adding preconditions that he knows Ukraine will not accept.
Mr. Trump said on Saturday that he would also call President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who has agreed to an unconditional and immediate cease-fire, as well as the leaders of the NATO alliance.
Much of the latest drone barrage was directed at Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said, and antiaircraft fire lit up the skies over the capital as air defense teams scrambled to counter the assault. Over the course of some nine hours, the Ukrainian Air Force said, it intercepted 88 drones, while 128 others vanished from radars.
A 28-year-old woman in the capital region was killed and three more people were injured, including a 4-year-old child. While the impact of the barrage appears to have been limited, it was part of a pattern of escalating aerial bombardments, with the swarms growing larger the longer the war has raged.
It is now common for waves of more than 100 drones to attack towns and cities several times a week. On Feb. 23, the Ukrainian Air Force recorded 263 drones in the skies.
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If no peace is found, you can make book that the US will continue supporting the Ukes.
This might take the form of up to millions of drones, including longer range ones and thermobaric fuel-air bombs and the means to deliver them into Russia. Escalation risk be damned, you can see it coming. A blind man could see it coming. Hang on to your hats.
Putin needn’t worry. The world is already aware of the effectiveness of his military.
Gee Whiz, fewer Uke Nazis to Launder Taxpayer Money.
What will we do?
Undoubtedly. The homo nazi regimes across the world are going to unconditionally surrender and there will be peace.
“The barrage, which killed a woman and injured several others, appeared designed as a show of force”
That’s it. Vlad has won. Now he will bring the liberty back to the human kind.
“ If no peace is found, you can make book that the US will continue supporting the Ukes.”
If no peace is found, I’m betting one of the Ukes nukes that were supposedly removed in the 90’s will turn up.
“I’m betting one of the Ukes nukes that were supposedly removed in the 90’s will turn up.”
Those were always Soviet nukes, the locals never had the codes nor the firing links to make them work. Yes I am aware you can rebuild a weapon to work. This is no small undertaking it is equal to building the weapon from.scratch the first time. You would have to pour,cast,machine new HE and more importantly the HE lenses for the triggers that alone is a nation state level technical operation. Then you would need nanosecond precision detonators for all those lenses, then you need a steady source of tritium for the fusion spark plugs as there is a 13 year half life of tritium. Without that critical tritium your fission trigger , fizzles and your second stage also cannot go thermonuclear. None of those things the Uke were or are capable of today. They would be better off just buying from Pakistan or N.Korea functional units. Just having the materials from the 1980s is not the same as a functional weapon.
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