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Ukrainian drone obliterates Russian helicopter as troops offloading on Snake Island
Express UK ^ | 5/8/2022 | CLAIRE ANDERSON

Posted on 05/08/2022 5:44:38 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

Terrifying video footage captured the moment the Ukrainian Bayraktar-TB2 drone annihilated the Russian Mi-8 transport helicopter on Snake Island. In the chilling black and white footage, human figures can be seen leaving the helicopter moments before it was blown up. The video was published by the Operational Command South.

They said: "We cannot stop doing this.

"We are driving the enemy out of every piece of our land, even from a small island, from the sea, and even from the air."

Meanwhile, another Ukrainian drone took out a Russian landing ship near Snake Island which had been supplying Vladimir Putin's troops with anti-aircraft missiles.

Ukraine released a video claiming to have destroyed the large Serna-type Russian ship in an air strike.

Ukrainian official Anton Gerashchenko later said: "Enemy units remaining on Snake Island remain without air cover and will be destroyed and burned out like cockroaches or locusts."

The attack comes just days after Russia lost two fast-attack Raptor crafts just off Snake Island following a devastating Ukrainian drone strike, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claimed.

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


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To: Georgia Girl 2

And just like that anything the western media reports is totally credible.


41 posted on 05/08/2022 6:42:05 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: marcusmaximus

Stop believing the ridiculous propaganda on TV. 😆


42 posted on 05/08/2022 6:45:34 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: JonPreston

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSN6ZoLXEAA_jdE?format=jpg&name=large


43 posted on 05/08/2022 6:47:45 AM PDT by piroque ("When the SHTF I'm gonna hunker down until all those idiots kill each other. " )
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To: DesertRhino
E46-AD525-A1-B4-4-FBB-9-E51-4-F78-E4-A31-F95
Recent image of Ukes attacking and destroying the Kremlin.
44 posted on 05/08/2022 6:55:05 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Think about it…)
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To: piroque

Russians have ‘claimed’ more TB2 shoot downs than have been manufactured.


45 posted on 05/08/2022 7:01:26 AM PDT by Brellium (Why Z? Because someone stole the other half of the swastika.)
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To: NorseViking

Transistria??


46 posted on 05/08/2022 7:04:33 AM PDT by xkaydet65 ( )
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To: marcusmaximus

FYI, the Russians also have drones deployed to the battlefield


47 posted on 05/08/2022 7:13:36 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: marcusmaximus

Isn’t that where the Russians spared the Ukrainians that said “F.U.” And took them POW?

I know war is hell but I wonder if they would have given these Russians a chance to surrender as well?


48 posted on 05/08/2022 7:27:34 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: marcusmaximus

Happy Mother’s Day Comrades.

Your moms will see you soon. All wrapped up in a box.


49 posted on 05/08/2022 7:30:12 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: All

Here is the most recent Russian update which includes additional info on Snake Island

Briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense (08.05.2022)

◽️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine .

💥 During the night, high-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the command post of a mechanized brigade in the Pyatikhatka area of ​​the Kharkov region and the communication center of the military airfield “ Chervonoglinskoye “ in the area of ​​the settlement of Artsyz . Also in the Odessa region, a project 1241 corvette of the Ukrainian Navy was destroyed .

💥 Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 130 military facilities of Ukraine. Among them : three command posts, 123 areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment, two artillery batteries in firing positions and two depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition in the Bakhmut and Krasnopolye regions . As a result of the strikes, up to 420 nationalists were destroyed, 55 units of military equipment were disabled .

💥 During the night, Russian air defense systems destroyed two more Ukrainian Su-24 bombers and one Mi-24 helicopter of the Ukrainian air forces over Zmeiny Island, and a Bayraktar-TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down near the city of Odessa . In total, four Ukrainian aircraft, four helicopters, including three with landing troops on board, three Bayraktar-TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles and one landing assault boat of the Ukrainian Navy were destroyed in the area during the day .

💥 Rocket troops and artillery hit 56 command posts, 32 artillery firing positions, 415 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as two launchers of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems near the village of Korotych , Kharkiv region.

📊In total , since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 156 aircraft, 116 helicopters, 765 unmanned aerial vehicles, 297 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2927 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 335 multiple rocket launchers, 1393 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 2746 units of special military vehicles.

#Ministry of Defense #Russia #Ukraine @mod_russia


50 posted on 05/08/2022 7:34:29 AM PDT by Cathi
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To: JonPreston

God you Putin loving freaks are pathetic.


51 posted on 05/08/2022 7:37:08 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-hit-ukrainian-warship-near-odesa-downed-two-bombers-2022-05-08/

Russia says it hit Ukrainian warship near Odesa, downed two bombers

May 8 (Reuters) - Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday it had destroyed a Ukrainian navy ship near Odesa with a missile strike overnight.

The ministry said its missiles had hit a ‘Project 1241’ corvette, a class of Soviet missile corvettes with a NATO reporting name of Tarantul.

Russia’s air defences also shot down two Ukrainian SU-24 bombers and a Mi-24 helicopter over the Snake island in the Black Sea at night, the ministry said in a statement.

It said a total of four Ukrainian warplanes, four helicopters and an assault boat had been destroyed over the past 24 hours.

Reuters could not independently verify the report and there was no immediate comment from Ukraine.


52 posted on 05/08/2022 7:47:52 AM PDT by Cathi
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To: devane617

It looks like it may have wiped out the ones on the ground too.


53 posted on 05/08/2022 8:05:56 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (If you attack the 2nd Amendment, You attack The Constitution!)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

Hush, Neocon


54 posted on 05/08/2022 8:06:36 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: marcusmaximus

This sort of warfare will make any land-based action impossible without -complete- control of the skies. For now, the defenders have the upper hand. Definitely a good time to be in the drone manufacturing business.

I’m especially interested in terrain-hugging, high-speed, one-time-use drones. Look-down, shoot-down on a three foot object that pops up in the last five seconds will be very, very tough and expensive even for first-world combatants. Maybe there will be missile/drone hybrids.


55 posted on 05/08/2022 8:22:37 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: Nifster

I know right?

I was just providing a possible answer.....didn’t know I walked into a hornets nest. Lol!


56 posted on 05/08/2022 8:40:41 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

God you Putin loving freaks are pathetic.


I feel like I lose brain cells every time I come here these days. The fruits and nuts of Putinlandia are truly the bottom of the barrel. Discourse with them is impossible.


57 posted on 05/08/2022 8:50:35 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: marcusmaximus
How many hundreds of targets did Russia hit yesterday? How many more neo-Nazis were vanquished from the earth?
58 posted on 05/08/2022 8:53:47 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: marcusmaximus

CINO fappin thread...


59 posted on 05/08/2022 8:57:00 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: marcusmaximus

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60 posted on 05/08/2022 9:16:36 AM PDT by sauropod ("We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they are elected. Don’t you?" Why? "It saves time.”)
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