Posted on 10/10/2022 8:53:33 AM PDT by Kazan
Back in March I had warned that Lies Do Not Win Wars. Here is another practical example.
After allegedly having 'run out of missiles' and, more importantly, patience, the leadership of the Russian Federation decided to de-electrify Ukrainian cities with a 'barrage of missile strikes'.
But first came the propaganda blubber:
320 missiles in a day: Russia targets short-range ballistic missiles at Ukraine; what is the result? - WION - Mar 2, 2022
Russia running short on guided missiles, firing indiscriminately - Ukraine - Jerusalem Post - March 17, 2022
Russia Running Out of Precision Munitions in Ukraine War Pentagon Official - US News - Mar 24, 2022
Russia running short of precision missiles, say western officials - Financial Times - Apr 29, 2022
SCORCHED EARTH Now humiliated Putin is running out of MISSILES in desperate bid to defeat Ukraine, UK armed forces chief tells TalkTV - Sun - May 5, 2022
Putin ‘running out of missiles’ amid claims quarter of Russian Army now lost - City A.M. - May 6, 2022
Is Russia running out of missiles? US, Russia send mixed messages - Jerusalem Post - May 16, 2022
Explainer: Is Russia Running Low on Missiles? - Moscow Times - May 17, 2022
Has Russia Run Out of Precision-Guided Missiles? - SOFREP - May 23, 2022
Russia ‘running out’ of precision weapons - UK Defense Journal - Jun 11, 2022
Russia fires five-and-a-half ton Cold War-era missiles designed to destroy aircraft carriers at Ukrainian forces in the Donbas after running out of precision rockets, MoD says - Daily Mail - Jun 12, 2022
Vladimir Putin running short of missiles as Russian forces turn to old weaponry stock - Mirror - Jul 8, 2022 Putin left scratching head as Russia RUNS OUT of missiles to make ground attacks - Express - Jul 23, 2022
Will Russia Run Out of Precision-Guided Munitions? - National Interest - Aug 11, 2022
Russia Has Run Out of Long-Range Missiles to Terrorize Ukraine - !945 - Aug 20, 2022
No more than 45% missiles that Russia had before the war remain Chief Directorate of Intelligence - Ukrainska Pravda - Aug 27, 2022
Russia 'running out of Iskander and Kalibr missiles’ - The New Voice of Ukraine / Yahoo - Aug 27, 2022
Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Claims Russia Is Running Low On Missiles - The Drive - Aug 27, 2022
Russian Federation will run out of shells, artillery and armoured vehicles by year end - Ukrainska Pravda - Aug 31, 2022
Russia Might Run Out of Weapons, Ammunition By End of Year: Report - Newsweek - Aug 31, 2022
Russia Is Running Out of Missiles. That’s Bad News for Ukraine - Defense Post - Sep 1, 2022
Alexander Kovalenko: when Russia will critically run out of missiles - Odessa Journal - Sep 2, 2022
Russia Resorting to Out of Date Missiles as Weapon Stocks Run Low: Ukraine - Newsweek - Sep 4, 2022
Ukraine believes Russia has less than 50 hypersonic missiles left because it can't get the chips needed to make more: report - Business Insider - Sep 6, 2022
Out Of Missiles! Russia Is Left With ‘Limited Stock’ Of Hypersonic Weapons Due To Microchip Shortage – Ukraine - Eurasian Times - Sep 7, 2022
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Then a warning:
'We Haven't Started Yet,' Putin Says in Hawkish Speech on Ukraine Invasion - Haaretz - Jul 7, 2022
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had barely got started in Ukraine and dared the West to try to defeat it on the battlefield, while insisting that Moscow was still open to the idea of peace talks.
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"Today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield. What can you say, let them try," he said. "We have heard many times that the West wants to fight us to the last Ukrainian. This is a tragedy for the Ukrainian people, but it seems that everything is heading towards this."
... "Everyone should know that, by and large, we haven't started anything yet in earnest," he added. "At the same time, we don't reject peace talks. But those who reject them should know that the further it goes, the harder it will be for them to negotiate with us."
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Total disregard:
U.S. Believes Ukrainians Were Behind an Assassination in Russia - NY Times - Oct 5, 2020
American officials said they were not aware of the plan ahead of time for the attack that killed Daria Dugina and that they had admonished Ukraine over it.
UN: Ukraine nuclear power plant loses external power link - ABC News - Oct 8, 2022
The U.N. nuclear watchdog says that Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, has lost its last remaining external power source as a result of renewed shelling and is now relying on emergency diesel generators
Ukraine unveils stamps celebrating Kerch bridge explosion - hours after the attack - Telegraph - Oct 8, 2022 Timing of the Post Office announcement, just hours after the Crimea bridge was destroyed, raises questions about the nature of the damage
Syricide @Syricide - 8:33 UTC · 10 Oct 2022 #Kiev yesterday.
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Consequences:
Russia Unleashes Biggest Barrage of Strikes on Ukraine Since Invasion - WSJ - Oct 10, 2022
Cities throughout Ukraine, including Kyiv, are bombarded after Putin slams Ukraine over Crimea bridge blast
KYIV, Ukraine—Russia carried out waves of strikes on several Ukrainian cities including the capital in the broadest and most intense onslaught since the start of the invasion, after President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of a “terrorist attack” on a critical bridge connecting Russia’s mainland to the occupied Crimean Peninsula.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had carried out dozens of strikes using missiles as well as Iranian-made drones to target civilian and power infrastructure. “They want panic and chaos,” he said. “They want to destroy our energy system.”
Ukraine "under missile attack" as explosions rock Kyiv and other cities - CBSNews - Oct 10, 2022
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the president's office, said on social media Monday that, "Ukraine is under missile attack. There is information about strikes in many cities of our country."
General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said on Twitter that Russia had launched 75 missiles at Ukraine but that "41 of them were neutralized by our air defence."
Zelenskyy later emerged onto a street in Kyiv to record a selfie video with a message to his people and the world, denouncing Russia for the barrage of missiles which he said had targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure, and its civilians.
Kiev, Lviv, Karkov, Dnipropetrovsk, Krivoy Rog all report damage to their electricity infrastructure.
Or the nursery ward of a children's hospital
or the baby-milk factory
Or the kindergarten
Or the shelter for homeless puppies.
No doubt your list of targets will be endless.
Dumb missiles....If Russia really hit Zelensky’s office, then they were probably aiming at a nearby hospital or convalescent home or maybe an elementary school.
And neither will those missiles. They'll temporarily increase the misery of Ukrainian civilians, but the only long-lasting effect will be to make the Ukrainians hate Russia even more.
So if that was what Putin was going for, he likely achieved it.
Well if they run out they can always drag out a could of rusty old nukes and find out if they work. Wonder if they will give them a good paint job before using them.
I assume everything in the news about this thing is a lie. I think you’d be more accurate if you assumed the opposite of what they were telling you was true.
Kranky Klown you did not mention me.
Perhaps. But hardware corrodes, rots, and/or gets stolen if not properly maintained and secured. So most of the Soviet era stuff they had stored somewhere is likely inoperable/useless.
Billmon - remembering a great blogger
Another blog now serves as base for Billmon's followers: Moon of Alabama
Ukies are the braves and warriors... all other pay cash.
It’s more of the same from an impotent Putin. He just keeps making a bigger and bigger mess while begging the west to force Ukraine to surrender.
You commenting online about this is fine. Free country and all that. The problem is more that decision makers in Ukraine seem to be making decisions based on this information. If they attacked Russian civilian infrastructure (and now Belarus) eith the assumption that there would be no response because Russia is out of missiles that’s completely irresponsible. They didnt seem successful in defense against their attack on a few bridges. That’s poor planning. If you’re going to attack you have to be prepared for the response. People are actually depending on you.
Putin has cancer. No, he’s dead. No his generals hate him. His people hate him too. Ukraine wins every battle. Russia is evil and Ukraine is good. Let’s give them the whole US treasury and see where the money goes...
The Ukey kooks will be here with their multiple accounts cheerleading every day for that dancing maniac and Biden. And they just use projection against anyone who disagrees with them like the other Alinsky disciples.
Ukrainians have vast experience with the Russian way of war and its fundamentally criminal nature. Whether that be carpet bombing civilian centers with rocket artillery or genocidally kidnapping thousands of Ukrainian children. That, my FRiend, is why they fight.
You are just wrong. They are not morons -- they are gullible fools that are being duped and led down the path by the deep state/CIA/MSM. The same people who told us....
-There was absolutely no fraud in the Trump 2020 election
-The Russians colluded with Trump
-To shut down the economy for two weeks to flatten the curve
-The covid vaccines are absolutely safe and totally effective
-Take the vax shot and you will not get COVID
-Absolutely nothing to see on Hunter's laptop
That's just the shortlist.
And now we hear how Russia is losing the war, running out of missiles, a general a day is killed, etc. Did I mention that Putin is dying? All of this while Russia just took over the 20+% of Ukraine they captured in battle while devastating the Ukrainian Nazis and other soldiers.
Well, maybe you are right. Perhaps they are both fools and morons!
Oh please, nobody in the Ukrainian military is making complex strategy decisions based on what Freepers in their pajamas are saying
“Russia is running out of missiles” is a logical conclusion ... Russia used a lot, they require high-tech electronics to make, and Russia is now isolated from those crucial parts by sanctions
Ukraine is quite capable of drawing those conclusions by themselves, they don’t need us
we are all just observers, commenting
Oh, the use of the Shahed 136 loitering drone, essentially a modern version of the V-1 “buzz bomb” but with a distinctly noisy engine?
Who has been even supplying Russia with missiles in the first place? How did they ever get their hands on missiles?
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