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
---
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.
...
"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."
---
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.
---
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.
Russia isolated? That is a fantasy!
Except for the US and EU, the rest of the world is conducting business as usual with Russia.
Im still happy he likes and knows how to hold a puppy
Are you serious? Russia manufacturers missiles.
I wish. You and your Zelenski fanboys are like a pack of marauding teenagers gutting a 7-Eleven.
And these lies are never corrected by the people posting them here. Just on to the next lie, keep flooding the zone.
Japan isn’t, Taiwan’s TSCM isn’t, and they make 95% of all the chips used in high-tech devices
and if the sanctions weren’t effective, why did Putin shut off the gas flows on Sept. 1 until they are lifted?
if Russia is willing to lose $10 billion every week until the sanctions stop, the sanctions must be working
Yeah, that was my rhetorical point. Unless one stops Russia's ability to manufacture new missiles it seems a bit unwise to depend on them running out.
Now it all makes sense. That's why the Ukes have been shelling the Donbass all these years; so the children there won't be kidnapped.
So were the missiles Russia launched at Ukraine hypersonic missiles? After all, the “lies” never said that Russia was out of missiles, but rather that it was running low on hypersonic missiles.
It's not really about number of missiles, it's about tonnage of ordnance.
So, let's compare this piddly effort to Linebacker II.
On Day One of Linebacker II, 129 B-52s launched from Andersen and U-Tapao in three massive waves spaced at four-hour intervals. Each B-52 would carry 54,000 pounds (27 tons) of GP bombs. The total tonnage for day one is 3,483 tons of ordnance. These were dropped in and around Hanoi and Haiphong areas (2 cities and not all of North Vietnam).
If the missiles that Russia launched were the Kinzhal missile, then the warhead weight would be approximately 1000 pounds. 100 missiles would equal 50 tons of ordnance or 2 B-52 sorties.
It will take Russia 64 days to equal the tonnage of day 1 of Linebacker II.
Linebacker II lasted 11 days. So, it will take Russia over 23 months, firing 100 Kinzhal missiles per day, to equal the tonnage of Linebacker II.
Russia is not using Bomber aircraft...a clear indication they do not have air supremacy...but that is for discussion at a later time.
>> Now it all makes sense. That’s why the Ukes have been shelling the Donbass all these years; so the children there won’t be kidnapped. <<
In 2019, Zelenskyy defeated Petro Poroshenko in democratic elections.
No children were killed by shelling in the Donbass in 2019 or 2020.
Poroshenko, who had been installed as a result of the Maidan was bitterly unpopular for the conduct of the war, and was beaten by 3-to-1 by Zelenskyy, who represented the concialiarist party. Yuri Boyko, Russia-friendly candidate did far worse still, getting only 11% of the vote.
Russia’s oil exports are doing just fine.
Cutting off the EU is not going to hurt them.
PS: It is $10 billion per month....not week.
Gee, I wondered why ol Moonie would support Moscow....
Agree. And Russia never had soldiers without insignia illegally invading Ukraine. The fact is the Bolshevik Kremlin has lied to the world for over 100 years. Now they lie about Ukraine. Believe Kremlin lies if you wish. This MAGA conservative won’t be.
Agree.
It does seem like there are people who act as if Russia is literally out of missiles.
And it’s pretty funny how these few freeps started in full bore within hours of Russia’s attack. Before the average freeper even knew there was an attack. Almost as if they were agents of Uke Intelligence.
A breakdown from Russia of just what they’d shot would be informative, but probably unwise at this stage of the war. Ukes may be able to provide some information on with what they claim to have been hit. If they claim to have been hit by a bunch of relatively new, high grade stuff as opposed to having been hit by older or repurposed (eg. anti-aircraft missiles repurposed as surface to ground) stuff it may offer clues to the state of Russian stockpiles. But you’d have to consider their claims as potential propaganda.
They have been kidnapping kids as a part of this war? News to me.
Russia seems to be using this war to get rid of their old tanks and missiles. Easier way to save money than dismantling them. And we have to go and clean up their leftovers.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.