Posted on 12/05/2022 2:58:50 AM PST by marcusmaximus
A large explosion was reported to have taken place during the morning of December 5, 2022, at Engels-2, an air base used by Russia for deploying strategic bombers to perform cruise missile attacks on Ukraine. Around the same time, an explosion happened at Dyagilevo, another strategic bomber base in Ryazan region.
Reports published to Russian social media channels claim the explosion at Engels was a drone attack and at least two aircraft were damaged.
Telegram channel “Mobilizatsiya. Volgogradskaya Oblast,” which reports local news, posted a short video which appears to have been filmed by a CCTV camera. A large explosion can be seen in the footage.
Another Russian Telegram channel, Baza, which regularly posts insider information about the country’s government and military, reported that a flying object – presumably a drone – crashed into the base’s runway, damaging two aircraft and injuring two people.
Local news outlet Saratov24 reported that residents of the nearby towns Engels and Saratov heard a loud explosion coming from the direction of the airbase. Several videos of the explosion have been posted on social media, Saratov24 claims.
The second explosion reported at Dyagilevo was caused by a fuel truck, according to the Russian state news agency TASS. Another news agency, RIA Novosti, said two people died and six were injured in the explosion.
The reports do not indicate what caused the fuel truck to explode. However, several Russian military Telegram channels claim both attacks were synchronized acts of sabotage.
Footage claiming to show the explosion at Dyagilevo has also been published online.
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So, it begins
Escalation is not a good thing. Russian retaliation could raise the ante further. Did Zelensky do this without consulting his allies?
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Overnight Aerial alerts all over Ukraine- another massive attack from Russian cruise missiles- unstoppable.Over 14 regions being hammered. See Telegram for actual video and reports.
Ashame western media is not reporting the horrendous hammering……only “ send more money”…..
….from Odessa to Kiev to Kremenchy to Zaporozhyna to Kharkov….Not a shot from Ukie air defenses….Vlad tightens the screws and nothing the West can do.
Well Ukie war cheerleaders, how’s Biden’s war going for you?
They keep dropping the ciggies and causing accidents.
First the Moskva
Then the Russian military bases all near Ukraine
and now this. tsk, tsk... smokers....
No Ukrainians involved ;-P
you, kabar, call this escalation?
as marcus wrote Engels-2 is a strategic bomber base located in the Saratov region. There have been numerous reports of the base serving as one of the main locations for launching cruise missile attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure.
Dyagilevo is also a strategic bomber base. Located not far from Moscow, it is the main training center for Russia’s strategic bomber crews.
Were you decrying Putin for his escalation when he started bombing Ukrainian civilian infrastructure?
Absolutely. Wisely, Zelensky is keeping quiet about any Ukrainian involvement lest a de facto NATO surrogate be seen to have attacked Russia.
So who is Ukraine in this analogy? The US? We spent trillions of dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan along with tens of thousands of dead and wounded. We fled Afghanistan in defeat with the Taliban and other terrorists in control of the country.
We made the mistake of mission creep that got us into the nation-building business that bogged us down for 20 years. Almost immediately afterwards, we are deeply involved in Ukraine with no end in sight. Our investment is approaching $100 billion with much more to come.
We are the world’s biggest debtor nation. We must borrow the money to fight these endless wars. Our annual debt servicing costs are $400 billion a year. They will rise to a trillion dollars a year by the end of the decade, more than the current defense budget. And we have the looming crisis of our $100 trillion unfunded liabilities of SS and Medicare. The Medicare Trust Fund is exhausted in 2028. Is Ukraine our hill to die on?
We’re you decrying the US/NATO when it bombed Serbian infrastructure?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/belgrade052599.htm
Right on. Does anyone have confidence in the Biden foreign policy team of Blinken, Sullivan, Austin, and Milley? The Biden Crime Family is compromised. China, the real threat, is ignored as our woke military focuses on climate change and white rage. Recruitment and retention woes is the result.
Ukraine is sapping our strength with war reserves being drained that will take years to replenish. Zelensky wants direct NATO involvement. As his desperation grows, the more chances he will take to draw us in further to this conflict, which doesn’t involve our strategic national interests.
Ukraine is sapping our strength with war reserves being drained that will take years to replenish.
Which benefits China.
And China is Joe’s boss.
Looks more Like MI6 or CIA did the deed with a Ukraine cover. They couldn’t have done this without help. This is not cool and will simple gain more public support for Putin at home. If The Russian People feel threatened they will unify around the government. Look to see more retaliation in a day or so. This propaganda raid will fuel the Rah-rah Ukraine can not lose people but will it cause the Russians to desert Putin?
Although the situation may have changed the Google maps images also showed 6 Tu-160 Blackjack bombers at the airfield (similar to B-1 Lancers). The airfield is located about 3 miles east of downtown Engels’k.
We have a $31 trillion national debt. When Reagan left office in January 1989, the national debt was $2.8 trillion. We can’t keep spending. We are broke.
The Russians are not a threat to NATO like the Soviets were. Russia is a country of 150 million with a GDP that is dwarfed by the EU and the US. Our aid to Ukraine this year is more than the annual Russian defense budget.
Our investment to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan had subsequent consequences. It helped spawn the creation of AQ that led to 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc.
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