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Ukraine appears to expose Russian air defence gaps with long-range strikes
Reuters ^ | December 6, 2022 | Pavel Polityuk and Sergiy Chalyi

Posted on 12/06/2022 7:17:43 AM PST by Timber Rattler

A third Russian airfield was ablaze on Tuesday from a drone strike, a day after Ukraine demonstrated an apparent new ability to penetrate hundreds of kilometers deep into Russian air space with attacks on two Russian air bases.

Officials in the Russian city of Kursk, located close to Ukraine, released pictures of black smoke above an airfield in the early morning hours of Tuesday after the latest strike. The governor said an oil storage tank there had been set ablaze but there were no casualties.

It came a day after Russia confirmed it had been hit hundreds of kilometers from Ukraine by what it said were Soviet-era drones - at Engels air base, home to Russia's strategic bomber fleet, and in Ryazan, a few hours' drive from Moscow.

Kyiv did not directly claim responsibility for the strikes but celebrated them.

"If Russia assesses the incidents were deliberate attacks, it will probably consider them as some of the most strategically significant failures of force protection since its invasion of Ukraine," Britain's ministry of defence said on Tuesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
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Unfortunate news for Comrade Putin...
1 posted on 12/06/2022 7:17:43 AM PST by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

All depends upon where the drones were launched from. If they were drones.


2 posted on 12/06/2022 7:20:34 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: Timber Rattler

US missile launch using Ukraine Nazis as cover.


3 posted on 12/06/2022 7:21:23 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Sochi and Moscow are in drone range now.


4 posted on 12/06/2022 7:21:38 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: Timber Rattler

Unfortunate news for Comrade Putin...

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I don’t think it’s quite that simple. It is probably leading toward retaliatory escalation. Don’t expect Putin to crawl away with whimper. If you’ve seen my post, I don’t propagandize for any side. I think the whole thing is messy.


5 posted on 12/06/2022 7:21:51 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Timber Rattler

putin’s likely to lose even more support at home for his little three-day war


6 posted on 12/06/2022 7:22:12 AM PST by Sunsong
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Drove that nail home...yup


7 posted on 12/06/2022 7:22:30 AM PST by GenX4Real (After Tuesday even the calendar says W T F)
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To: Timber Rattler

Huh, Putin pushers told me that Russia had “real air defenses”.


8 posted on 12/06/2022 7:22:38 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Timber Rattler

Which country has electricity?


9 posted on 12/06/2022 7:22:57 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Horse manure. Please stop posting pure crap.


10 posted on 12/06/2022 7:23:40 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Sunsong

What’s the going rate now? Biscuits and gravy.....fool


11 posted on 12/06/2022 7:23:42 AM PST by GenX4Real (After Tuesday even the calendar says W T F)
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To: z3n

Your premise is flawed

You assume a Russian capability that doesn’t exist. Retalliation is already maxed out


12 posted on 12/06/2022 7:24:17 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: Timber Rattler

Posting your DOD/DOS propaganda a bit earlier than usual, eh? Did they give you an earlier shift today?


13 posted on 12/06/2022 7:25:37 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (THE FBI INTERFERED IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION!!!)
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To: Magnum44

Says the horse manure king.


14 posted on 12/06/2022 7:26:49 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
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To: bert

You assume a Russian capability that doesn’t exist. Retalliation is already maxed out

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That is just assuming Russia completely abandoned all of it’s cold war research programs and obeyed all the treaties.


15 posted on 12/06/2022 7:27:09 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Timber Rattler

But this is all going perfectly by Comrade Putin’s plan. LOL.


16 posted on 12/06/2022 7:27:45 AM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

You should go back to your history books and re-read the section on Hitlers London blitz. How did that end up? Lack of a power grid doesnt mean defeat. In fact it only strengthens resolve.


17 posted on 12/06/2022 7:28:01 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I dont post bull$hit. If you are going to insinuate this was a US attack, put some facts on the table or take your little minded insults and wise cracks to DU.


18 posted on 12/06/2022 7:30:43 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Magnum44

Think....just think for a fkn moment....He would lay waste to this $hit hole if he chose. Think bigger....I’m a cold war vet....he has a different agenda. He and his country will exist during our bullshit reset.....fkn think


19 posted on 12/06/2022 7:36:00 AM PST by GenX4Real (After Tuesday even the calendar says W T F)
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To: GenX4Real

And a Newbie says what?

GenX4Real: Since Mar 14, 2022


20 posted on 12/06/2022 7:38:22 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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