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Massive explosion rocks Crimea as ‘Ukrainian drones’ blow up ammo dump in latest blow to Vlad
Sun UK ^ | 7/22/2023 | Iona Cleave

Posted on 07/22/2023 9:37:25 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

Huge explosions rocked Russian-occupied Crimea after suspected Ukrainian drones targeted an ammunition depot.

It is the third daring attack believed to have been masterminded by Ukraine on the annexed region this week in a humiliating blow to Vladimir Putin.

Sergei Aksyonov, the Moscow-installed leader of the region, reported the drone attack had succeeded in hitting an ammunition depot and there were no known casualties.

On telegram, he wrote: "As a result of an enemy drone on the Krasnogvardeisky district, there was a detonation at an ammunition depot.

"A decision was taken to evacuate people [living] within five kilometres" of the zone," he said, adding that: "To minimise risks, it was also decided to halt rail traffic on Crimean railways."

Footage shows multiple explosions near the city of Simferopol followed by a giant swarm of black smoke.

Local sources on social media suggested that drones struck an oil depot and airfield in the region, as well as the ammunition dump.

Kyiv has not yet commented on the strike.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crimea; ionacleave; putin; russia
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

All wars are full of propaganda.
Always have been. This one is no different.
There is nothing special about this one.


41 posted on 07/22/2023 12:42:28 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: popdonnelly

“The Russians are bombing grain storage buildings.”

How nice.


42 posted on 07/22/2023 12:44:10 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

There are no good guys in war. There are only instigators, and the USA’s” Intelligence Community” are always the instigators.

This time they bit off way more than they can chew and unintentionally turned control of the world over to the CCP.


43 posted on 07/22/2023 3:30:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Most wars have good guys and bad guys. Or bad and worse. There are cases where its arguable. In Ukraine its as clear as its ever been in any war.

History is our guide.

The argument about “instigators” is poor. This is a regular rhetorical trope of aggressors. “Its your fault, we had to do it!” goes back to, at least, Xerxes. After all, the free Greeks were “instigating” the conquered Greeks of Asia Minor to revolt, because the free ones still existed.


44 posted on 07/22/2023 3:45:01 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“”””Illegal cluster munitions supplied by the USA.””””

Cluster bombs aren’t illegal and their use is not a war crime.


45 posted on 07/22/2023 6:19:11 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: buwaya
In Ukraine its as clear as its ever been in any war.

It ain't Ukraine's war. It's the psycho globalists using Ukraine as a front to conduct a war against Russia so they can steal all Russia's stuff.

46 posted on 07/22/2023 6:23:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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