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Russia says U.S. is responsible for deadly Ukrainian attack on Crimea
Reuters ^ | June 23rd, 2024 | Guy Faulconbridge and Filipp Lebedev

Posted on 06/23/2024 10:32:25 AM PDT by shadowlands1960

- Russia says US is responsible for strike on Crimea.
- Ukraine struck Crimea with U.S.-supplied ATACMS.
- Russia says U.S. personnel input flight coordinates.
- Russia says at least three people killed, 124 injured.

MOSCOW, June 23 (Reuters) - Russia said on Sunday that the United States was responsible for a Ukrainian attack on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula with five U.S.-supplied missiles that killed at least five people including three children and injured 124 more. The Russian Defence Ministry said four of the U.S.-delivered Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles, equipped with cluster warheads, were shot down by air defence systems and the ammunition of a fifth had detonated in mid-air. The ministry said U.S. specialists had set the missiles' flight coordinates on the basis of information from U.S. spy satellites, meaning Washington was directly responsible. "Responsibility for the deliberate missile attack on the civilians of Sevastopol is borne above all by Washington, which supplied these weapons to Ukraine, and by the Kyiv regime, from whose territory this strike was carried out," the ministry said.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: crimea; escalation; filipplebedev; guyfaulconbridge; killkillkillforpeace; mic; ukraine; welfarewar
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To: Mariner
targeting that killed civilians in a completely civilian area.

Russian Ministry of Defense first claimed it was their fault, that their botched interception of 1 ATACMS had made it deviate from its flight path, causing it to detonate over civilians. But they quickly deleted it.

81 posted on 06/23/2024 12:48:07 PM PDT by tlozo ( Trump: "As everyone agrees, Ukraine Survival and Strength...is also important to us!" )
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To: tlozo
LOL, sure

hence your nickname --->>>tlolzo

82 posted on 06/23/2024 12:48:10 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: BobL

Ok, then lets do Stalin, who was also “forced” to invade Poland in 1939.

Happier?


83 posted on 06/23/2024 12:50:56 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: FreedomNotSafety
Follow the money.

That cuts both ways, Skippy.


84 posted on 06/23/2024 12:51:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: tlozo

Not a ‘botched’ intercept - they are protecting their fleet in harbor. So once again I ask... ‘why are we attacking the Russian fleet?’ Did I miss Congress declaring war on Russia?


85 posted on 06/23/2024 12:51:51 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: tlozo

“Russian Ministry of Defense first claimed it was their fault, that their botched interception of 1 ATACMS had made it deviate from its flight path, causing it to detonate over civilians.”

Source?

If so, then it’s not terrorist murder by the US. Or Ukraine.


86 posted on 06/23/2024 12:53:04 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: shadowlands1960
... ‘why are we attacking the Russian fleet?’ Did I miss Congress declaring war on Russia?

We are not attacking. Ukraine is using the weapons.

Reagan gave weapons to the Afghans. Did that mean we were attacking the Soviets?

87 posted on 06/23/2024 12:55:12 PM PDT by tlozo ( Trump: "As everyone agrees, Ukraine Survival and Strength...is also important to us!" )
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To: Mariner
Source?

https://x.com/NedSnow2019/status/1804948891084738588/photo/1

88 posted on 06/23/2024 12:55:55 PM PDT by tlozo ( Trump: "As everyone agrees, Ukraine Survival and Strength...is also important to us!" )
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To: tlozo

Don’t be silly. If we are using our satellites to guide these weapons, we are doing the attacking.


89 posted on 06/23/2024 12:57:01 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: tlozo
Reagan gave weapons to the Afghans. Did that mean we were attacking the Soviets?

90 posted on 06/23/2024 12:58:53 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: shadowlands1960

Agree with you 100%. I think the referendum was fair and that Crimea indeed belongs to Russia. Both Crimea and Donblast have had special status from the moment of Ukaine’s independence.


91 posted on 06/23/2024 12:59:34 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: shadowlands1960

IIRC-—PUTIN STARTED THIS NONSENSE.

HE WANTS TO “RE-UNITE” ALL THE ORIGINAL SOVIET UNION ENTITIES.


92 posted on 06/23/2024 1:01:21 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Mariner
If so, then it’s not terrorist murder by the US. Or Ukraine.

Right, Russia is bombing Ukraine every day, killing civilians so everyone should be outraged one badly intercepted missile killed vacationing Russians in a war zone - Crimea. Okay

At least three people were killed in a Russian bombing attack on Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, on Saturday afternoon, Ukraine's president said.

Another 38 people were wounded in the attack, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. Four aerial bombs were launched against the city, damaging residential buildings, shops and public transport stops, said Kharkiv regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov. He said that four of the wounded were in serious condition.

93 posted on 06/23/2024 1:01:26 PM PDT by tlozo ( Trump: "As everyone agrees, Ukraine Survival and Strength...is also important to us!" )
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To: shadowlands1960

Ukraine is attacking the harbor of Sebastopol in order to interdict its use for supplying Russian forces occupying Southern Ukraine.

The US (and half the world too) are supplying aid to Ukraine in order to repel this Russian aggression. This aid is due to Ukraine according to various international guarantees given Ukraine, plus the prudential cause of discouraging this sort of international aggression.


94 posted on 06/23/2024 1:01:47 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: tlozo

Yes it did mean we were attacking the Soviets - IN AFGHANISTAN. We fought many proxy wars in that era without directly attacking Russia itself. And before you claim that Crimea isn’t Russia, that fleet has been parked there since the 18th century... Russia fought a very costly war in the 1850s to protect it... they almost certainly will do so again.


95 posted on 06/23/2024 1:03:23 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: buwaya

The “international aggression” is advancing an outdated but ravenous military alliance up to the doorstep of an adversary in order to keep the honey pots flowing for globalist elites, terrified their revenue would be halted by the sudden collapse of their adversary.


96 posted on 06/23/2024 1:06:23 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: ridesthemiles

You must live on another planet from me.


97 posted on 06/23/2024 1:07:54 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960
We fought many proxy wars

Yes, its a proxy war.

98 posted on 06/23/2024 1:09:09 PM PDT by tlozo ( Trump: "As everyone agrees, Ukraine Survival and Strength...is also important to us!" )
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To: tlozo

This evening, Ukrainian forces successfully struck the Russian NIP-16 space tracking and communication center in Vitino, Crimea with multiple MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles.

Multiple areas of the facility are burning.


99 posted on 06/23/2024 1:13:27 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: shadowlands1960
advancing an outdated but ravenous military alliance up to the doorstep of an adversary

LOL, "outdated but ravenous military alliance". Ask Finland about the outdated part.

NATO’s aggressive expansion into Sweden,Finland and Poland vs Mariupol’s peaceful path to Russia.


100 posted on 06/23/2024 1:14:59 PM PDT by tlozo ( Trump: "As everyone agrees, Ukraine Survival and Strength...is also important to us!" )
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