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  • Russia Resorting to Soviet-Era Anti-Aircraft Missiles to Hit Land Targets

    07/10/2022 12:37:23 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 52 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 7/10/2022 | THOMAS KIKA
    Russian forces are reportedly relying on Soviet-era munitions for certain tasks as the invasion of Ukraine labors on. The Russian government has, in recent weeks, increasingly ordered its forces in Ukraine to repurpose outdated anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles for use on land-based targets, according to a Tuesday report from iNews. In Mykolaiv, a city in Southern Ukraine, six strikes over the last weekend have been attributed to Russian S-300 missiles, anti-aircraft munitions introduced roughly 40 years ago with a range of 75 miles. Two Kh-32 missiles, originally designed to sink aircraft carriers, were also credited with the strike on a...
  • Vladimir Putin lackey Sergey Lavrov storms out of G20 after photo snub

    07/08/2022 9:52:39 AM PDT · by McGruff · 21 replies
    NY Post ^ | July 8, 2022 | Snejana Farberov
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stormed off and headed home early after being snubbed by other diplomats at the G20 summit — who refused to take a group photo with him over his nation’s invasion of Ukraine. Foreign ministers who gathered in Bali, Indonesia, this week, did not pose for a traditional “family”-style group photo, after several of them reportedly refused to be pictured with Vladimir Putin’s chief envoy. The Japanese news agency Kyodo reported that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken led the photo-op boycott.