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  • Humiliated Putin loses warplanes worth £148,000,000 despite stepping up security

    06/28/2025 4:23:23 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 29 replies
    Metro UK ^ | 6/28/2025 | Brooke Davies
    Vladimir Putin has lost four warplanes worth £37 million each despite stepping up their defences after Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb. A pair of Su-34 fighters were destroyed and two more damaged after an attack on on Marinovka military airfield in Volgograd. Ukraine used long range drones to fly more than 200 miles to inflict the latest £148 million blow to Putin’s aerial firepower. It came less than a month after Russia supposedly tightened its military air base security after 40-plus strategic bombers and spy planes were hit in Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb. Russia responded by hitting Ukrainian civilians with a strike on...
  • Ukrainian drone strike on Crimea air base destroys 3 Russian helicopters, SBU claims

    06/28/2025 8:52:11 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 32 replies
    APA ^ | 6/28/2025 | Farid Azeri
    Drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) struck the Kirovske military airfield in Crimea overnight on June 28, the SBU told the Kyiv Independent, APA reports. The attack destroyed Mi-8, Mi-26 and Mi-28 attack helicopters, and a Pantsyr-S1 self-propelled anti-aircraft missile and gun system, the SBU claimed. According to the SBU, Ukraine targeted Russian aviation, air defense systems, as well as ammunition, reconnaissance and attack drones storage facilities. Secondary explosions were heard at the airfield during the night.
  • Russia economy meltdown as mortgage rates soar to 25% and pensioners 'struggle to survive'

    06/28/2025 9:28:46 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 72 replies
    Express UK ^ | 6/26/2025 | JON KING
    Housing and utility bills in some parts of Russia are expected to soar by up to 25% as the country's economic meltdown worsens. Russian media reports that tariffs on housing, gas, water and electricity will go up by an average of 11.9% on July 1, but some regions will see an increase between 23% and 25%. Mortgage rates have also soared to 25% in recent months. One Russian newspaper, translated into English by the BBC's Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg and shared on social media, says the increase will be "painful for many families". The same publication reports the experience of...