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  • Dramatic moment wing falls off ageing £15m Putin warplane in middle of Ukraine attack mission - as amazingly pilot survives

    06/14/2025 8:25:06 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 18 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 6/14/2025 | WILL STEWART and CIARAN FOREMAN
    Dramatic footage has caught the extraordinary moment the wing of a £15million Russian warplane fell off in the middle of a Ukraine attack mission. The attack jet crashed after flying in a pair over Ukraine's Donetsk region, with the pilot miraculously cheating death by ejecting before his aircraft fell to the ground. The doomed Su-25 warplane is seen on the video turning and falling out of the sky, crashing into a field. At first it appeared it had been shot down, with Ukrainian media claiming it had possibly been the victim of 'friendly fire' by an unguided missile from its...
  • Ukraine’s Cutting-Edge Ballistic Missile Reportedly Enters Combat Use

    06/10/2025 11:00:38 AM PDT · by Grzegorz 246 · 62 replies
    United24 Media ^ | Jun 10, 2025 | Vlad Litnarovych
    Ukraine has achieved a breakthrough in its domestic missile program. A new Ukrainian ballistic missile has completed a combat test, striking a Russian command post nearly 300 kilometers from the launch site, military analyst and director of the Center for Army, Conversion, and Disarmament Studies Valentyn Badrak revealed. The missile’s development began in May 2022, with a successful test already conducted in the summer of 2024. According to Badrak, the system is now entering serial production, Badrak stated in a recent interview with Ukrainian news outlet Ukrinform on June 10. “I don’t know how many missiles we can expect per...
  • Panic in Moscow after drone strike closes two major airports and oil refinery fire rages

    06/08/2025 1:49:07 PM PDT · by dennisw · 77 replies
    MSN ^ | 5-7 | Debadrita Sur
    Panic in Russia is growing amid intensifying attacks by Ukrainian forces on key infrastructure. Two major Moscow airports were temporarily shut down on Sunday due to a Ukrainian drone strike targeting Russia's capital city, Russian officials claimed, while an oil refinery in Engels, Saratov Oblast was targeted in a similar attack on Friday. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram that Russian air defense units destroyed multiple Ukrainian drones flying towards the city. Emergency personnel have been deployed at the wreckage sites, he said. This comes as Russia unleashed a massive air strike in Ukraine, with the war showing no...
  • Huge fire breaks out at Russian oil refinery after suspected Ukrainian drone attack

    06/07/2025 11:08:00 AM PDT · by Grzegorz 246 · 54 replies
    i Paper ^ | 7th June 2025 | Joe Duggan
    A huge blaze has erupted at an oil refinery in a Russian town that was hit by Ukrainian drones earlier this year. Footage shows a fire raging at the industrial site in Kstovo, around 500 miles from the front lines in eastern Ukraine. A thick column of black smoke poured from the plant, reportedly the Lukoil oil refinery in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
  • Europe can sustain Ukraine's war effort without U.S., German general says

    06/06/2025 7:29:56 PM PDT · by Mariner · 71 replies
    Reuters via Yahoo ^ | June 6th, 2025 | Sabine Siebold
    BERLIN (Reuters) -Europe is capable of sustaining Ukraine's resistance against Russia, even if the United States were to decide to completely halt its military support to Kyiv, the senior military official in charge of coordinating Germany's arms supplies told Reuters.Major General Christian Freuding said NATO's European members plus Canada had already exceeded the estimated $20 billion worth of U.S. military aid provided last year to Kyiv.They accounted for around 60% of the total costs borne by the Western allies, he said."The war against Ukraine is raging on our continent, it is also being waged against the European security order. If...
  • Ukraine strikes Russian air bases in 'preemptive strike' ahead of drone, missile attack, General Staff says

    06/06/2025 3:21:35 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 60 replies
    Kyiv Independent Yahoo News ^ | 6/6/2025 | Tim Zadorozhnyy
    Ukrainian forces struck multiple Russian airfields and military facilities overnight on June 6, hours before Russia launched one of its heaviest aerial assaults of the war, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported. Ukrainian strikes reportedly targeted Engels and Dyagilevo airfields — two key hubs for Russia's long-range bomber fleet, as well as logistics sites in Russia's Kursk Oblast. -snip- Engels-2 air base, located in Saratov Oblast, nearly 600 kilometers (370 miles) from Ukraine's front lines, hosts Russia's Tu-95, Tu-22M3, and Tu-160 bombers — aircraft regularly used in missile attacks on Ukrainian cities. Ukraine's General Staff said a strike...
  • Kyiv tells Putin to ‘stop whining’ about Russia’s destroyed bombers and agree to ceasefire

    06/05/2025 11:34:46 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 28 replies
    TVP World ^ | 6/5/2025 | Staff
    Ukraine has told Russia’s President Vladimir Putin should “stop whining” about the strategic bombers destroyed in an audacious drone attack and agree to a ceasefire. “In response to the complaints of the Russian dictator, we emphasize that Russia once again confuses cause and consequence, black and white,” Ukraine’s foreign ministry said in a statement published on Thursday. It pointed out that, as the attacked party, Ukraine has the right to defend itself and that “No territorial limitations are imposed on the exercise of this right to self-defense.” It added that, unlike Russia, Ukraine does not target civilians but only legitimate...
  • Ukraine’s Drone Attack on Russia’s Bomber Fleet Won’t Win the War

    06/03/2025 6:10:16 AM PDT · by whyilovetexas111 · 105 replies
    National Security Journal ^ | 6/2/2025 | Andrew Latham
    While Spiderweb played out on Telegram and television, Russian forces continued to advance – slowly, methodically, and without spectacle. Around Chasiv Yar, in the ruins of Avdiivka, and along the land bridge to Crimea, Moscow is doing the work that wins wars. It’s pushing lines. It’s holding ground. It’s breaking down Ukrainian defenses by weight of numbers, firepower, and time. That kind of warfare doesn’t trend on social media, but it changes maps.
  • Ukraine hits bridge linking Crimea to Russia with underwater explosives

    06/03/2025 8:17:01 AM PDT · by tkocur · 126 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 3 June 2025 | Owen Amos and Jemma Crew
    Ukraine has detonated a massive underwater blast targeting the key road and rail bridge connecting the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula to Russia, damaging its underwater supports. The operation, claimed by Kyiv’s SBU security service, is the second high-profile operation by Ukraine in days striking significant Russian assets after a sophisticated drone raid on Moscow’s strategic bomber fleet on Sunday. The attack came as Ukraine confirmed it had been invited to the Nato summit later this month, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned it would be a “victory” for Russia if it was not present. The latest strike on the 12-mile-long Kerch bridge...
  • Steve Bannon Calls on Trump to ‘Pull All Support’ for Ukraine After Drone Blitz on Russians

    06/02/2025 2:21:33 PM PDT · by bimboeruption · 92 replies
    Mediate Via MSN ^ | 6-2-25 | David Gilmour
    MAGA firebrand Steve Bannon called on President Donald Trump to condemn Ukraine’s weekend drone attack on Russian airbases and “pull all support” after reports that the White House was not informed in advance of the offensive. More than 40 warplanes, including Russia’s Tu-95 and Tu-22 strategic bombers, were reportedly damaged or destroyed across four airbases in Murmansk and Irkutsk, thousands of miles from Ukraine’s border. The operation, which Ukraine revealed it had been in planning for 18-months, came just one day before Monday’s peace talks were set to begin in Istanbul. Axios reported on Sunday that sources within the administration...
  • Brazen drone strike showcases Ukrainian innovation as war grinds on

    06/02/2025 12:31:27 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 43 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | June 2, 2025 1:15 p.m. EDT | Siobhán O'Grady , Francesca Ebel , Serhiy Morgunov and Alex Horton
    KYIV — For 18 months, Ukraine’s internal security service planned an audacious assault on far-flung Russian airfields — first sneaking drones into Russia, then planting them near key military runways. On Sunday, just ahead of a new round of peace talks, it was go time: Near four unsuspecting Russian military bases, remotely activated roofs lifted off mobile homes and sheds parked on flatbed trucks. Armed Ukrainian drones tucked inside soared upward, then pounced on military aircraft lined up on the runways, engulfing many in flames. The brazen attack — which Ukrainian officials claimed destroyed at least 13 Russian aircraft and...
  • Europe Is Preparing for War With Russia

    06/02/2025 11:29:48 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 70 replies
    The New American ^ | May 30, 2025 | Paul Dragu
    As America seeks to dial back its military presence in Europe and war continues in Ukraine, European nations are dusting off their war machines and training for battle. By all indications, no matter what happens between Russia and Ukraine, tensions on the historically war-fraught Continent will almost certainly not return to pre-2022 levels.On Wednesday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced a new, chummier military partnership between his nation and Ukraine. He said Germany will continue to provide military support, and promised to dole out 5 billion euros in military aid. Merz also said the Germans will supply Ukraine with long-range weapons...
  • Zelensky’s Gauntlet – Did Ukraine Just Draw the USA and NATO Closer to War with Russia by Targeting Russian Strategic Long-Range Bombers Covered by SALT and START Treaties?

    06/02/2025 11:33:51 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 109 replies
    First the cliff notes version: There’s an important detail to remember. People are laughing at the long-range Russian bombers being left out in the open, vulnerable to attack. However, the bomber visibility is required as part of several nuclear agreements between the USA and Russia (SALT and START). Our U.S. long range nuclear capable bombers, covered under the same agreements, are also visible. Ukraine President Zelenskyy is playing with fire by targeting them, which also explains why Zelenskyy never told President Trump in advance.The U.S and NATO have provided the means. However, #1) did Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy just exploit...
  • Vladimir Putin poised to enact revenge on Ukraine and AXE Russian spymasters after devastating bombers strike

    06/02/2025 5:17:50 AM PDT · by Phoenix8 · 30 replies
    GB News ^ | 2/6/2025 | Henderson
    Vladimir Putin is set to dismiss his intelligence chiefs following a catastrophic security breach, which led to Ukraine taking out 41 aircraft worth £1.5billion across multiple airbases. The Russian leader has been conspicuously absent from public view since Ukraine's successful strikes, with an insider revealing: "He will hit back at Ukraine, but also avenge his underlings who allowed this humiliation to happen." The FSB security service, led by Putin's close ally Alexander Bortnikov, 73, faces particular scrutiny over the intelligence failure, which led to 117 first-person view kamikaze drones carrying out the daring attack. Civilian lorries were able to carry...
  • Ukraine’s Stunning Assault Roils Russia’s Global Military Strategy

    06/02/2025 5:22:26 AM PDT · by karpov · 89 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | June 2, 2025 | Daniel Michaels and Jane Lytvynenko
    Ukraine’s unprecedented drone strikes on Russian air force bases weaken Moscow’s ability to wage war on its smaller neighbor and undermine its capacity to threaten more distant rivals such as the U.S.—a shift with potentially far-reaching geostrategic implications. A sizable portion of the fleet Moscow uses to launch guided-missile attacks on Ukraine—and would rely on to strike adversaries in the event of a nuclear war—was damaged or destroyed in the coordinated attacks. Russia no longer produces the decades-old Tupolev planes, meaning it has lost a cornerstone of its ability to project military power beyond its borders. Newer Russian planes are...
  • Zelensky's Gauntlet - Did Ukraine JustDraw the USA andNATO Closer to War with Russia by Targeting Russian Strategic Long-Range BombersCovered by SALT andSTART Treaties?

    06/02/2025 5:55:23 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 119 replies
    Conservative Treehouse ^ | 6/2/25 | Sundance
    First the cliff notes version: There’s an important detail to remember. People are laughing at the long-range Russian bombers being left out in the open, vulnerable to attack. However, the bomber visibility is required as part of several nuclear agreements between the USA and Russia (SALT and START). Our U.S. long range nuclear capable bombers, covered under the same agreements, are also visible. Ukraine President Zelenskyy is playing with fire by targeting them, which also explains why Zelenskyy never told President Trump in advance. The U.S and NATO have provided the means. However, #1) did Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy just...
  • Ukraine Wipes Out Dozens of Russian Nuclear Bombers in Drone Strike Deep Inside Russia – Escalating War with Russia – Trump WAS NOT Notified – Takes Place Two Days After Lindsey Graham’s Visit with Zelensky

    06/02/2025 6:33:37 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 81 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | June 01, 2025 | Staff
    Ukrainian drones took out numerous Russian bombers on Sunday over a thousand miles from the border with Ukraine. This comes one day before peace talks resume in Turkey. ================================================================== Ukrainian drones on Sunday took out an estimated 36% of all Russian strategic aviation! $2 billion worth of damage! Volodymyr Zelensky announced that 117 drones were used in the strike inside Russia that wiped wiped out dozens of nuclear “doomsday” bombers and other aircraft. President Trump WAS NOT NOTIFIED of the attack before it took place – because Trump wants peace and the globalists want World War and the destruction of...
  • ‘We are moving towards war-readiness’ – Starmer says UK military will be 10 times more lethal thanks to talks with Zelensky.

    06/02/2025 7:19:00 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 37 replies
    Zlatti 71 ^ | 6/2/25 | Keir Starmer
    ‘This is the core mission of our armed forces. When we are directly threatened by states with modern military forces, the most effective way to deter is to be prepared. And frankly to show that we are prepared to deliver peace through strength. We will innovate and accelerate our delivery. We will use the lessons of Ukraine, which I have discussed with Zelensky many times, to ensure that every capability we have works seamlessly with the others. Drones, destroyers, AI aircraft – every branch of our armed forces is fully integrated to create a force that is 10 times more...
  • Zelensky Opens Peace Talks with Russia by Gloating about Sunday’s Bomber Attack Deep Inside Russia and Begging the West for More Weapons (VIDEO)

    06/02/2025 7:34:21 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 122 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 6/2/25 | Jim Hoft
    Illegitimate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky opened his comments at the peace negotiations in Turkey by gloating about Sunday’s surprise attack deep inside Russia and begging the West (NATO) for more weapons to hurl at Russia. Zelensky’s comments come the day after Ukraine and its Western allies pulled off a massive attack deep inside Russia.
  • Putin shamed: Zelensky says operation to destroy 40 Russian warplanes was 'Next to FSB HQ'

    06/01/2025 7:52:29 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 151 replies
    Express Newspapers ^ | Mon, Jun 2, 2025 | Michael D. Carroll
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed that a devastating drone strike which obliterated more than 40 Russian aircraft, including "irreplaceable" nuclear-capable warplanes, was orchestrated from within Russia—right under the nose of the Kremlin’s feared security service. The dramatic operation, which reportedly caused a staggering $7 billion in damage, was launched using 117 drones and struck at the heart of Russia’s air capabilities, hitting 34 percent of its strategic cruise missile carriers. In a remarkable statement on his official X account, President Zelensky shared details of the operation, describing it as a major success that had been in the works for...