Russians getting ready to launch another "big" missile offensive against apartment buildings, schools, and museums in Ukraine.
Multiple Tu-95 Bear and Tu-160 bombers airborne and at least two Black Sea fleet missile subs active.
No confirmed impacts, yet.
That's coming.
I don't want to be over confident here but it seems that all or almost all of the Russian missiles fired tonight have been shot down.
Ukraine's air defense was in pretty good shape as of yesterday, with some 90% of the promised equipment having been delivered.
Civilian casualties confirmed (25+ for now).
Russians bombers landing (launches are over).
We're quickly approaching the end of this strike (within 15 minutes or so of this toot).
Russian supporting social media very quiet so far.
Ukrainian Air Force claims to have downed 15 Kh-101/555 cruise missiles out of 18 launched by Russian bombers overnight.
The claimed air launched missile numbers are consistent with the number of bombers that took off, although a little low. This indicates that once again either not all of the Russian missiles fired, or some of the bombers took off with less than a full load.
fckng hell
you know, this was obvious Russia was not just going to give up. If some country had just handled Putin from the fucking beginning, we would not be here right now. @Render
@Armchaircouch @Render
Tbh, I kinda feel like one phone call from Xi Jinping a year ago would’ve done it. PRC pretends to be “uninvolved” but, imo, they have blood on their hands.
@Render seems like they will need something like Israel's iron dome defenses long term.
@Render dammit.
@Render what capability does Ukraine have in returning the favour to strategic military positions within Russia proper?
@jordicusmaximus Limited, but not impossible, as the Ukrainian's have demonstrated previously.
In my opinion the proper response is a series of offensives that result in one or several large pockets of Russian troops cut off behind Ukrainian lines. Resulting 10,000 or more Russian POW's.
@Render thanks for the updates
@Render do you think there's patriot systems in place already?
it would be unfortunate for those bombers to run into their range
@Render that depends on your news source. It’s possible Russian state media will say all missiles hit their targets and were so effective, that after they hit their assigned target they auto reassembled themselves and hit other targets that were planned in the future.
@Render Slow and steady wins the race here. Russia isn't using good planning nor strategy. UA is all comfy watching the fireworks. Mostly.
@Render If there was a way to get in the heads of the opposition it should be done. By all means.
@Render 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
@Render This feels a lot like “Saddam’s Scuds vs. Patriot Missile Batteries” from the first Gulf War.
@Render the Ukrainian people must be so weary. I don’t even want to imagine .. it hurts just to know and be unable to do anything about it.
@Render 🤬 Has that Iranian shipment arrived?
@smittycanada1 Probably. At least as far as the 2014 border.
Explosions reported in Kyiv oblast and Dnipropetrovsk oblast.
Air defense systems are reportedly active.