Looks like the pope old as he is will be in Ukraine this weekend.
God help his security getting the old guy around.
Good news
Video from the drone's pov
all that matters is the success since June , the russians rightly had their asses kicked in the first year. What is happening now doesnt seem to be working, invariably attackers take more casualties against these fortified lines, So unless they actually break their lines and get into their rear, its squandering Ukrainian resources and men
Depending on what side of history you want to sit on.... someone destroying a dam which leads to the destruction of one of the main industrial complexes supporting a war against you is seen as tactical sense.
I'd wondered why some of the previous surface drone attacks were being done in broad daylight, seems someone on the Ukrainian side had the same thought!
Thought Russia said all the drones were destroyed 😎
They were, some by projectiles fired by the Russians and this one by a Russian ship strategical deployed to block its path.
Technically they were destroyed. One just happened to destroy itself on the side of a ship.
And the Moskva was only damaged too, and being towed to port for repairs...and then a storm sank it. Or so we are told.
Lol
Ouch, that looks like quite the hit. It all depends on the internal damage of course, but that ship could be out of action for months, possibly even a write-off if the keel has taken damage.
Footage of same
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As that tweet has been deleted here it is on YT.
We will soon see the Russians put cages around their ships 😀
Perhaps all the fighting is useless.
Maybe the most effective way to win this war is to force Russia to keep increasing military spending so they are forced to printing larger amounts of Rubles to fill even bigger government deficits.
Tariffs on sanctioned goods that third countries known to be exporting to Russia would be an ideal way of making the war more expensive.
Just like HMS Royal Oak destroyed four German torpodoes in 1939. 😁
Was the ship that was hit launching missiles into Ukraine ? Looked like a big ship but apparently is almost 50 years old. Regardless, hopefully it sinks.
That's odd...according to you it's already failed. Is this Schroedinger's Counteroffensive; simultaneously failed and not yet failed?
"Olenegorski Gornyk" is a Ropucha class landing ship.She was originally part of the Baltic fleet but was transferred to the Black Sea in preparation for the war in February 2022. The only missiles these ships carry are SA-N-5 SAMs and GRAD rockets to support newly landed troops.
Interestingly, two of "Olenegorski Gornyk"'s sister ships were attacked and damaged in Berdyansk in March 2022. Neither of those two ships have been repaired yet due to an apparent lack of spare parts. So even if the damage of this latest attack is repairable, I'd say that ship is out of action for the duration of the war. Also, that means that Russia has now lost four ships sunk or out of action at sea or in port in a land war against a country with effectively no navy...
EDIT: Actually, the total according to my count would be five ships lost or out of action. An Alligator class landing ship was sunk in the same attack that damaged those two Ropucha class ships in Berdyansk.
The front fell off.
Thats 2 naval vessels hit in a matter of days -
And if the US fly protection flightsin the black sea for cargo ships heading to ukraine that could open up Ukrainian sea trade , except the ports and loading facilities are being destroyed by missile strikes .
And if the US fly protection flightsin the black sea for cargo ships heading to ukraine
They won't.
Moscow, again
Ukraine is paying a high human price for this war, but we're all going to pay a high environmental cost. We were already careering down a slippery slope but with the 1000's of explosions, fires, oil spills etc that are happening everyday, its just going to make things worse at a rate of knots. Throw in the destruction of dams and the threat to food supplies and the arguments for an international push to put an end to this invasion is growing every day.
You don't get it, or chose not to, Putin will see every concession as a vindication of his invasion and will continue the war.
This war will inevitably split the Russian Federation and leave Russia in a worse state than even after the collapse of the USSR.
Well, you can offset the environmental damage by
As for an end to the invasion. One likely outcome is that the war will revert to artillery attrition and will burn out in a year or so. Russia is sinking fast and they can't keep it up much longer, let alone a 'forever war'.
Therefore, the world needs to get its collective ass together and finish off Putin once and for all, and it could be done very quickly if they did this.
I'd see it as the opposite honestly.
Leaving aside the food issue which is obviously a cynical evil move by the Kremlin. Which shows an astounding lack of empathy towards even their own supposed allies in Africa and China.
The negative impact of the explosions and fires will be a drop in the bucket compared to us weaning ourselves off Russian oil and gas and accelerating towards renewables to replace the shortfall in Europe. Probably one of the only things the little moron Putin has succeeded at in trying to blackmail us with energy.
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