Super powerful Russian air strikes throughout Ukraine in retaliation for attempted aircraft hijacking
It doesn’t pay to wage terror on Russia. Let us recall for example, that the daily air strikes on different Ukrainian sites started in Oct 2022 in retaliation for a missile attack on the Kerch Bridge.
Much of the country is without power and thousands of soldiers and officers, including foreign mercenaries, have been blown to bits. Further, significant amounts of Western-supplied equipment, vehicles, artillery pieces, ammo, drones and other military assets are destroyed almost daily by Russian missiles, drones and glide bombs. Anyone familiar with the daily air strikes knows that Russia is winning the war hands down.
It’s a no-brainer
Firstly, it’s got more shells than exist in the entire western world and its industry can supply several times more than the entire West can.
Russia has always had several times more artillery shells available at the battle front, as much as 10 Russian shells to 1 Ukrainian shell. [See my report Ukraine is out of ammo] Since military experts tell us that the most important factor in who wins/ who loses on the battlefield is the quantity of artillery shells, if one side has x times as many shells as the other, then it will generally lose x times as many killed and wounded, all other things being equal. We can be pretty sure that the Ukrainian press is lying when it pretends that the Russian side is the one with the massive losses. And the US media almost never fact checks the “news” it gets from Kiev. So there must be millions of Americans fully expecting that Ukraine will wind up winning a war that it absolutely cannot win.
Secondly, of course, Russia strikes Ukraine literally daily, as my readers know, and while these strikes kill and wound thousands of troops every week, no Russian troops suffer at all as a result because the men launching the missiles, drones and bombs stay safely away from the air defenses. The ratio of survival to casualties is therefore extremely favorable to Russia.
The instances of successful Ukrainian missile and drone strikes to Ukrainian strikes on Russia is also extremely favorable to Russia. Only once in a great while do we read of Russian military assets getting struck by a Western-supplied munition such as the HIMARS, Storm Shadow, ATACAMS or other, and most of these munitions are essentially wasted on terrorist attacks on civilians and civil infrastructure. Russia’s strikes target military and military-related infrastructure such as power substations and power plants that power trains carrying manpower and materiel or supplies to the front lines, or powering military industries.
Thus, the Russians wage strategic warfare while the Ukrainians wage mostly terror
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Here’s your daily air strike update for July 8, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
08.07.2024
Sergei Leonov
Ukraine was shocked by a powerful missile strike from the Russian army. SMO [special military operation] news for July 8
This morning, the Kiev regime is going through perhaps the most difficult times since the start of the special operation in Ukraine. Explosions are heard throughout the country. An air raid alert has been declared in all oblasts.
According to the telegram channel “Operation Z: Military Correspondents of the Russian Spring” (1.5 million subscribers), in Kiev, a powerful explosion occurred near Zhulyany airport. The mayor of the city, Vitaliy Klitschko, reported an explosion in the Shevchenko district. In the Solomensky, Dnieper and Goloseevsky districts of Kiev, debris fell and fires started.
Residents of Kiev report a missile attack on the Artem military plant, where a warehouse was hit. This is one of the main producers of missiles for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
The lords and serfs are trembling with fear. The blow to Ukraine made Poland whine
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In Odessa, power outages and electric transport stoppages are reported. In Dnepropetrovsk, explosions occurred near the village of Aviatorskoe, where one of the country's largest airports, Dnepr, is located. The blow hit the Novokramatorsky Machine-Building Plant, as well as the Ukrainian Armed Forces airfield in the Zhytomyr region and military infrastructure facilities in Krivoy Rog.
Ukrainian public pages, citing information from the authorities, write that the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to shoot down more than half of the missiles over the capital. However, the debris allegedly fell on a business center, residential buildings, and a private children's hospital located on the first floors of the high-rise building. True, for some reason they publish on the Internet photos of ready-made submunitions of anti-aircraft missiles that locals found near the damaged buildings.
“This is why you shouldn’t ignore anxiety. In 90% of cases, the most dangerous debris is from shot down missiles. According to our information, they were targeting the hidden headquarters of the “decision-making center” of the security forces (SBU/GUR). As we can see, we hit the same spot three times,” they write on social networks.
In Kiev, three DTEK transformer substations were completely destroyed or damaged, the company reports. They are located in Goloseevsky and Shevchenkovsky districts. Electrical networks were also damaged.
The Ukrainian publication "Country" confirms the strike in the area of the Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant, an enterprise in Pokrovsk, in Krivoy Rog at the administrative building of an industrial enterprise.
People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Maryana Bezuglaya.
Like in a shooting gallery. The Rada demands the dismissal of the general for the Russian attack on Mirgorod
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“More than 40 missiles of various types were fired into Ukraine today, reports [illegitimate president whose powers expired on May 21, Vladimir] Zelensky. There were strikes in Kiev, Dnieper, Krivoy Rog, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk,” the journalists add.
The Telegram channel “Older than Edda” posted a video of an attack on Kiev. “Judging by this video, munitions arrived in Kiev today very densely, and at the time of the hits the air defense was not visible. Either they used up the ammunition, including on decoys, or the installations, at least some of them, had already been destroyed by this point,” the authors believe.
In the meantime, Russian “Kalibers” and “Kinzhals” are destroying the military infrastructure of Ukraine, NATO aircraft are on duty at the border, military correspondents write. “A Boeing KC-135T Stratotanker was spotted, presumably accompanying a reconnaissance aircraft with its radar transponders turned off. Most likely, the results of the strikes are being monitored, and the direction of flight of the missiles is being studied for the subsequent transfer of data to Ukrainian air defense systems,” they believe.
The State Department explained when Kiev will be allowed to launch ATACMS on Russia
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Meanwhile, Zelensky calmly went to Poland on the day of the attacks. In Warsaw, he will hold talks with Prime Minister Donald Tusk and sign a defense agreement with him.
The Ukrainian Telegram channel “Legitimny” shared an insider. “Bankovy [Office of the President] let everyone down to publish and disperse only the children’s clinic in order to: A) divert attention from other strikes, and there are very interesting objects there and people could ask the authorities why military facilities are directly adjacent to residential buildings and hospitals; B) try to raise the morale of the army and the people by inciting hatred towards the enemy. They say Russia purposefully hit the children, although everyone knows it was a downed missile; C) distract the masses from the daily lawlessness of power, corruption, tariff increases, rising prices, growing disappointment of the masses, etc.; D) distract from the constant retreat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces; D) add another case to justify the unlimited Zemobilization [play on the name Zelensky+mobilization]; E) media hype in the Western press before the NATO summit.
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One commentator suggested that the above-described massive air strike on Ukraine last night was in retaliation for the attempted hijacking of a Tu-22M3 bomber described in the report linked below.
https://tass.com/defense/1813807?ysclid=lydlau6zcd842245242
What is known about Ukrainian intelligence’s attempt to steal Russian bomber
Evidence has been discovered showing that intelligence agencies from NATO countries were involved in preparing and carrying out the operation, the FSB noted
MOSCOW, July 8. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has foiled an attempt to steal a Tu-22M3 strategic bomber and bring it to Ukraine, the FSB said in a statement.
A Russian pilot was offered $3 mln to take the aircraft.
But this pilot was a true patriot and blew the whistle on his contact.
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Let us recall that in August 2023, a Russian helicopter pilot hijacked his Mi-8 and flew it from Kursk in Russia to Ukraine. He also reportedly then shot and killed his 2 crew members. He received a half-million USD for this treachery.
He then absconded to Spain where he lived for a short while before being assassinated. His killers were reputedly Russian FSB (security) agents but there was also speculation that they may have actually been Ukrainian agents. We may never know.
Maxim Kuzminov shot and killed in Spain
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I have already written an analysis of this aircraft, and nothing is unknown.
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