Raging Putin 'sends top brass to front' after warship humiliation

[Celerity]

Revenge raids ordered across Crimea over missile destruction of Novocherkassk that may have killed 100

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russian-warship-destroyed-ukraine-war-attack-crimea-3zg6pckjc

https://archive.is/q0omh



President Putin is “completely furious” at the sinking of the Novocherkassk warship and has ordered raids across occupied Crimea in an attempt to hunt down the resistance fighters that provided intelligence on its location, according to a Ukrainian partisan group. “The flywheel of repression is spinning,” the Atesh group wrote on Telegram. “Local residents have been raided throughout the city, their smartphones are being taken away and their houses are being searched.”

The group added: “It is reported that Putin is completely furious over the destruction of the Novocherkassk large landing ship. An order was issued to punish the Crimean air defence forces. It is expected that many commanders will be removed and sent to the front to participate in assault groups.” The ship was struck at port in Feodosiya, Crimea, by a British cruise missile fired from a Ukrainian supersonic Sukhoi Su-24 jet. It went up in a huge explosion as its load, reported to be Iranian-made Shahed suicide drones, detonated.

Satellite images released by Radio Svoboda appear to show that the enormous blast hit a second ship nearby, a UTS-150 training ship that can be seen partially submerged. At least 52 men from 77 serving aboard the Novocherkassk have been reported missing or injured after the attack, according to the independent Russian media outlet ASTRA, including young conscripts and contract sailors. However, analysts believe the size of the explosion suggests that there may have been a far higher tally of injury and death. Yan Matveev, the Russian military analyst, said: “In the worst case, up to 100 people could have died instantly.

Local authorities announced the death of only one — apparently a port worker. “The sailors will be called missing and relatives will obtain certificates of the death of their husbands and sons through the courts. “At least a couple of dozen people from two shifts should have been there. Neither the Kremlin media, nor the ministry of defence, nor Z-military correspondents and other supporters of the war wrote a word about them.” The Kremlin’s efforts to cover up its war dead have led to demands that mobilised family members be brought home through grassroots organisations such as ‘Put Domoy’ (‘The Way Home’).

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[SoFlaBro]

1. That goddamn shit went up like a fucking tinderbox! Loads of dead Putin commie scumbags.

[tanyev]

2. That will make it easier for Ukraine to target the top brass.