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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:03 PM Aug 2025

Russian Air Strikes on Kyiv Kill 18 as Putin Snubs US on War

(Bloomberg) -- Russia unleashed a wave of drone and missile strikes on Kyiv, in defiance of US calls for an end to the fighting, as Ukraine and its allies kept up efforts to obtain future security guarantees for the war-torn nation.

The Russian attack killed 18 people, including four children, and injured at least 48, Ukrainian authorities said. More bodies are potentially still buried under the rubble, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Telegram.

“Russia chooses ballistics instead of the negotiating table,” Zelenskiy said in a post on the X platform on Thursday.

Ukrainian air defense said Russia fired nearly 600 drones, two Kinzhal and nine Iskander-M missiles and 20 Kha-101 cruise missiles in strikes across the country overnight. It said 563 drones and 26 of the missiles were shot down.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-unleashes-aerial-assault-kyiv-054047251.html

But what about my Nobel Prize? Donny Dipshit

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Russian Air Strikes on Kyiv Kill 18 as Putin Snubs US on War (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 OP
Fat turd was going to end this before the election. Klarkashton Aug 2025 #1
and elsewhere - we are fed a steady diet of how Ukraine is actually 'winning' this conflict/war ... stopdiggin Aug 2025 #2

stopdiggin

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2. and elsewhere - we are fed a steady diet of how Ukraine is actually 'winning' this conflict/war ...
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:19 PM
Aug 2025

Hmmmmmm .. ?
If Russia is 'collapsing', as we are told - it doesn't appear to be happening near fast enough.

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(and for those that haven't twigged to the obvious - and thoroughly reported and analyzed - the 'peace talks' were essentially, and at core, nothing more than another con. from people whose track record ... should be signal enough.)

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