Russia launches massive missile barrage across Ukraine

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By RENATA BRITO and HANNA ARHIROVA 54 minutes ago

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Multiple regions of Ukraine, including its capital, faced a massive Russian missile attack Thursday, the biggest wave of strikes in weeks targeting power stations and other critical infrastructure during freezing weather.

Air raid sirens rang out across the country. Ukraine’s military chief, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, said preliminary data showed Russia fired 69 missiles at energy facilities and Ukrainian forces shot down 54 of them. There were no immediate reports of any deaths.

Russia dispatched explosive drones to selected regions overnight before broadening the barrage with “air and sea-based cruise missiles launched from strategic aircraft and ships” in the morning, the Ukrainian air force reported.

The widespread attack was the latest in a series of Russian strikes on power and water supplies that have increased the Ukrainian population’s suffering. Moscow has launched such attacks on a weekly basis since October, while its ground forces struggle to advance.



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[Botany]

1. Time to sink those Russian Ships and it also time for Ukraine to get some attack aircraft too

And it is also time for Ukraine to launch attacks on the bases in Russia where their planes drones, and missiles
are being launched from.

[dalton99a]

3. +1

[BeyondGeography]

2. IOW, Kreminna will falll

Vlad always fires more missiles off when the news is bad.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Putin is trying to force Zelensky to give him favorable terms in the "peace" negotiations.

[Lonestarblue]

5. Where is Russia getting all these missiles? They were supposed to be running out of them

weeks ago and I believe shipments from Iran have not started yet. North Korea? Perhaps China supplying them in secret?

[oldsoftie]

6. It would certainly be easy to get them from China.

And they've got a TON of them. They LOVE missiles & rockets

[CanonRay]

8. A good percentage are old nuclear missiles without warheads

fired to confuse and overwhelm the UK air defenses. Or so I've been reading.

[Xolodno]

9. Don't trust everything you read.

A lot of "Russia is almost out of missiles" came from the UK (and the UK is known for being pro's at propaganda) press and gets picked up here as it's what we all want to hear. It's how you maintain public support.

The article showing that missiles hitting Ukraine were made recently as October however, gets no traction as its not what we want to hear.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/us/politics/cruise-missiles-russia-ukraine-sanctions.html

I'll go out on a limb and say they probably have quietly built a small semi-conductor military business or two, and the articles during the unleash of sanctions may have exaggerated on Russia's lack of capabilities. They had to know this could be a problem awhile back and took quiet steps to correct it. Developing the chips they needed but not putting them on the open market and continuing to buy chips from the outside.

And the article that says Ukraine's casualties are about the same as Russia's also gets pushed to the back burner.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/3729609-milley-provides-highest-us-estimate-yet-of-ukraine-war-casualties/

Hence why I'm leaning on trusting some US sources that say this war may be going on for awhile.

[ancianita]

7. Close Ukraine's skies, Pres. Biden. Stop Putin's relentless war of attrition. Close Ukraine's skies.