Russia unleashes missile and drone strikes against Ukraine, retaliating for an attack on a tanker

Russia unleashed a missile and drone barrage Sunday across parts of Ukraine that killed six people, Kyiv officials said, as Moscow followed through on its promise to retaliate for an attack on a Russian tanker.

That's what it says, but it conducts missile attacks on Ukraine all the time, so they are empty words...

Putin to his generals:

More women and children, please! I have still not had my fill!

Russia unleashes missile and drone strikes against Ukraine, retaliating for an attack on a tanker

To be a retaliation, Russia would not have to already be sending missile and drone strikes against Ukraine in the first place.

Russia are the aggressors, Ukraine is retaliating. Russia doesn't get to be the victim here, when any deaths of their own people are a direct result of their decision to invade Ukraine in it's 3-day war to take over the country.

The headline is incorrect.

An official with Ukraine’s Security Service confirmed to The Associated Press that a Ukrainian drone packed with 450 kilograms (992 pounds) of explosives struck the tanker that was transporting fuel for Russian forces.

Obviously, a legitimate military target. Ukraine targets military, Russia targets civilians.

Oh no! Don’t blow up their bridges, ships or ammo dumps or they’ll target our children!

Oh wait their doing that anyway?

Never mind. Blast away.

They’re”.

Apologies

“There can be no justification for such barbaric actions, they will not go unanswered and their authors and perpetrators will inevitably be punished,”

Bucha.

As for the tanker, if it was transporting fuel for and to Russian forces, then it was certainly a legitimate target. During WWII the US Navy sunk thousands of tonnes of Axis merchant shipping, including, of course, tankers.

Eastman

action-reaction.

if anyone from you have expected that Russia will do nothing about it must be very naive...

They aren't doing anything different from what they have been doing for the past year, so it's hard to tell.

UA side very desperate as loosing own live forces at record high scale these days and no way to make any dramatic change on front in their favour...while other side is not hurry...dont need to mention abt amount of NATO and swedish weaponry became burned easy...some even with RPG7

Sure, it's difficult going for UA, but they are losing equipment at half the rate of the Russian forces.

Eastman

anyone still believes that UA have any chance to win over Russia?

Yes.

dont you think its about time to stop this conflict now and start to talk about peace instead of funding Kiev junta with money and useless easy-to-be-burned guns?

Capitulating now risks losing the whole of Ukraine. The path to peace is to stand by Ukraine against the imperialist Russian forces.

The Russians hit a blood center with a missile attack killing doctors and nurses.

if anyone from you have expected that Russia will do nothing about it must be very naive...

Russia already did something about it, they invaded Ukraine, which caused Ukraine to retaliate.

If Russia wasn't in a state of droning and missiling Ukraine before this attack, the resultant drones and missiles would be something to avoid. But they were already doing it. So Russia sending more drones and missiles is the status quo, but now Ukraine got to also send some attacks.

That bridge to Crimea is an awfully nice looking target!

Ukrainian authorities, which generally avoid commenting on attacks on Russian soil

wonder why that would be?

cause it’s wrong and against the rules the West set for the proxy war?

Blacklabel

Ukrainian authorities, which generally avoid commenting on attacks on Russian soil

wonder why that would be?

cause it’s wrong and against the rules the West set for the proxy war?

No.

Kyiv's position is going from bad to worse as the counter offensive is a debacle.

Not mentioned (the media is pretending it's not happening) is the significant deterioration of relations between the Kyiv regime and Poland. They are publicly trading insults. And this was always going to happen - the bandera nationalists loath the Poles and vice versa.

The endgame for this doomed regime will not be a pretty picture. Even more grim will be the rump state left behind.

Their latest charade is to hold a "peace summit" in Saudi Arabia and not bothering to invite Russia. Completely delusional stuff.

YamanekoToday  09:49 am JST

But its still a Soviet statue .

The whole thing should be removed

Good point. Purge the legacy of the USSR/CCCP.

An even bigger statue to the Soviet legacy is Crimea.

People should be out dancing on the streets celebrating its removal.

No wars last forever so while more and more human lives are fed into the maw of Putin's war, somewhere in Russia there is an open window waiting for the war criminals or a bunker where they can put an end their worthless lives. I want to believe that Russians will eventually wake up to the enormity of what has been wrought in their name on their Slav brothers and sisters, and that the "good Russians" will finally prevail by ending the bloodshed and bringing freedom and democracy to their benighted land.

dont you think its about time to stop this conflict now and start to talk about peace instead of funding Kiev junta with money and useless easy-to-be-burned guns?

Strong no to that, bub. The only realistic path to end the conflict is to give Ukraine what it needs to drive out the aggressor, Russia.

What you’re looking for is for Ukraine to submit. Nice try. Hard pass from our Ukrainian friend I believe and rightly so. .

Good thing they have their priorities straight to focus on redesigning a statue during the failed counter offensive

heroi are waiting for you so you can show them "how to do" so be realistic and lead by good example.

Is that the best comeback you got? Russia really is in trouble.

Next time that statue should be much shorter and of Zelensky with both hands out.

Ukraine has to cede a buffer zone or face further destruction.

No, it doesn’t. Ukrainians know ceding anything now will only delay at best further aggression, never to stop it.

To believe otherwise is breathtakingly naive.

Interesting development.

According to the WSJ, at the "peace summit" in Saudi Arabia, the Ukrainian side did not insist on the so-called "Zelensky formula", which implies the complete withdrawal of Russian troops from the territories that Ukraine considers its own.

Maybe someone is having a bout of reality.

than they will have no choice just to negotiate with Russia and will save many lives

wanna stop the conflict?

give Ukraine what it needs to roll back Russia

then there will be no fake peace that Russia will turn around and break anytime it wants

Ukraine’s choice to make of course.

Earlier we start training Ukrainian pilots the better