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Ukrainian forces launched one of the heaviest attacks on the Russian rear areas. On the night of October 17, the AFU launched a missile strike at the airfield near Berdyansk, Zaporozhie region, where Russian helicopters were based.
Footage from the airfield confirmed large fire in the area and damage to Russian aircraft. Russian sources that are close to the military also confirmed significant losses in military equipment and some losses in people.
According to preliminary reports, at least six missiles were fired, three of which were shot down by Russian air defense forces. As a result, an ammunition depot was hit, and several helicopters were damaged to varying degrees. The Russian military officials are yet to comment on the attack. The Ukrainian media are likely to share the satellite imagery confirming the damage.
According to the local sources, fire was seen at the airfield for several hours and unusual sound of explosions was heard at the moment of the attack.
Berdyansk airfield in September 2023
Apparently, the AFU used the MGM-140B ATACMS Block 1A (M39A1) ballistic cluster missile that were recently supplied by the US. This missile contains 275-300 M74 submunitions that were reportedly found in the area of the attack.
Spent missile parts of American MGM-140A ATACMS missiles were found on the territory of the airfield in Berdyansk. The missiles have a 165 km range, but were carrying three times more submunitions on board, 950 instead of 275.
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According to some Russian sources, along with ATACMS, the Ukrainian military launched cheaper Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB) also supplied by Kiev’s friends fom NATO.
Both GLSDB and ATACMS can be fired by ground-based MLRS M270 and HIMARS systems already in service with the Ukrainian military. The range of both exceeds 150 km. The most likely launch area was the Zaporozhye region.
In late September, several media reported that Joe Biden assured Vladimir Zelensky about the imminent transfer of the first ‘small batch’ of ATACMS. On the afternoon of October 17, Zelensky thanked “some partners” for supplying some “effective weapons,” obviously speaking about ATACMS.
russia still fights with one hand tied behind its back, this kind of thing will happen again and nothing will change
comment too long for the ignorant nazis who usually appear.
excrement puking zionazi hog
where is clyde and pampers filed academy with their low iq delusions? i miss them hope they are ok…
the russian border is the world’s longest. approx 58,000 km — the success/failure rate of attacks is quite abysmal all things considered. and the rate of success compared with the russian federation is also quite pathetic.
really ? thats the length of the border with ukraine ? how large is the russian army again ?
yeah idk, if they cant protect their air fields then theyre making it too easy for the americans. meanwhile the ukrainian air force is still operational 2 years in.
wondering when we’ll get to see some hangars too. do you need me to come over and make them for you? ill be happy to do it.
a couple of hangars and some sandbags around your choppers and suddenly 0 damage, woah magic
russia needs to finish kiev nazis asap!
putin….but but but i’m trying my best and still nothing happens..😠
russia should arm the palestinians
and the hezzies; plus allow syria to fight unrestricted.
that should have been day one but arabs are stupid before you comment i ask are these not the same people who begged nato to bomb libya and syria ???
it’s russia’s own fault and ignorance. instead of declaring a full war like israel did, she keeps playing games
i’m sure russia anticipated this, yet allowed it to happen.
it is more complex than you think. the title is an indication of the tacit attack from the usa. ukrainian army is gone long time ago, usa and its nato vassals are directly present using ukrainian uniforms.
russia for some stupid reason still operates that these ukrainians are “slavic” brothers you would never see this type of incompetence from nato
“you would never see this type of incompetence from nato”
instead you would see 50x level incompetence from hato, as has been evidenced from a thousand sf articles.
is your attention span that short? long game wins the war, counter response imminent…
and yet every bridge ( two years into operations ) across the dneiper river is still intact would you see this type of incompetence from nato ???
it doesn’t change anything. another day, 500 ukro zombies less, new positions.gained
but the gains the russians achieve come from superior air power. they’ll lose that advantage if americans destroy more aircraft with these cluster missiles.
all your faith in one american weapons system? sad, you have much to learn youngster…
the famous russian patient is nearing masochistic levels.
toto by už nemalo ostať bez povšimnutia. rusko už musí konečne zareagovať. inak darebácky štát usa bude neustále zvyšovať dodávky zbraní a bude hnať rf do otvorenej vojny. ruské vojská by mali vypnúť satelity nad ukrajinou!!! ako odpoveď na dodávku rakiet pre ukrajinu!!!
5 atacms were shot down and 4 glsd bombs ( shot down in skalovsk south of kherson). the video was filmed in kherson airfield 2022 and not in berdyansk.
if the atacms move russian aviation away from the front, as they already did with the fleet, russian ground troops will lose the coverage and air support that are decisive.
this happens because the big boss takes prozac and his red lines are lgbt rainbows.
the kremlin propagandists have already said that these western weapons, like all the previous ones, are just confetti, it seems that russians don’t die on the front either, only ukrainians.
these are lies, watch the video, at least 4 helicopters were completely destroyed not damaged and who knows how many died.
time break out the tactical nukes !
the jew khazar is destroying palestine to the applause of the western golem and yet jewlinsky and his coterie of ussan jews flies around the planet like a pop star. why is kiev not a smoldering pile of rubble like gaza and why is jewlinsky and his ghouls not maggot food since two years ago? russia needs to wake up and finish its war against the evil anglozionazi empire. don’t wait for a nuclear attack from these demons, president putin. it will come if you give them the chance.
russia should take down those american recon satellites and drones. just go for it.
these himars and atacms weapons systems are attached to ukrainian field units.
kill the commander of the unit and his entire family that will stop them from using them