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Russian air defenses intercepted 12 American-made MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles which were launched by Kiev forces at the Crimean Peninsula over the night of August 15 and 16, the Ministry of Defense announced.
“Air defenses were used last night to deflect a group strike by 12 ATACMS missiles made in the United States on the Crimean bridge. All the missiles were destroyed,” the ministry said in a briefing.
During the attack, RIA Novosti reported that traffic on the Crimean Bridge was temporarily blocked. However, no casualties or material losses.
Also overnight, Russian air defenses intercepted five suicide drones over the Black Sea. Two uncrewed suicide boats which were moving in towards Crimea were also destroyed by naval forces. Video footage showing the engagement in the Black Sea was released.
The Kiev regime has attacked the Crimean Bridge more than once since the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine two years ago. In recent months, the regime intensified attacks on Crimea and other Russian regions in an attempt to make up for the recent defeats of its forces.
Last month, Kiev forces launched a number of ATACMS missiles at Sevastopol. Submunitions from the missiles’ cluster warheads hit a crowded beach, killing four civilians and injuring more than 150 others. Russia said that the U.S. was complicit in the bloody attack.
The latest attack on Crimea and its bridge came as the Russian military was working to eliminate a large Ukrainian force that infiltrated the Russian region of Kursk earlier this month.
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syrskyi (aka vladimir ilyich boyarsky ) is dead. rest in piss traitor
how deluded, never recall hearing him die. he just announced an office in kursk.
you are a bot, you cant hear anything
did russia regain control of kursk? no? are ukrainians now occupying russia? i thought russia had reinforced their borders with ukraine.
ultimately the ukrainians are not occupying but merely fertilizing the soil. they have officially already had to remove 3 brigades due to combat losses. thousands are already dead on the ukrainian side in this area. their material losses are far higher than what we saw in the defeated and failed counter offensive of summer last year. they have lost hundreds of vehicles already. there was an ambush the russians did the other day and the entire convoy destroyed.
there was an ambush that the russians did the other day, where an entire ukrainian convoy was destroyed.🤨🧐😮💨 sure……
the russians dont have enough troops to defend russia and putin refuses to mobilize
putin doesn’t refuses to mobilize, he just smart enough to know that if he was to fully mobilize, the russian population would start a revolution and chop his head off, like what happened in france during their revolution! putin knows the average russian citizen does not want to be drafted in a war where their leaders are complete bloody idiots, that will do everything in their power to sabotage russia from winning the war!
how are the ukrainians coming with that defence? just about got the last moskal out of donbas?
indeed, and soon they’re marching on moskow to rid it of moskals too. drinking too much mescal will make ukrainians and gay senators dream the darndest things.
i heard the same nonsense from the albanians in kosovo and then in macedonia. they were all on this greater albania trip 25 years back, while taking travel tips and guided tours from the cia. cia bad man, make much trouble in world.
did you saw the ruskie bomber falling out of the sky? it was beautiful 😘 imagine them fighting nato hahahahaha
how the hell has russia allowed the ukranians to have a functioning port years into a war is ridiculous.
just as ridiculous as the unscathed bridges over the dnieper.
see my above reply because the leaders of russia both the politicians and the military chain of command, are complete bloody idiots! that have no idea on how to fight a war, and are complete cowards. that have allowed n.a.t.o. to cross every redline, they have mentioned, both in press conferences and on the news. incompetence and cowardice is at the heart of why the russians can make sound military decisions, such as destroying ukrainian port infrastructure among many others!
well at least before they were attacking every other day, now its every couple of months. hurray! keep at it boys n girls…. soon netflix will produce many movies and make fortune from this entertainment
i don’t think so russia is the underdog in this war, even putin admitted it when a western journalist was interviewing him. that russia only has like one or two news sources, while the west has dozens of news sources. the west completely controls the informational war in this conflict, and there will never been any movies made that are pro russian. that is unless russia destroyed the west with nuclear weapons and suddenly came out on on top as the victor!
but as long as russia is the loser in this war, the only movies you can expect from netflix and hollyweird are the same movies, with the same narrative that they do for ww2 movies, with the germans for example. where all of the germans are fat and total losers, and one allied soldier is able to single handly kill an entire platoon of german soldiers, and then proceed to bang a pretty blue eyed, blond german woman!
us and nato terrorists
us and nato nazis hard at work; however the bulk are getting ground down in kursk. we will see other players now enter on russians side from the bricks and sco.
kind of makes one wonder “why” russia has not take out the bridges over the dnipro river in the last two years??? that would end resupply to eastern ukraine and bring the war to an end quite quickly.
because putin is a devil worshipper along with the other western elite! except putin has been given the task by the elite to appear as the good guy and the one that is standing up to the very elite he serves! russia was never meant to defeat ukraine in a quick victory, but for the war to be prolonged as long as possible, where the elite of the west and in the east can make maximum profits of the war! putin is no saviour, he’s like his father, satan. that masquerades as a angel of light!
the main problem for russia as a nuclear power is that the barking dog putin has definitely lost the respect of nato, and this is very dangerous for russia and its allies, as well as for multilateralism. nato’s escalation will continue to increase, the situation for russia will become increasingly difficult, and the consequences will be unpredictable.
man, that nato is scary! you wouldn’t want to stand behind them when they turn to flee like they did in afghanistan! stampede!
ruskies are fleeing their own soil while soiling themselves. that s a yuuuge amount of cope coming from a vatnik. can t liberate kursk from ukrainians but can fight nato? ahahahahahahahahahaa
hehehe. more junky american weapons bite the dust. if there is a ww3 usa wont fair well nor nato with those weapons. hehehehe
now i fully understand why nato was afraid to let russia join it. who would want american weapons then?
refusing to destroy ukrainian bridges while russians flee invasion is nothing less than treason.
relax….the ukrainians are spreading themselves thin….
desperation increasing among the ukrainians. even more now rumors about a dirty bomb are increasing. they know they’re screwed on the battlefield and at the negotiation table.
russia has humiliated nato–dumb amerikan doubles prozac and fentanyl
russia needs to cut off the head of the snake..!
the snake is a hydra but with one fathead doing all their thinking.
then nuke davos… during “party” season..
dobrá práca. to, že prehnitý západ pod vedením usa a eu budú fašistom na ukrajine dodávať všetko čo majú bolo od samotného začiatku hneď jasné. preto sa rusko potrebovalo pripraviť a hlavne prispôsobiť sa týmto novým okolnostiam. myslím, že sa tak už teraz konečne stalo. vpád fašistov na ruské územie rozviazalo ruky rusku!!! ani br osn teraz nebude môcť rf obviňovať, keď rusko pritvrdí. a to pritvrdí, svetu mier!!!
the kiev junta gets more desperate by the day.