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Under cover of darkness on August 4, Russian forces unleashed another wave of strikes across Ukraine, hitting military and logistical targets from the Donbass to the Black Sea coast. The attacks spanned multiple regions, including Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Poltava, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Khmelnytskyi, and Zhytomyr. The combined attack was launched using a mix of missiles, drones, and hypersonic weapons. But the most consequential blows landed in Odessa and the Starokonstantinov airfield, where Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed precision strikes aimed at crippling Ukraine’s combat capabilities.
The Black Sea port city of Odessa and its satellite town of Chornomorsk (formerly Illichivsk) bore the brunt of the overnight assault. Russian Geran kamikaze drones slammed into ELENG LLC, a ship repair and maritime supply firm accused of dual-use activity supporting Ukraine’s military. Footage showed raging fires at the facility, with reports suggesting a container ship, potentially used for assembling naval drones, may have been caught in the blast. Nearby, secondary explosions lit up Chornomorsk Bay, hinting at strikes on weapons caches hidden among civilian port infrastructure.
Odessa’s harbors serve as clandestine hubs for Western arms shipments, funneled through neighboring Moldova. The strikes align with Russia’s broader campaign to sever Ukraine’s Black Sea supply lines, countering NATO’s efforts to arm the Kyiv regime. The attacks followed reports of American investment firms seizing control of Odessa’s grain terminals, underscoring the region’s strategic and economic dependense.
Further west, the city of Voznesensk in Mykolaiv region reeled from reported Iskander-K missile strikes. While details remain scarce, the area hosts critical infrastructure linking Odessa ports to frontline territories, a likely target as Russia methodically degrades Ukraine’s rear-area logistics.
The night’s most significant strikes, however, targeted Starokonstantinov airfield in Khmelnytskyi region. Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, which are nearly impossible to intercept, struck the base for at least the second time in a week. The airfield is a linchpin for Ukraine’s modified Western aircraft, including Mirage 2000 and F-16 fighters adapted to launch long-range missiles. Satellite imagery had previously revealed hardened aircraft shelters and weapons depots at the site, suggesting Russia’s latest attack aimed to destroy parked jets or buried munitions rather than easily repairable runways.
With Starokonstantinov regularly servicing Ukraine’s dwindling fleet of NATO obsolete aircraft, the strikes signal Moscow’s intent to grind down Kyiv’s airpower and destroy the myth of Western almighty aircraft. The repeated hammering of this strategic airbase highlights a brutal calculus: every destroyed hangar or runway delays Ukraine’s ability to challenge Russian air dominance, buying time for Moscow’s creeping advances on the ground.
ukraine dwindles as empty western armory’s are emptied
obviosly russia wants to free odessa,
so russia can have a direct way to
transnistria.
and ukraina export by sea will finish.
i have a question to both the pro western and pro russian crowd.
how is it that we have seen in the past that the usa wreck the supply lines and military infrastructure of countries like iraq or yugoslavia in short order while russia keeps howling missiles at ukraine and there is no sign of visible chaos among the local troops. are the urkainen systems more redundant or does russia just shoot at things hoping to hit something important?
the footage/propaganda you are viewing is either a) from old or outdated video clips, or b) from the imperial skunk works at cia/langley… the ones that brought you the “official” apollo moon landing, or the skud missile strikes from a studio in atlanta georgia with charles jaco “reporting”…
do not forget the official trick movie in “nine eleven” ! you have a official bandit tribe ruling white people, a blend of khazars, nazis, christianity and their tool, fictional jews mass murdering the real jews, for to finally take over their identity and their land. mr putin should test a “nuke”, so not the nazi technocrats, and the mentally ill nazi einstein have foul him about their existence. its a thought, when the jews counted zeros, and told you they was “communists”.
my question to you is whether either iraq or yugoslavia/serbia received an almost endless supply steam of weapons and logistics from allied superpowers (eg ru china) or some pack of coalition partners? now it’s not a limitless stream of weapons and funding, but a very large one, on the order of $1 trillion (exceeding that if you count funds and weapons funneled in post 2014 maidan).
to add to the above, the collossal scale of this support stream is directly connected with the nearly complete evisceration of wealth of the once very affluent middle classes of the eu and us, and the descent into unsustainable debts (eg. $35t)
keep watching the electronic boards on wall street as the biggest default of any sovereign government is ready to buckle in the next 2 weeks with the bis demanding that they hand over the au and ag…. i see dead people. and (hint) they ain’t russian!
“complete evisceration of wealth of the once very affluent middle classes of the eu and us, and the descent into unsustainable debts (eg. $35t)”… try $151t with interest -especially if the hat in hand ceremony with the bis this week or next, doesn’t go according to plan.
youghurtslavia got what it deserved.
usa has been cherry picking wars since 1945 and could play the bully against small countries and rice farmers.
yes, and it will not end, before they are ended. do russia, and brics refuse to recognize this simple thing ? they should look at palestine, for to see how the multipolar world work out in real time. defend them, or get a laughing stock.
it is rather simple. ukraine inherited a very good integrated air defense system, which has been reinforced by nato, with some of their best equipments. besides, russia never aimed at destroying all the infracstructure of ukraine, due to political reasons an also economic reasons. do not forget they are half-brothers, although the western ukranians have taken the conteol of the state and hate russians to the core, but that is not all ukrania.
its easier for russia to depopulate the nazis with its back close to home turf while the nazis charge into hostile territory to find their death..
peacelickcok lost in gay americunt bar bleeding anuz
my diapers bleed diarrhea
in amerika we free to be degenerate swallow taliban jizz shine superior jew shoes and scrub their toilets
here sheep better than ugly obese female
go z—end burgerland imperialism
russia must be broken up…hehehehe
amerikunt only gets broken anuz in mmulatto gay burgerland bars–find better gay taliban therapist
the west should try not to sink before thinking about doing things it cannot achieve without committing nuclear suicide.
bullshitting employment numbers (that somehow get revised only lower) and firing people correcting the bullshitting (aka breaking the thermometer) is a clear sign that everything is going in the wrong direction.
your arguments are weak, is this all you can do for vladolf, shouldn’t he expect more of you?
the wests suicide started 1000 years ago, when the cannibalistic state was forced onto white people. now it have avanced from walking cadavers, to no newtons laws in north america. and mass murder in the hospitals. why so quiet about this in russia ? and how do you stop “un” from mass murder again ? it can obvious not stop the genocide in palestine, but it could maybe mass murder again ?
watching natostan burn in the rump ukrapper dumpster fire just makes my day! thank you mother russia.