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In a rare statement, the Ukrainian military acknowledged that a Russian missile strike on a military training center killed at least 12 soldiers and wounded more than 60 others on June 1.
The military did not disclose where the strike occurred, but both Ukrainian and Russian media reported that the 239th Training Center in the Dnipropetrovsk region was the target.
“At the time the air raid alert was announced, all personnel were in shelters, except for those who may not have had time to reach it,” Vitalii Sarantsev, a spokesman for Ukraine’s Ground Forces, said in an interview with Ukrainian media.
The Ukrainian military does not typically disclose official casualty figures. Human losses are treated as a state secret and are a highly sensitive topic in the country.
Following the deadly strike, Ukrainian Ground Forces commander Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi resigned from his post. The commander cited his inability to ensure the execution of his orders as the reason.
“I have decided to submit a report on my resignation from the post of Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This is a conscious step dictated by my personal sense of responsibility for the tragedy at the 239th Training Center, as a result of which our soldiers died,” Drapatyi said in a statement.
“12 dead. They are wounded. These are young guys from a training battalion. Most of them were in shelters. They were supposed to learn, live, fight, not die. My deepest condolences to the families of the dead and all those who suffered,” he added.
Russian media later shared footage of the strike, revealing that it was carried out using an Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile armed with a cluster warhead. Five tents, where troops from the 33rd Mechanized Brigade and the 158th Mechanized Brigade were taking shelter, and ammunition dumb were destroyed by the strike.
The Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile is reported to have a range of nearly 500 kilometers and can be armed with different types of conventional warheads, weighing between 710 and 800 kg. The highly-maneuverable missile is guided by a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system. It can be also equipped with an optical seeker with a digitized scene-mapping area correlator system for terminal guidance.
The Russian military stepped up strikes on high-value military targets in Ukraine in the last few weeks, causing heavy human and material losses. Most of the recent strikes were carried out using Iskander-M missiles.
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how much does an iskander cost? killed 12 lousy people? why not blow up a bridge with it? can’t do that huh? too surgical and precise to do anything strategically useful?
go sign with the russian armed forces so can sort shit out, u fake @ss.
what good would that do, i’d just end up like prigozhin
dead amereicunt is an improvement on ugly stupid obese senile vanya
generalissimo vanya knows everything there is to know in war, and that is why he was given command of the entire ukraine military. that ukraine is badly losing, is not his fault, of course.
losing 2/3 of your strategic bombers to drones parked in a container truck outside the base is pure unadulterated incompetence. losses in the 2022 ukrop counter offensive was incompetence. allowing the kursk attack was incompetence the whole syria mess is massive incompetence dismantling the domestic aircraft industry = massive incompetence nord stream = massive incompetence keeping 300 billion in western banks and allowing them to steal it = massive incompetence
complete bs of course. a handful of planes lost is a hit but it is war and i am pretty sure that russia knows how to build planes. and russia is winning this war while the western friends of weasel vanya are running out of options. it’s always russia’s fault for vanya for some reasons. a bit like he was paid by the west.
over 1/2 the russian black sea fleet has also been sunk, why? what the hell is wrong with the russians?
they still are fumbling about and can’t figure out how to stop the ukrop drone boats. innovation is not allowed the admirals want the ships kept to design spec, the whole military there is turtle slow to respond to threats, innovation is never rewarded in russia
more bs. the black sea fleet fires the same amount of kaliber cruise missiles at ukraine that it ever has. how could they if they lost half their fleet ?
moron americunt lies as usual
how much does it cost to train 12 sas members and 60 western military trained mercenaries, before they carry out assigned exercises?
obviously money well spent
you mean your salary paid by western propaganda organizations ? i pretty much doubt it. it would be more useful to pay you digging holes then fill them.
it’s always russia’s fault in vanya’s nato playbook. but of course vanya has nothing to say about the terrorists attacks from his colleagues. this doesn’t seem like ‘incompetence’ to him for some reason. except this is what you engage into when you lose, of course.
the russian ruling class stinks, they are western sycophants that worship all things western, russia is a hot mess, all the same problems the west has: decimated domestic industry, death spiral birth rates, and mass migration. what destructive nonsense to covet.
the russian military industry produces 4 times as much as the west is capable. the population growth problem is global. things have changed since the ussr,; but the west hasn’t caught up and that is why they engaged in this war they are losing.
americunts are very stupid–vanya proof
all vanya-americunts worship money and tantrum like bitches
yep russian commanders seem to be stupid and weak. russia is getting beaten and it’s going to get worse.
he is taking the bag of money and leaving the sinking ship.
also, ukraine claims they hit 40 russian bombers/jets/etc – ofc so far the russian media claim 9 losses (which is a lot don’t get me wrong but 40 is bs). thinking about it and looking back, russia wouldn’t do anything new-groundbreaking.
btw, the russian delegation left for istanbul to continue negotiations. okay…
ukraine lies a lot and anybody that believe their lies do it at their own peril. it is a standard behaviour for them, as lying for gain in a corrupt society is quite the norm.
but now it is obvious there won’t be any ceasefire at all, on top of the retaliation they will receive in the face.
now why would ukraine wish to sabotage the peace negotiations, that are out of their control? ironic, the timing, they hit two railway bridges, hitting a passenger train and freight train, followed by trying to take out nuclear carriers. the latter allowing russia to deliver a nuclear response. why, just before peace negotiations, if they were at all serious about peace?
i suspect that russia will now finally adopt the international rules-based order and follow clinton’s lead in destroying kiev’s government buildings, tv stations and foreign embassies as soon as the ukrainians finish with their tantrums tomorrow. they might even resort to shoe-slapping on the table while yelling ‘we will bury you’, like that other famous ukrainian, krushchev.
“but 40 is bs” the bs stand for bullshit.
no one believed there would be a ceasefire between them. i said this before but again russia retaliation wouldn’t be dramatic (i don’t see why they would do that). strategic escalation? most likely… remember ukraine invasion of the kursk region of russia? strategic escalation (buffer zone).
but hey who knows what they do really, just wait and see.
i noticed the western media were up and running with the story, whilst ignoring ukraine targeting the railway bridges. out of curiousity, i would be interested to know how many of the aircrafts that were hit, were actually mothballed and how many were in active service? according to internation law and the russian constitution, russia are now legally entitled to use their nuclear arsenal, if they wished to.
they should fire all “satan” missiles on “us”, and convince me about that they actually exist, and works. ooops ! one christian mass murdering unit less. i suppose they cant stand the loss.
msm is a tool nato/cia/mi6 use for a long time (iran regime change, vietnam war, iraq war, afghanistan war, etc). would russia use nuclear weapons? no.
i did read the southfront “report” but we don’t know much yet. however it seems ukraine hit 8 targets. the main problem is that fact that none of these aircraft are produced in modern russia.
tu-95 strategic bombers (5 lost), tu-22 strategic bombers (2), an-12 transport aircraft (1).
if you go back to 1914, rockerfeller and two irish brothers, who ran the left and right daily rags in the uk, set up the tavistock institute of human behaviour. it was based on mind control and psy-ops. they wanted to change the mindset of the pacifist us and uk civilians, so that they would approve of wwi. same crowd using same psy-ops, with full media support.
yep russia going to beg for peace. they know they are in a corner and they are in big trouble. the problems for russia don’t stop when there will be a ceasefire. the west, nato and ukraine will keep up the pressure on russia.
no mention of this in the western media and very little coverage of the railway bridge explosions, in the same media. guess that would not look good, peaceful ukraine targeting trains full of peaceful civilians. however, whenever there is a false flag, the western media is ready with the story. guess that is why they are running articles on the strikes on the russian air force sites.
afu will get revenge by hitting moscow–hard!!!
you are here and i am laughing again thanks another good day😂😂😂
your husband laughs at your little weenie…heheheh
witness the level and wonder if this level is enough to win.
hope spring eternal for the nato bullshiters. eternal waiting being the concept here.
hasn’t lindsey graham and his mate blumenthal, just been visiting kiev and zelinsky? just in time to provide the orders to kickstart operation spiderweb. gosh, it took 18 months to prepare the exercise and all they took out were a few mothballed jets. just like when john brennan turned up in kiev, a few days before the odessa trade union m*ssacre.
these iskander attacks are inevitable, but to plant bombs on bridges and launch fpv drones againts strategic air bases is called incompetence of the russian military&security command which dont protect these resources and material.
2/3 of russias long range bombers destroyed by ukrainian drones and the russians retaliate and kill 12 conscripts.
russia lost a handful of planes, contrary to what bullshiter vanya says, and i’m pretty sure that russia knows how to build planes. but vanya need the salary from the western propaganda organizations ,because otherwise he isn’t capable to do shit. that is called incompetence (ie projection) and being corrupt.
the russians have no ability to replace any long range bomber. all the lines that built those planes haven’t existed for decades. the russians also don’t have the ability to replace the awacs plane, for some reason moscow decided to destroy its domestic aircraft industry, yeltsin and his protege putin call this destruction privatization.
they are building planes right now you moron.
probably the $10,000 $20,000 some oligarch got for selling the aircraft factory to metal recyclers ended up with the 300 billion putin let the americans and eu steal.
it would take the incompetent russians decades to replace those planes, if ever, the english probably planned the whole thing, but the humanitarians in moscow won’t don’t do a thing about it since london is where they all really want to live.
after the end of sale of airbus and boeing parts was stopped, russia just switched to create its own commercial fleet. russia knows how to create of sorts of planes, and creating planes/drones just for shooting standoff weapons would be quite easy and fast for them if needed (it isn’t). the mi6 like the west is still in its image of russia as the ussr.
oof course russian accord ukrainian propaganda has lost all black sea fleet and now all strategic bombers
russia are weak. customs are lazy and are not even checking containers properly. seems everybody in russia looks to be incompetent.
arrivano a murmansk vi stanno facendo il culo.
russian heavy bombers were burning down well today. 🤣
nato and ukraine occasions to rejoice are few and far between. the destruction of ukrainian and nato military potential is a daily occurence.
russian fascists try hard to ignore that humiliation.
ukrainian nazis trying to ignore the destruction of the future of their country by overblowing a small and utlimately insignificant victory.
only humiliation is nato as rus shrinks former ukraine daily
how are your heavy bombers doing today? why is south front so uneasy with that humiliation russia faced today?
every one of them cost russia more than 100 million us dollars. ukie drones of 500 dollars had excellent kill ratio.
one and half year of preparation to perform an operation that destroyed a handful of planes. the next time ukraine will try that, it will have already lost.
sf tries to put the humiliation russian aviation faced today to soviet memory hole. 😂
contrary to what happens regularly with ukraine and nato (cover up, lie, cheat, exagerate), russia tells it like it is and show it. that is the behaviour of those who believe in their cause. the information in readily available.
is the moron mulatto americunt retired burger flipper humiliated again? did taliban ex husband sodomize you again last night?
i’ll bet russian strategic bomber military branch won’t forget the humiliation they were forced to swallow today.
you do not win a war by making you opponent look bad. only stupid people believe that. the next time ukraine will be able to try that, russia will have built new planes to replace the loss of the handful that were destroyed today.
yeah. south front tries desperately forget what ukie drones did today to russian strategic air forces. whole world is laughing at russian military. 😭😭🤣
contrary to what happens regularly with ukraine and nato (cover up, lie, cheat, exagerate), russia tells it like it is and show it. that is the behaviour of those who believe in their cause.
russia has lost around 40 bombers. more evidence coming also via russian social media. it was day of humiliation to kremlin leaders.
of course not. if somehow ukraine could prove this, it would already have done so. it can’t because it didn’t. and ukraine and the west have a regular habit of lying and exagerating to ridiculous proportions. mostly to hide their impotence.
they deserve it, they conduct themselves like fools.
still losing the war while ukraine/nato only can organize flashy operations with a serving of propaganda that lead nowhere but losing the war.
ukrainian drones eliminated today russian aviation worth of 3 billion us dollars. it would take 6 years for russia to build those 30 aircraft they lost.
isn’t it 378 planes ? lots of exageration from nato/ukraine bullshiters to make it look like it was more than the little hit it is. having lost a handful of planes, russia will adapt while ukraine will perfect their skills at receiving missiles and drones in the face.
today i am vanya stan cunt–i squeal like a kunt lying as usual cuz rus troops liberated several more important towns past 24 hours—sumy kharkov buffer grows daily
all the efforts of the russians to create a buffer is a joke, they advance at a crawl.
but they advance while, destroying ukrainian military potential. while your mi6 bosses prefer flashy operations that lead nowhere but losing.
1/3 of russian strategic bombing forces eliminated today. thank you ukraine. 👍
the need of the propagandists to repeat the same absurd bullshit over and over again to desperately try to elevate it to a “fact” is all the proof you need that this claim is wildly exagerated.
at the same time, when you are winning, you don’t need to target civilians. just saying.
another victory for the west thanks to the incompetent russians.
with a victory like that every two years, ukraine/nato will never win. in fact next time they try to pull it off, they will have already lost.
christians sent to death for puppet ukraine , nato gangsters will only find more cannon fodder . iskander missile stockpiles only increase
gli ucraini sanno fare la guerra possono colpire la russia dappertutto vedi murmansk irkush alla frontiera cinese, la russia da inizio guerra ha preso 1 metro a settimana, in ucraina funzionano ferrovie sono usate per andare a kiev comodi, i porti aeroporti funzionano ha armi e soldi, la russia è meglio che firma la resa perché l’hanno fregata ha generali da club e amministratori inutili al presidente raccontano balle il nemico della russia sta dentro la russia.
not attacking the ukrainian civilians is why the ukrainians are in no hurry to die for the regime in kiev. conversely, terrorist attacks on russian civilians just make them more eager to fight to the bitter end. it is a lesson from the history of warfare. kiev is ignoring it at its own detriment.
nonsense, the reason the ukrop don’t want peace is because the russian ruling class gives them no reason to stop fighting
nobody has any idea of what the ukrainian population want. but the numerous video showing the tcc kidnapping people on the streets strongly suggest they are not eager at all to fight in this war. that is called a proof.
happy burning russian bomber day to all rooskies.
it is everyday the destroy ukraine future day.
what video? what you’ve got here is disco music!
this is hardly the time to be bullshitting viewers around!
ukraine and nato just destroyed 3 billion of russian equipment, aircraft, trains and bridges.
at least that is what the propagandists are desperately trying to make people believe. there is only proof of a handful of planes hit. there is not proof that even that handful of planes are completely destroyed and cannot be repaired. if there was proof of any of that, they would proudly display it everywhere. but they don’t. yes, it’s a hit but, as usual, the propaganda is way overblown.
it is nato tactics with the support of so-called deep state featuring those financial oligarchs.