DW: Russia's 'Iranian drones' tear at Ukrainian infrastructure
Russia is attacking Ukraine's vulnerable civilian infrastructure with drones, knocking out power supply and threatening a hard winter. Iran denies supplying the weaponry, but video evidence points to the contrary
For weeks, the Russian military has been flying explosive-laden "Iranian drones" into critical Ukrainian infrastructure facilities and residential areas.
Most of the drones are now intercepted by air defenses, however, according to the British Ministry of Defense, a third still reach their targets.
Ukraine's prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, has said the Russians use "20 to 30 Iranian 'kamikaze' drones" against us every day."
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Update #1: Up to 85% of Russia's killer drones reportedly shot down by Ukraine; at 8-month mark, Zelenskyy calls Russia a 'beggar': Live updates (USA Today)
Update #2: ‘Deadly Drones’: Israeli Expert Explains What Makes Iranian Shahed-136 UAVs So Successful Against West-Backed Ukraine (EurAsian Times)
WNU Editor: I agree with this report that more drone strikes are coming .... Russia Plans To Step Up Ukraine Bombardment With Longer-Range Iranian Kamikaze Drones (Forbes).
2 comments:
Roger is right. When or if the US gets involved, Russia will suffer much worse degradation of infrastructure than Ukraine.
Russian conduct in war is totally disgusting. It is just as wrong, when Russia attacks from a neutral country, Belarus as when North Vietnam attacked from neutral Cambodia. Attacking from a neutral country should get any country thrown out of the UN at the very least.
Is there any doubt that Ukraine would have down better on the southern front, if they had no northern flank to defend?
Russia has performed poorly. An unnamed person keeps harping that Ukraine has more people in the field that the Russians. That is a specious and gaslighting argument.
* Artillery causes by the most casualties. The Russians has more more tubes by (~ 7 to 1) and more ammo. Russia also has more artillery courtesy of its air force too.
When Russia took Severodonetsk and points west, it did so behind a curtain of artillery fire. Now that Ukraine has been given artillery from the West and used it more efficiently than the Russian have used theirs, the Russian artillery has been negated.
The waning of Russian artillery dominance is due in part to Ukraine targeted ammo dumps. Ukraine gets more bang for each shell fired, while Russia is innovative in using the creeping barrage of WW1 and WW2. Russia is also having to resort to buying ammo from North Korea. That smells like losing to me.
Someone once told me that they knew the USSR would lose, when they bought pipelayers from the US. Pipelayer is a simple machine. It is a tracked vehicle with a boom, winch and counterweight. The Russians could not build enough? Stinks of economic mismanagement on a colossal scale. So how about now? Russia has problems finding spare parts for their rolling stock. Looks like losing to me. What is really high tech about a rail car?
I thought Russia was smart in 2014, when the responded to sanctions by banning America pork and built up their pork industry. That created Russian jobs and made Russia a competitor to American pork producers for the Chinese market. After that good strategy the Russian leadership rested on it laurels? Maybe the Russian leaders were too busy grifting.
I expect that if Russians detonate a dirty bomb, it while be at Kherson to prevent a Ukrainian victory. If not there, then at the dam or thereabouts.
Ukraine does not have to take Kherson. All they have to do is mask it and let the Russian unites die on the vine. "Masking a fortress" is a term used more in the 18th or 19th century. Masking Kherson is a headache for Putin. The problem for the Russians defending Kherson is not just the wide river to the east. The terrain east of Kherson is unforgiving.
With this war I didn't see any good obectives are met.
Both failed. Will fail harder if it will not stop.
Stop the war and just go home.
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