Ukraine Carries Out One of the Largest-Ever Drone Attacks on Moscow as Kursk Incursion Continues

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Ukraine Carries Out One of the Largest-Ever Drone Attacks on Moscow as Kursk Incursion Continues​

Published Wed, Aug 21 20244:17 AM EDTUpdated Wed, Aug 21 202412:35 PM EDT
Ruxandra Iordache@RMIordache

"Ukraine carried out one of the largest-ever drone attacks against Moscow on Wednesday, as Kyiv continues to launch counteroffensives on Russian soil.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it destroyed 45 Ukrainian drones overnight, of which 11were over Moscow, according to a Google-translated update on Telegram.
“This is one of the largest attempts to attack Moscow with drones ever. We continue to monitor the situation,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a separate Google-translated Telegram post, after assessing the strikes resulted in “no damage or casualties at the site of the fall of the debris” in earlier updates reporting the offensives."

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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/21/ukraine-carries-out-one-of-largest-ever-drone-attacks-on-moscow.html

Ukraine attacks Moscow in one of largest ever drone strikes on Russian capital​

By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly
August 21, 20242:44 PM CDTUpdated 3 days ago

"MOSCOW, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Ukraine attacked Moscow on Wednesday with at least 11 drones that were shot down by air defences in what Russian officials called one of the biggest drone strikes on the capital since the war in Ukraine began in February 2022.
The war, largely a grinding artillery and drone battle across the fields, forests and villages of eastern Ukraine, escalated on Aug. 6 when Ukraine sent thousands of soldiers over the border into Russia's western Kursk region
For months, Ukraine has also fought an increasingly damaging drone war against the refineries and airfields of Russia, the world's second largest oil exporter, though major drone attacks on the Moscow region - with a population of over 21 million - have been rarer."

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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-launches-drone-attack-moscow-other-regions-russian-officials-say-2024-08-21/

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Ukrainian troops tell CBS News why small, cheap drones are vital to the incursion into Russia's Kursk region​

By Ian Lee, Steve Berriman
Updated on: August 23, 2024 / 7:35 AM EDT / CBS News

"On the Ukraine-Russia border — CBS News met the troops of Ukraine's 117th Territorial Defense Brigade in the eastern Sumy region as they prepared for another trip to the front line. Their mission is to support Ukraine's military operations inside Russia's Kursk region.
The forces were preparing another drone for a one-way mission — its deadly payload: a grenade attached with cable ties. The simple weapon cost only about $400 to assemble, but it would soon be hunting multimillion-dollar targets."

"Drones have played a major part in the war — for both sides — since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The small, unmanned aircraft now play a vital role in Ukraine's surprise offensive, as troops seize ground inside Russia's western Kursk region.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the incursion is part of a new Ukrainian tactic aimed at creating a buffer zone inside Russia to prevent attacks on Ukraine, and even to turn the tide in the war as his troops struggle to hold the line elsewhere on the long front.
Russia claimed Friday, for the second time this week, that Ukraine had tried to hit Kursk's nuclear power station with a drone attack, decrying what it called "nuclear terrorism." The Russian Ministry of Defense said it shot down three drones headed for the plant.
Ukrainian officials didn't immediately comment on the allegations, which came just days before the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, the IAEA, is due to visit the plant in Kursk. IAEA chief Rafael Grossi has appealed for restraint from all sides to avoid a potentially catastrophic nuclear accident. He's issued many similar warnings and appeals over the last two years, as Russian forces have occupied Ukrainian nuclear plants and missiles and drones have landed near the facilities.
Sergeant Alex, who leads the Ukrainian drone unit that brought CBS News right to the Russian border, said the weapons are hugely important to his country not only because they're cost effective, but because they are "far more effective and precise than artillery.""

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Ukrainian troops tell CBS News why small, cheap drones are vital to the incursion into Russia's Kursk region

As Ukraine pushes a shock incursion into Russia, a drone unit tasked with supporting the mission tells CBS News why the inexpensive weapons are so vital.

www.cbsnews.com

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[Ghoti Ichthus]

If true, bad strategic move on the part of Ukraine, as the Dnieper River flows from USSR to Ukraine

BREAKING: Russian Sources Warn Ukraine is Reportedly Planning to Detonate “Dirty Nuclear Bomb” Targeting Russian Nuclear Power Plants​

by Jim Hoft Aug. 17, 2024 7:30 am

"Ukrainian forces struck a nuclear power plant in the Zaporizhia region on Sunday, an area controlled by Russia.
The cooling systems at the nuclear plant caught fire, sending a dark cloud of smoke in the air above the plant.
According to Wikipedia, the Zaporizhia nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and among the ten largest in the world. It has been under Russian control since 2022. It was built by the Soviet Union near the city of Enerhodar, on the southern shore of the Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dnieper River.
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that a fire broke out at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. The cooling system was allegedly not working."

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BREAKING: Russian Sources Warn Ukraine is Reportedly Planning to Detonate "Dirty Nuclear Bomb" Targeting Russian Nuclear Power Plants | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Ukrainian forces struck a nuclear power plant in the Zaporizhia region on Sunday, an area controlled by Russia.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

 

[Armor of Light]

Blame the U.S for a dirty bomb that Ukraine will use ? Intel supplied by Russia says it's true?

 

[Batman]

I can't help but have turmoil of mixed emotions and concerns on whether we (America) are warmongers or right to supply Ukraine to resist and fight on to possibly their very deep destruction. My church has 5 missionaries from Ukraine that are helping spiritually and charitably but no one has said what is the right thing that should be done from the outside to support or deny assistance for war.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Blame the U.S for a dirty bomb that Ukraine will use ? Intel supplied by Russia says it's true?

That's why the first two words in my post were "If true."

A lot of mistakes, misperceptions, lack of knowledge, etc. can lead to bad reporting. As well as the usual exaggerations, distortions, spins, obtuse or ambiguous wording/grammar, omissions, and flat-out lying.

A conventional bomb that hits a nuclear reactor isn't a dirty bomb, although nuclear contamination could result.

A bomb containing uranium and/or other radioactive materials, which is detonated and isn't intended to produce and doesn't produce, a mushroom cloud, but will create radioactive contamination, is a dirty bomb. Hence the term "dirty bomb."


If one is downwind or downstream of the source of radioactive contamination, it may not matter much whether the bomb was a dirty bomb or a bomb that damaged/destroyed a radioactive target.