9/7/23
The assessment comes four months into Ukraine’s counteroffensive to reclaim its territory, with particularly heavy clashes taking place along the front lines in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
Despite suggestions Russia’s stockpile is running low, Moscow continues to target Ukraine with large-scale missile strikes.
On Wednesday afternoon local time, Russia launched its deadliest strike on a Ukrainian civilian target since January. A busy market street in Kostyantynivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region was struck, killing at least 17 people, including a child.
Last month, Bloomberg reported that a recently manufactured, undetonated Russian missile recovered by Kyiv forces from Ukraine’s northern Sumy province in June suggested that Moscow’s advanced weapons stock—including precision-guided missiles and rockets—was running low.
Pictures analyzed by StateWatch, a Ukrainian non-governmental organization, and Bloomberg showed that the missile had been manufactured just weeks before it was fired, which is unusual as missiles typically require several months of tests before being dispatched for use on the front lines.
Newsweek has contacted Russia’s Defense Ministry via email for comment.
Publicly available figures indicate that Russia has lost a number of cruise missiles since Putin invaded Ukraine more than 18 months ago.
Data published by Ukraine’s General Staff on Thursday shows the total number of Russian cruise missiles destroyed since the war began stands at 1,455, with 22 destroyed in the last 24 hours. Independent sources give numbers that are more conservative than Kyiv’s, and Russia doesn’t publish figures on its military losses.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense said in December 2022 that it will never run out of Kalibr cruise missiles.
Why would rashists bother to test them when they just fire it with neither purpose nor reason.
Maybe it was only for propaganda. Otherwise, it beats me, too.
Rashist bastards killed a couple whom were selling flowers.
Who they kill has no relevance. It’s the act of killing that gets them off.
Vehemently sickening that this is case with the majority of mafialand.
I still wonder why they would spend such vast amounts of money and then just target western Donetsk with long range missiles?
Because they are morons and they enjoy killing.
Glad you’re all in one piece bro 😉 Welcome back.
Thanks, Red. It was an arduous journey, but I made it in one piece, as you say.
Did you take the bus from Warsaw this time?
No, I took the train, the intercity, to Chelm, and from there a Ukrainian train directly to Kyiv. The intercity was first class but a horrible one, which I will never take again. The Ukrainian train was also horrible. It was a sleeper train and I had to share a compartment with three young Ukrainian women. 😂
LOL, poor Sir Facts….
I’m glad the UA trains are moving, no problem at the border?
The border crossing was quite easy. It was much more pleasurable than when crossing it by bus. I slept until the border guys came by to check the passports, and then slept again until the train started moving again. The whole thing lasted 3 hours, but it seemed like 5 minutes, because you basically sleep through the whole procedure. We didn’t even have to leave the train and get baggage checked, which happens almost every time when you’re on a bus.
Excellent. I’m planning a trip too so I’ll keep that in mind.
Cool. When might you go?
Next trip isn’t until March but I didn’t know the trains were running since they’ve been a target. I learn so much from you, lol
“It was a sleeper train and I had to share a compartment with three young Ukrainian women.”
Sometimes you just have to make sacrifices. 😂
Mykola and Natalia Shyrai
Eternal Memory!!!
They and the others will be avenged!!!