According to Ukrainian sources, the bases and the number of aircraft shot down in the two strikes were as follows
Belaya base:
- 7 Tu-160;
- 6 Tu-95MS;
- 2 Il-78M;
- 6 An-26;
- 2 An-12;
- 39 Tu-22M3;
- 30 MiG-31.
Olenya base:
- 11 Tu-95MS;
- 5 An-12;
- 40 Tu-22M3.
I worry if those numbers are real and Putin will take extreme measures for retribution ...These numbers do seem exaggerated. I doubt they hit 92 aircraft at Belaya and 56 at Olenya. From what it is said in the news, Ukraine claims to have hit about 40 Russian aircraft across all the attacks, which is still a huge number, but nowhere near the above.
Anyway, this attack was amazing and the damage is huge compared to the cost of the attack. We need to see more like this!
I worry if those numbers are real and Putin will take extreme measures for retribution ...
If Russia wants to play „hardball“ they can do. If they wants to escalate with nukes, Wests must Nuke Russia immediately without any warnings.I worry if those numbers are real and Putin will take extreme measures for retribution ...
What about some nukes!?What is he going to retaliate after this?
It isn't. Same Olenya airbase was hit last year as well. Scope of the attack is much larger and sophisticated, but most of the airbases that were hit were also hit earlier during the war as well.This is one of the first of its kind.
Let's be very clear, Putin is not using a nuclear weapon. If he does use a tactical nuke it will immediately draw the much more powerful West into the war, they'll put a "no fly zone" over Ukraine, Russia's land forces will be sitting ducks, and the Chinese will immediately cut ties with Russia as a result of their transgression.What about some nukes!?
Does this include time when Russia helped Romania to become independent from Ottoman empire or Russian help to Romania during 1st WW?Ok, then I will elaborate a little. The Soviet Union has been the spreader of communism throughout the world, which is the ideology that brought the most poverty and most deaths in the XX century.
Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Kim dinasty in North Korea are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to atrocities commited because of communism. Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union, while all the others were enabled by the Soviet Union.
Even today, the closest friends of Russia are countries where brutal dictatorships keep their people in poverty and oppression, such as North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela or Iran.
The Soviet Union and Russia have always supported the worst scum all over the world.