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Ateo Breaking reports a major explosion in Severomorsk, a city that services Russian nuclear submarines

 

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Ukrainian media published footage of Ukrainian FPV drone strikes on the Belaya airbase in the Irkutsk region of Russia. Russian Tu-95 bombers were stationed at the Belaya airbase. According to eyewitnesses, a truck pulled up to a gas station, FPV drones started taking off from it, the driver of one of the trucks was found dead. It is worth noting that such an FPV attack cannot be repelled. Due to the fact that no air defense can shoot down FPV drones now. Also, such an attack was not expected in the rear, a well-trained sabotage group was working. It is possible that the group includes Russian residents, it is also possible that the truck contains equipment for remote launch and control of FPV drones. Judging by the video, as a result of the attack, 4 Tu-95 bombers were damaged, most likely destroyed. The Russian Olenya airbase in the Murmansk region was also attacked. The base reportedly had air defense, including the Pantsir air defense missile system, but it cannot hit FPV drones. Eyewitnesses counted 11 FPV drones.

 

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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.

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!
 

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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 ...
 

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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.
Till now , Ukraine fights with handicap. Let Ukraine unleashed the ‚Dragon‘.
 

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This is one of the first of its kind. A very bold attack which may be seen as a great win for Ukrainians but unfortunately I feel like Russia's response will be devastating.
One of the biggest concerns is that the magnitude of a response to an attack that targeted the nuclear capable arsenal of a country like Russia.
This war needs to end immediately!
 

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This is one of the first of its kind.
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.
 

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What about some nukes!?
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.

Any nuclear weapon launched against a serious NATO player would see Moscow and / or St. Petersburgh turned to glass and the people of those cities turned to dust in nuclear retaliation. Nobody wants that.
 

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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.
Does this include time when Russia helped Romania to become independent from Ottoman empire or Russian help to Romania during 1st WW?
 

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The first satellite radar images of one of the airbases attacked yesterday - "Belaya" in the Irkutsk region. Three Tu-95MS aircraft, another one is damaged. And four Tu-22M3 (presumed) were destroyed. That is, at one airfield alone, the losses amounted to 8 strategic bombers.

At the "Olenya" airbase, the destruction of four Tu-95MS and one An-12 was also visually approved during a drone flight. Such estimated losses for Russia after yesterday's attack are 12 stratobombers and one transport aircraft.
 

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