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The target of a recent Russian missile strike that targeted the port of Odessa was a shipment of drones meant for Kiev forces, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on May 24. .
“On May 23, crews of Iskander missile systems carried out a group missile strike on a container ship that was transporting military assets to the port of Odessa, as well as a warehouse storing containers in that port. The ship was carrying about 100 containers with military cargo, including sea drones, UAVs and ammunition,” the ministry said in its daily briefing.
“As a result of the fire impact on these targets there was a secondary detonation of the ammunition and containers that were stored on the pier, as well as a heavy fire,” it added.
At the time of the strike, Russia media reported that some 20 Ukrainian troops were killed or wounded in the strike. However, Ukrainian media said that just one person was killed.
The main armament of the Iskander system used to carry out the strike is the 9M723 tactical quasi-ballistic missile, which is said to have a range of nearly 500 kilometers.
The highly-maneuverable missile can be armed with different conventional warheads, including a cluster munitions warhead, a fuel-air explosive enhanced-blast warhead, a high-explosive fragmentation warhead, an earth penetrator for bunker busting and an electromagnetic pulse device for anti-radar missions.
The missile is guided by a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system. It can be also equipped with an optical seeker with a digitized scene-mapping area correlator system for terminal guidance.
Russia stepped up strikes on Ukrainian military targets in recent days in response to repeated attempts to attack its territories with drones. Despite taking heavy losses, Kiev forces are still trying to attack Russian territories, likely looking for a media victory to make up for recent defeats on the battlefield.
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“mota olle i grind” its called in sweden :-)
ukraine dumb like israel, israel dumb like ukraine
zionism in a nut shell…
a truly positive and forceful response to ukrainian drone attacks on russian civilians -just odessa to take now which has a russian slav majority.
to end this war without taking odessa and kharkiv is unthinkable for russia.
many circles expect this to end the state of ukraine and snuff out khazarian aspirations completely, this might mean russia wipes out nato as well, and regime change turkey, and disband israel permanently. the uk castrated itself allowing rothschild banking to leech off its advantage til now, the uk is a shambles.
3 years and 3 months of war full of russian military incompetence but still these kremlin propagandists believing in (?)this war has been russian success. 😂.
these russian fanboys are mostly american right wing fascists. most of comments coming american evening time (=european nighttime). same trash of the saker website until that fool closed his forum (likely he was ashmed of russian failure)
ukrianain fanboys are neocon socialists ?
yet another manifestation of the stupid swede syndrome.
very funny joke you make, ha ha ha ha, i laugha at you small brain thinking…
we have another group of generalissimos that are not up to date to the current narrative. in 2022, it was “russia has already lost”. now it’s : “we better spend 800 billions euros in weapons because russia frighten us”. of course it’s all lies. we know because we know who is whining for a ceasefire.
merz and macron are really scared of those shovel wielding russians. their anti-shovel programme comes in at a cool 1 trillion euros.
designed and prosecuted with purpose that is unique to the long-term interests. what is so hard to understand here?
it was a french de facto ship
they had to change the manifest to a cargo of french fries after the attack.
russia controls much of the black sea ? more to come