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On the night of January 18th, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched massive retaliation strikes on the territory of Ukraine. In their turn, Ukrainian forces attacked Russian rear infrastructure with drones. The both warring sides suffered damage.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that 46 Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed by Russian air defense forces last night. In particular:
- 18 Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed in the Bryansk region;
- 11 in the border Kursk region;
- 7 in the Kaluga region;
- 5 in the Tula region;
- 3 in the border Belgorod region;
- 2 in the Voronezh region.
Most of Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed but some of them reached their targets. Ukrainian attack again targeted Russian rear fuel depots. As a result of the strikes, a fire broke out at an oil depot in Uzlovskoy district in the Tula region.
According to local reports, at least one Ukrainian drone struck an industrial facility in the town of Lyudinovo in the Kaluga region. A local oil depot reportedly caught fire. No victims were reported as a result of the attack.
Russian oil depots, gas storage facilities and energy infrastructure facilities became the priority targets of Ukrainian attacks in recent months. Their strikes and wreckage of intercepted UAVs, as well as NATO missiles, have damaged a significant number of depots in the Russian rear regions. After recent Russian retaliation strikes on Ukrainian thermal power plants, energy substations, airfields, military facilities, and the largest gas storage facility in Europe in the Lviv region, Ukrainian strikes intensified. However, their results are yet to bring any critical damage to the Russian energy system or economy. Price on the Russian domestic market and price of fuels and lubricants, as well as their export supplies are not affected. The highest price for Kyiv’s strikes with NATO missiles is payed by Ukrainians.
On the night of January 18th, Ukraine came under another Russian retaliation attack. The Russian military confirmed another wave of combined strikes on facilities of the military and industrial complex of Ukraine that was launched in response to Kyiv’s attacks on civilian infrastructure in the Belgorod region with the US-made ATACMS missiles on January 16th.
The Russian military officially confirmed that one of the targets was Ukrainian Luch Design Bureau in Kyiv. This entreprise designed and manufactured long-range guided Neptune missiles and ammunition for Olkha multiple rocket launchers.
‘The goal of the strike has been achieved, all targets have been hit,’ the Defense Ministry summed up.
The Ukrainian media confirmed Russian strikes in the area of the targeted design bureau. The streets were flooded with sewage water. The local mayor confirmed damage and victims.
According to local reports, there were more Russian strikes in the capital and on its outskirts. Fires broke out at different sites in Desnyansky and Shevchenko districts. Explosions also thundered in Brovary.
The Ukrainian military claimed that in total, Russian forces launched four Iskander missiles, two of which were allegedly shot down by Ukrainian air defense. 24 Russian drones out of about 40 UAVs launched during the attack were allegedly destroyed. Moreover, 14 Russian drones were “locally lost”, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. No efforts of Ukrainian air defense allowed to avoid heavy damage across the country.
Russian drones and missiles were spotted in the Kyiv, Cherkassy, Poltava, Chernihiv, Zhitomir, Sumy, Kharkiv, Khmelnitsk, Kirovograd, Dnepropetrovsk and other regions.
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Another industrial facility came under Russian attack in the city of Zaporozhie. According to local reports, at least two Iskander missiles targeted the local Iskra plant, where the Ukrainian military repairs HIMARS MLRS from the US. A large fire heavily damaged workshops of the plant and the administrative building was almost destroyed.
The local authorities also confirmed damage to an industrial facility in Pavlograd.
While Russian missiles and kamikaze UAVs are destroying Ukrainian military infrastructure in the strategic rear, Russian heavy bombs continue pounding the Ukrainian military in the war-torn regions, including in the Kharkiv, Zaporozhie and Dnepropetrovsk regions.
so basically ukraine attacks russia, russia after some days preparation repondsm when russia responds ukraine are ready and launch simultaneous attack. ukraine now have the advantage to retailiate and daily attack because of nato and their endless money supply, support and equipment. rusiia need several days to prepare and then the volley is only one time then must stop for weeks to prepare again. ukraine are getting stronger and the upperhand.
tike tok amerikunt moron tiresome–russia won–burgerland humiliated
only uperhand in hillbilly burgerland is when you are in gay bar w mulatto diek in your mouth–russia won–cope find new homo husband
ukraine have infinete material as long as the west supplys them but they dont have infinete troops. if the west would manage to get some people to send voluntarys ukraine would win until the moment where the russians would be so threatened to turn to nukes and then game over for everyone.
what infinit???
except usa all nato ammo and arms reserve stocks empty.
if donald stops the supply, ukros would have fully naked arses and no nothing within few months, game over.
is that prediction of the outcome of western help based on the successful outcomes in afghanistan and iraq? vietnam? korea? thanks for derping hard when you derp, derpster.
derp.what are ya?
depends. if the destruction rate of western weapons exceeds the production rate, the all so important destruction/production ratio, then infinity will be pretty short lived for ukraine.
a) efficiency of ukronazis attacks about 15 to 20 pct of intrinsic possible force whereas b) the efficiency of russia’s attacks is closer to 75 to 90 pct of avalable efficiency. better weapons better planning.
lol you moron.
most nato members debt to gdp over 100%, poor gdp growth, empty reserve stocks on ammo and armament and whole nato arms and ammo production is below 50% of russian capacities.
so what endless money and equipment supply are you crack drug dreaming of?
without massive borrowing, the us, uk, eu are all teetering on bankruptcy. look it up.
thank you, ukraine. a fiend in need is a fiend indeed.
and what becomes of planned bankrupts? use your brains.
pigs arse troll. has the handler told you to act straight or us the moderator not shadow banning you out now they usually divide their comments into groups so they can control the propaganda as obedient servants.
it’s very clear that the ukrainians have the upper hand. that’s why they should have the ato wrapped up any day now, and the last of the moskals will be driven from the basements in donbas. only took a few hours, just as porky predicted. thanks for derping.
they are actually driving out the russians from the crimea.
my god! i knew it was coming. the baku oilfields are next!
that’s the military strategic point this is the 3rd or 4 th crimean war really from a military angle crimeax russia’s vital naval defense location .
basically ameriku=nts humiliated by russia—this is why dumb peacetiktok anxiously desperately posts famine hysterical lies at south front
you must be doing a few lines with zelensky.
we have many fire watchers in california that can help former ukraine burn faster
there’s this illegal guy that lives in the nyc subways that can help too.
you and your a dozen a day fake names and voting for yourself are as obvious as the crack in bunters story .
you need to study grammatical styles and patterns to do what you’re trying to do. until then, i would suggest that you just shut the fuck up, amateur.
amerikuntland is on verge of bankruptcy–121% debt to gdp —huge layoffs all corporations–half commercial real estate empty —russia thrives; 15% gdp to debt
biden did his best .
i’d hate to read history’s chapters on biden in 20 years.
those chapters will be written by chinese historians.
they will be written by the jesuits just as they wrote chinese history .imo
they used the mafias criminality to exert influence over the teamsters union to make them vote democrat .used sam giancana to do that for them , well ilx joseph did .they did nothing really, planned things, to destroy ths reserve banking system bring in silver dollars and bash the cia bust the church and crown control over america’s finances.
course they were like children thinking things were possible as if in disneyland
he couldn’t have destroyed america much more without getting caught
it will be so whitewashed he will be the hero in shining armour like the kennedies ,portrayed as america’s royal family .and what did they really do ?
firsr, russia is not thriving. ab debt to gpd ratio is a very bad measure since life in the usa is much better than in many of the lower indebted countries including russia. second, if america goes bankrupt, that’s nothing to celebrate for us, because we are next in line, we meaning europe, russia, china. i really don’t understand why bankrupting america would be so good. fortunately, putin is a serious statesman and knows and respects this truth. you not, you idiot.
boris durak smeshnoy
72 violent crimes usa for 1 in russia
because biden imported prisoners and violent criminals from south america with ntentions. venzuslas crime rate has now declined by 72% you weren’t listening properly. imo allegedly
if life so good in burgerland why do amerikunts consume 80% + legal psyche meds annually on earth
because they’re naive and gullible and trust their drs who are the highest paid in the world. because they trust their teachers who are the most brainwashed on earth .imo .
they will indebt the middle classes globally. that’s what a republic dies it means to return to the public, all the debts and liabilities, and to orivatise to the upper class the profits.
dear analina, it’s 15% debt to gdp. time for another 360.
it’s annalena, dude.
it’s anus_luna_tic, far as i’m concerned.
actually, whenever i see her pic, i think of a vat of stinky aniline dye, so it all fits..
it’s any number of names he uses dozens.
and so do i and still wonder why it bothers you so much, you schizo freak.
mobilisation for war increases productivity just like hitler did for germany so the industrialists backed him to begin with .but when they start to see past the bottom line and see the losses coming their way they try to back pedal but its always too late baby .
these attacks are not retributions but part of the ongoing war. just saying🤔
you’ve been just saying for what is it now 15 years
or so ?
what a dumb thing to say .trust you .
paranoia rules your every waking moment.
moreovers very popular with these alleged different authors of the bits of column fillers.
in amerika arsonist is climate changer
in amerika climate freezes–dumb libs say we are roasting
alcohol consumption double in burgerland vs russia—cuz we live in joyless cesspool
by rule of law .
i look forward to no more ukraine and no more ukrainians!!! nazi nato must be annihilated once and fir all!!! long live russia on the incinerated ashes of all her enemies!!!
bojo’s circus will soon be blessed with a tour appearance of the flying oreshniks, a magnificent high wire act. he likes that sort of stuff.
blow the fking ports in odessa already. why are they operational
some could ask how any negotiated peace would be possible with a side seemingly determined to attack russia regardless of any rational balance between cost and benefit. very clearly, ukraine as a nation is suffering far more severely than russia. worse, trump is set to formally treat such nations as vassal states.
no doubt, too, one form of retaliation being considered by russia is to fire without warning on any unmanned military aircraft from a country assisting hostilities that is flying anywhere over the black sea.
that would be a very mild step, i’d think.
russia the neo nazis