An RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft like the one shown is currently flying non-military mapping missions over South, Central America and the Caribbean at the request of partner nations in the region. (U.S. Air Force photo/Bobbi Zapka)
Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov has ordered the military to present plans on how to “react to provocations” concerning NATO’s increasing involvement in the Ukraine conflict, the Defense Ministry said on June 28.
The ministry noted in a statement a recent “increased intensity” of U.S. drones over the Black Sea, saying they “conduct intelligence and targeting for precision weapons supplied to the Ukrainian military by Western countries for strikes on Russian facilities.”
“Such flights increase the probability that incidents may happen in airspace involving Russian military aircraft and the risk of a direct confrontation of the alliance with the Russian Federation,” the ministry warned.
NATO members will be held responsible in the event of any such incident, the ministry added, without elaborating on how the Russian military could react.
Last week, Russia accused the U.S. of sharing responsibility with Kiev for a deadly strike on a beach in the Crimean port city Sevastopol.
The strike, which was carried out using American-supplied MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles, claimed the lives of four civilians, including two children, and left more than 150 others wounded.
The U.S. was to blame because it helped Kiev forces deploy the weapons, the Russian MoD said at the time, alleging that American military specialists are directly involved in programming missiles before they are fired at the Crimean Peninsula.
Still, Washington distanced itself from the attack, claiming that Kiev forces unilaterally decided what to do with Western-supplied weapons.
The U.S. response didn’t satisfy Russia. On June 27, the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said that Moscow was taking retaliatory measures in connection with Washington’s involvement in the deadly missile strike on Sevastopol.
“The tragedy that occurred in Sevastopol will certainly not remain and does not remain without our response. The nature of this response is a matter that I am not at all authorized to discuss. I think that the idea of certain permissible scenarios is also on the minds of many in the West. They should feel the extreme risks associated with such actions,” the senior diplomat said during a Rossiya-1 TV broadcast, according to the TASS news agency.
Commenting on the likelihood of the Russian side using tactical nuclear weapons in response to the strike, Ryabkov pointed out that “the Russian president, as the supreme commander-in-chief, makes such fateful decisions.”
“The scenarios in which this is permissible are described in detail and precisely in the basic documents. Everything correlates with the current situation,” the senior Russian diplomat emphasized.
All in all, the U.S.-enabled Ukrainian strike on Sevastopol will not apparently go without a serious Russian response.
Russia is apparently looking for a response that would not only deter Kiev and its backers, but also prevent the reputation of the tragedy. One way to do this would be to shoot down NATO drones spying on Crimea over the Black Sea.
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man i’d hate to be a anglo-american goyim soldier, smh and knowing some of these dudes be walking around with a “bad@ss” mentality.
putin would poop his pants twice before allowing his army to shot down single one us drone. on the other hand, he is fine with killing 1000 russian soldiers per day. sometimes on the black sea flagship.
russia can fly drones over the black sea also. and if there are collisions that’s what happens in crowded airspace.
are you mistaking him for diaper biden? remind me, how did biden handle the normanday 80th anniversary? how did biden handle the debate last night?
the acting president blinken as the advocato diabloli of the dollarempire is handling himself very well.
he is handling himself so well, that nobody wants to talk to him. how did he get on when he tried to see xi?
the democrats have golden opportunity to dump biden, and send him scapegoat to the desert with all his negatives. a 1992 bill clinton type candidate will be nominated and will devastate trump in second debate. this new democrat will back nato and oppose russia. he will win. biden out, trump down for the count.
two geriatrics gone.
yeah, michael obama. ticks all the boxes, apart from the disabled one.
on monday a us spy drone has been shot down by russia. more to follow. there is nothing the us can do to stop it.
and in the next day the coon austin called belousov and begged for more ‘professionalism’
and belousov responded with ‘sorry, i’m not an affirmative action appointee. no can do.’
for a paranoid freak old propaganda stuck in him best.
russia just shot one doen. yemen and syria recently shot some down too.
they’re big and vulnerable.
but it’s ok. the american defense contractors are making profits. that’s all that matters. that and making jews happy.
yep, but stupid people believe everything they want to hear.
russia is actually bringing soldiers to life and have more now than when they started. lol
indeed they do. meanwhile, zelensky’s goons are trawling back alleys and picking up drunks.
whilst he is in his miami mansion, playing the piano with whatever tools come in handy, and all the biden family medications his nose can sniff.
this is nafo cope.
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such as ? dumping fuel on them ? use $70 million worth su35 as a hammer and crash with the drone midair, possibly kiling russian pilot ? so many options. i hope they will not wave welcoming us flags on them.
that pilot was good. loved it. glad to see you appreciated his skill also.
reading your comment, reminds me of how a russian wicker basket took out the uss donald cook, over in the black sea, back in 2014. now that was seriously funny. how many us sailors tried to resign?
its just sad the russian government does not want to let their fleet and army use their high tech systems.
saving that for a little surprise for nato if they get a bit over confident. but they just like taking on pretty much unarmed enemies
i don’t know. when the lights went out, not a few sailors took advantage and sneaked some nooky in the men’s room.
guess that explains the screamers, when that russian wicker basket zapped the little ship.
yes keep downing the us drones over the black sea please
rus hasn’t started downing them! it has just reluctantly admitted what everyone else has known for months.
even so, this ‘order’ merely asks for meetings and maybe a report or two that will then remain stuck on the shelf.
meanwhile usa/nato/ukranazis will keep attacking crim/rus/donbass for fun and hundreds will die while belousov is on holiday reading ‘the economist’ instead.
poor crimea, poor donbass, they don’t deserve these krmln jerks.
at this point everyone all over the west aka empire of lies is wishing they had a leader who loved their countries as much as putin loves russia. instead all we get are puppets of jewish oligarchs butchering kids pretending sex you are born with can be changed.
because they won’t see ptn for what he is. the false dichotomy where ptn is either (1) an ‘evil monster ready to invade europe’ (promoted by west’s neolib leaders/media), and (2) the one you propose (also galloway, ritter, lavelle – the usual ‘alternative’ but still pro usa mob) is bs, neither is true.
ptn is pro west and scared of stepping on toes. he is no military leader. his dithering has already cost a million lives and will destroy rus, syr (and probably eu).
yeah he’s a bad guy. trying not to start a nuclear war.
what a creep.
bad? naive?? ill advised???
if p was concerned about n-war why invade ukr? did he think calling it a ‘s.m.o.’ would fool/appease the w*st, which was looking for any chance to hit rf? “it’s not an invasion, mr b, it’s only an s.m.o!!” really?
for 8 years ukr enlarged its military while rf obligingly waited. the rf wasn’t up to the task; it failed to secure dnbss borders let alone achieve stated s.m.o ‘aims’. this miscalculation alone was a potential trigger for n-war,
how can you invade a nation with no borders? remember, ukraine has never ratified there borders, in accordance with international law, since the fall of the soviet union. meaning, that they are back to pre-1917 borders. back in 1917 novorussia was in russia, till lenin gifted it to ukraine and crimea was also part of russia, till the ukrainian bolshevik gifted it to ukraine.
hell, these so called ‘leaders’ in the west are so far gone on the moronic scale, that i resigned myself to a slow death by radiation overdose and starvation months ago.
soft psy-ops, trying to turn the russians against their leader. in the meantime, they remember what life was like, back in the 90s, with the oligarchs in charge. sort of where ukraine is at the moment. no wonder president putin’s ratings are over 80%. whilst the us has biden to lead the way. how did he do last night in the debate?
remind me, how much territory has returned back to russia, that the bolsheviks gifted ukraine? remind me, what has happened to the ukraine gene pool? remind me, how is the us going to service their $35 trillion national debt, now that saudi has dumped the $us?
nothing like obfuscation, eh? remind me how much nato has expanded under ptn? how many useless resolutions has lvrv placed before the us-owned un? how many isr jets has rus shot down over syr?
oh, and fyi the real us national debt is nearer $50trn, but it doesn’t matter if us debt was $100trn, as its creditors will never call it in.
ps: saudi will come back to the usa, it’s just a lover’s tiff.
remind me, those eastern european nations that came out of the warsaw pact and soviet union, with ‘professional victim’ status and begging bowls, why did they rush to join the soviet eu, which led to joining nato? how much do each of those members spend on defence, including to nato and they expect the three members of nato with nuclear weapons to protect them? pretty cheap way to get hold of a nuclear deterrent, is it not?
yep, it’s a fascinating study in political piss potting to see how all of the unconstitutional edicts of the dictators of the evil empire, south ossetia, crimea etc. etc. all of a sudden carried more weight in the west than international law itself. i’m suspecting that western leaders have been secretly admiring lenin, stalin and krushchev all these years in secret.
lenin and wasn’t he related by marriage to one of the city of london banking families? stalin, who was georgian and krushchev the ukrainian bolshevik. bolsheviks, just like the nazis, were created by the city of london, and the tavistock institute of himan behaviour, only we were never told that part of the script. same crowd who are still after the natural resources of russia.
rus started downing them on 24.06.2024
and in the next day the coon called belousov and begged for more ‘professionalism’
rus and usa still can’t/won’t confirm a mig31 shot down a rq4 global hawk on 25/06 (not 24)*.
rus,however, did attack missile launch facilities/storage in odessa/mykolaiv on 24/06, as ever far too late for crimean victims of atacms. rus reacts – but is never proactive.
(*) even if reports are true, the very fact it took so long for rus to take (let alone acknowledge) this action is in itself shameful.
so would you have preferred russia to have attacked the us, using emotion? sort of like the us would react? most of us are more than happy that the ‘adult in the room’, the world’s leading statesman, thinks logically and without emotion, when deciding on a response. tomorrow, president putin is holding a meeting with his security team and they can have more fun responding after the nato summit.
when maxwell smart biden fumbles a thought, he screams ‘the russkies have hacked me again.’ and issues a defcon two into his shoe.
over at the normandy 80th anniversary, didn’t they catch on camera, dementia joe issuing more than a defcom 2 into his shoes. those ‘nato strength pampers’ sure come in handy.
‘…using emotion?’
using strategy and weapons rf should have reclaimed the donbass in 2014 before fake minsk deals, ukr military enlargement and us withdrawal from afghnstn. hundreds of thousands of slavic people would still be alive, dnbss/crm citizens could be living without daily fear/horror and nato wouldn’t have dared say “boo”.
rf should be proactive in protecting its people and terrifying to its enemies – screw the nato summit. weakness and deference only emboldens the west.
guess you have no conception of the difference between acting in anger/emotion or reacting in a logical and rational manner, once you have thought through the various scenarios. guess that is why russia is running rings around the hato clowns.
2) using us standards, what would russia have gained back in 2014, going for full ‘carpet bombing scenario’ when donetsk and lugansk voted to be indedpendent autonomous federations of ukraine, with emphasis on independent? 2022, they voted to go home to russia. would it even have been legal, according to international law?
3) by the way, ukraine 2014 was in a civil war, where the government was at war with the russian speaking citizens of ukraine. poroshenko was bragging about the children of eastern ukraine being educated in dungeons. saakashvili was the governor of odessa and doing well with the ‘black market’. remember saakashvili, the georgian president who thought it was a good idea to invade the russian dependent territory of south ossetia, back in 2008?
4) then along came the actor zelinsky, of zionist faith, yet his mentors were also of the same faith, whilst also being full nazi supporters. $oro$, who claimed that the best days of his life, was when he was a nazi collaborator, back in hungary in the 40s. plus, kolomoisky (now lingering in prison) who despite being the head of the european j*wish community, also funded the nazi azov battalion.
we all know this, such bumbling doesn’t address the core issue that rf failed to intervene early enough under international law to protect the russian speaking people of donbass from kiev nazis. ptn was out thought and outbluffed by the west – period.
ten years on he now can’t even protect the people of russia from regular nato/ukr attack, which is the primary duty of any leader.
of course the west is quite happy with ptn, which is why they doth protest too much about him.
‘us standards’? once again you go off at a tangent to create another false dichotomy. no need for carpet bombing, just an overwhelming rf military presence in dpr/lpr to deter nazi shelling and protect independent citizens, as per un charter.
even ptn openly admitted (24 feb 22) that rf should have intervened much earlier in dpr/lpr.
was he wrong as well?
you miss the point. back in 2014 donetsk and lugansk voted to be independent autonomous federations, with the emphasis on independent. in accordance with international law, russia would be in violation, if it went to war with ukraine, which was in a civil war. in 2022, donetsk and lugansk voted to join russia. which allowed russia to respond.
instead of inventing facts to fit your agenda try doing a little research before commenting.
a) the donetsk and luhansk oblasts began formal secession april 7 2014 in parallel declarations of independence (labelled a “coup against kiev” by ukr and west). on may 10 and 11 2014 referendums were held in both areas on whether the populations supported the respective declarations. the results were drp 89% yes, lpr 96% yes.
b) from may 2014 both newly independent republics were free to invite rf (under un rules, just as syr had done) to protect their borders and people, which they did. ptn acknowledged this in feb 2022 but the rf response was cautious, wary of the west’s refusal to recognise the drr/lpr declarations (contrasting with nato’s wholly illegal actions in kosovo, march 1999). 14,000 dpr/lpr citizens were killed by ukr nazis 2014-2021.
c) on 24 feb 2022 when rf commenced the smo both dpr and lpr were still ‘independent republics’ and not part of rf! the smo timing was triggered by zlsky’s withdrawal of ukr from the budapest memorandum (19 feb 2022) in order to have nato nukes placed in ukr.
in september 2022 dpr/lpr finally voted to join the rf; along with kherson and zaporizhzhia oblasts (often forgotten). this secession is contested by the west, and legacy media (wiki etc) declared it ‘illegal annexation’.
too many americans suffering from down syndrome as it is. maybe there’ll be enough now to fill out the afu’s ranks. they’re particularly desirable in ukraine because they smile at you when you send them to the trenches and thank you when you steal their pay.
then when they meet the russians, before ending up as the special ingredient in the beyer-monsanto compost, their last words are ‘have a nice day’. they cannot even come home in an official body bag, as the voters would not be able to handle the facts.
in the meantime, nato gives away all their weapons and toys to ukraine, which get taken out by russia. us has $35 trillion debt to service. sanctions do not work and the global majority, including russia, refuse to trade in the $us. the eu, led by unelected nazis, is in freefall and there is no gene pool left in ukraine. yep those nato member nations are winning? still never mind, sure they can get the luxemburg forces, to send plenty of their men and women to ukraine, to protect kiev.
i can’t wait for those 500,000 “something” nato irregular brain dead to cross the threshold into russia… not only good for the gene pool, but it means more women back in the west will have better choices for procreation given how low iq stupid they were with their “first choices”!…
can you imagine those nato forces, on holiday? will they focus on the pride parades, and new, but comfortable stilettos or will they be more focused on recovering from their gender re-alignment surgery? how will they handle it when meeting russian forces, who refuse to use the correct pronown?
hey’re always on “holiday”!… watch the movie in the “valley of elah”. which is the personification of everything that is the u.s. armed forces post-9/11 that lives day to day on drugs just to get through each “day” for all of their sins!
all i know is i was stupid enough to watch a few minutes of video last year of us army personnel holding a beer drinking contest out of dildos attached to a plywood wall and not a female in sight. i should sue them just for posting that.
cheers, will give the video a miss. no doubt part 2, coming out soon, will have zelinsky playing the piano, as they sup their beer from those dildos and where is the chocolate fountain when needed?
it takes a special kind of retard to want to fight for nato.
putin needs to be careful the russians don’t start calling him stalin they have suffered more than enough!
stalin defended ussr from a massive unprecedented nazi invasion. the bravery and sacrifice of the ussr people and military (30m+dead) was the main reason nazi germany was then eventually defeated. only when operation barbarossa started to stutter did the usa decide to withdraw visible support from der fuhrer and join with the allies. calling ptn ‘stalin’ is a complement he simply doesn’t deserve.
stalin was georgian and you appear to mistake president putin with zelinsky, the dictator.
well, what do we have here…western teacher’s pet? go stand in the corner. your recess bell’s about to ring.
soft psy-ops, nafo trolls trying to run narrative to try and provide discourse and turn the people of russia against their president. so last century. in the meantime, they have caught up with the us presidential debate and seen what biden is like, behind the mask. makes their president come across as absolutely perfect.
russiа shot down one on monday. and most likely 2 more during this week. good work
well, they’re not really hard to shoot down. an ancient s-25 would be more than enough to take out two at a time.
now this is interesting:
currently used as targets for training sam systems. strizh target-missile (system s-25m) in service as of 2011. firing more than 11 000 missiles.
how many thousands do they have left they could use to ‘train’ patriots with, i wonder.
if they weren’t concerned about where these would land, like the ukrainians never do, they could bleed all the patriot missile stocks in the world dry in a week.
mother russia, must take a stand and blow out the scoundrel, whom with their lap dogs providing targeting intelligence to the nazi regime.
the domino is not so much ukraine which has gone to the dogs , cannon fodder for the master across the atlantic, which he the honourable putin and his leadership are fully aware of.
but rather the puny state , the abomination , the frankenstein state that’s been planted there to reign in the arabs black gold with the toxins dollar as the base currency.
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it’s high time russia respond to provocations of us and her nato allies. shoot dow these droons flying over the black sea to let them know you meant business.
not the right time at the moment. why do it before the nato summit, and give nato a reason to take route in ukraine? besides there are so many ways to skin a cat and russia seems to be doing the latter quite well.
because russia is losing tons of equipment and men. which putin doesn’t care about.
to not fight back in a war is just plain stupid. or orchestrated.
projecting as you confuse zelinsky with president putin. is there any gene pool left in ukraine, since the cookie monsters turned up in 2014?
i suspect the russians are about ready to sucker nato into attacking just like they’ve been suckering the afu into attacking. i’d bet that there’s nothing conventional nato can throw their way that they can’t handle.
has hato got anything left to fight with? think they sent it all to ukraine, for the russians to blow up. i wonder when it will dawn on hato that they have lost?
to those who may be curious, n in cyrillic is an h, hence ‘hato’. that’s beside hato’s emotional reaction to helplessness.
must admit, i am curious as to the response from russia. president putin is due to meet the security council and cannot see them offering a response before the nato summit in july. nato is desperate to get russia to up the ante and give them reason to move into ukraine. fortunately, russia is fully aware of all the tricks they are being exposed to.
yea, it’s much better to give your enemy the time it needs to build up its forces and allow them to attack you.
russia has their tails between their legs when it comes to crossing their zionist masters. and this is the game they’ve been told to play.
your fantasies are tiresome. may i catch a few zzzzzzzzzzzz’s? thank you.
the bolsheviks led the soviet union, and now lead the eu and us. guess you are muddling ukraine for russia.
his excellency , the honourable putin is doing it right.
it’s only a question of a bit more time before the comedian and his clowns are brought down to knees and crawled to lubinanka.
better late than later!
the best way to do this, is to close the air space over the black sea. every non-russian bird eats a couple of missiles. enough of responses, end of the line.
too late to response. give missiles to houthis who have bigger balls than you do.
no fly zone for nato assests, turkey must leave nato too. shot em all down. war is war.
turkey wants to join brics, which will mean, when it goes through, they will no longer be in hato.. still, hato will still have luxemburg to depend on, when needing forces to lend a hand (sarc).
turkey controls access to the black sea, which is why they were among the first to be wooed by nato.
their leaving would be the final nail in the coffin of the kaganite covenant for the new american century’s ‘full spectrum dominance’ wet dream, not that it’s doing too well as it is.
when i heard that turkey wanted to join brics, i must admit it made me smile. going back to the history of the montreux convention, it was interesting that it all goes back to turkey being stabbed in the back by the uk and europe, with regards ‘crimea to constantinople’ and control of the black sea.
2) the us, is not a signatory of the treaty, and ironically the us, who is so proud of having the largest navy in the world, has never ratified the international sea treaty/law of the sea, yet believes itself superior to international treaties, laws and regulations.
3) anyway, going back to turkey, there is so much more, than just control of the black sea, if they move into the brics partnership. how will it affect the ambitions of poland and lithuania, with regards the ‘3 seas initiative’? how would it affect the plans of $oro$, to deny russia access to international waters?
4) then, you have the 2nd largest army in hato, that would be moving over to brics and leaving hato to the likes of luxemburg, for matters of defence. that is before you get to the middle east quandry. isn’t saudi also in line to join brics, along with iran and turkey? whilst all this is going on, the media remain mute and hato devotes itself to studies in using the correct pronoun, when addressing each other.
stop complaining and just shoot them down.
they’re drones in a war zone. fair game.
make the americans fly pilots so then they can be escorted out of the region.
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stupid russians don’t know how to respond to enemy drones???????????
that kind if stupid desrves what it gets.
e’ inutile dire che così non va e non si può continuare a fare commenti e avvertimenti. quanto dovrebbe durare questa farsa e questi bombardamenti mirati senza una reazione ?
la risposta dovrebbe essere sul tavolo… quello che verrà dopo è chiaro
in other words, play time is over?
russia should have been targeting them from the start, now close the black sea airspace and have s500’s ready to rip along with continuous air patrols
come on russian, yemen slap 6 of them down already, hell, if they can do it you can too, this is war. fuck the west
es liegt komplett auf dem tisch. ein neuer globaler krieg, weil der westen zu gierig wurde und sich dachte, dass es eine gute idee gewesen ist, china in die wto aufzunehmen. nun, 1990 lies clinton die chinesen rein. alles lief gut, bis china mehr liefern konnte als alle andern zusammen und der dollar zu verlieren drohte. die gier war’s…
start knocking down united states drones over the black sea already, the united states military is in a bitch position and won’t do shit if their drones are knocked down.
bojo will send another bailing wire and chewing gum war ship into crimea’s waters.
russians hold all of the cards on the battlefield and in the air. america and and europe have realized to some degree, that there countries are under massive existential threats from with in from neo liberalism. i is a massive distraction to all the external mess the usa and natostan have created.
kallas and von der leyen will straighten those russkies out in no time. lol
laurel and hardy of the eu, what on earth could go wrong with those two in charge?