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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2024 19:07:18 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 24, 2024 18:45:30 GMT
STORY: Air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv after a wave of Russian missile strikes against Ukraine on Sunday.
Residents made their way into subway stations to seek shelter.
Kyiv said the airstrikes struck critical infrastructure in western Ukraine and that air defenses destroyed about a dozen missiles over the capital.
One Russian cruise missile briefly flew about a mile into Polish airspace and stayed there for 39 seconds, according to Poland’s defense minister.
Russia has been pounding Ukraine for days in attacks portrayed by Moscow as revenge for Ukrainian attacks carried out during Russia’s presidential election.
Sunday's strikes come after Russia on Friday launched its largest aerial bombardment of Ukraine’s energy system in more than two years of full-scale war.
Ukraine’s state-run energy firm Naftogaz said an underground gas storage site had been hit in the attacks on power facilities.
On Sunday, Ukraine ramped up imports of electricity and halted exports. Naftogaz said delivery to customers had been unaffected.
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2024 1:12:36 GMT
"I am interested in who gave the order," Putin said, indicating that there was someone else behind the attack. He added that the latest attack "could be connected to a series of attempts by those who have been fighting against Russia at the hands of the Ukrainian regime since 2014." He alleged that Ukraine and other Western countries may have been behind the incident.
Although he admitted that the Islamic State carried out terrorism, he questioned, ``Is it really interested in attacking Russia?'' On the other hand, the assumption that Ukraine and Western countries were behind the attack means that the attack will "sow panic in [Russian] society and show Ukraine that all is not lost." He also claimed that it was an extremely logical explanation.
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2024 23:49:51 GMT
President Putin has reiterated his assertion that Ukraine was behind the terrorist attacks that occurred on the outskirts of Moscow.
President Putin held a video conference at the Kremlin in Moscow with officials from the investigative authorities regarding the Krokas City Hall terrorist attack, and said, ``The Islamic world has been at the hands of Islamic extremists, who have been ideologically fighting for centuries.'' "We know that this crime was committed," he said, again expressing suspicions that Ukraine was behind it. "We know by whose hands this terrorist attack against Russia and its people was carried out," Putin said, adding, "Now we want to know who ordered it." .
President Putin went on to say, ``I am interested in who benefits from it (terrorism),'' and added, ``Such brutal terrorism has been carried out by Russia since 2014, in collaboration with the neo-Nazi Kiev regime (Ukraine).'' "This may be related to a series of attempts by those fighting against the US."
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Post by Admin on Mar 28, 2024 15:04:55 GMT
Russian President Vladimir Putin says F-16 fighter jets to be supplied by the West to Ukraine will be targeted by Russian forces even if they depart from military bases in third countries.
Putin made the remark when he was speaking to Russian air force pilots on Wednesday.
He said that if F-16 fighters take off from airfields in third countries, they will become legitimate targets for Russia. He added it should be taken into account that the F-16s can carry nuclear weapons.
Putin also said that if Western countries supply Ukraine with F-16 fighters, the aircraft will not alter the situation on the battlefield, and Russia will destroy them just as it destroys tanks, armored vehicles and other equipment.
Putin hinted that Moscow has no plan to attack NATO members, calling such a plan complete nonsense. He pointed out that defense spending by the United States is more than 10-times that of Russia.
His comments followed an announcement earlier in the day by Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba who said that F-16 fighters could appear in Ukraine's skies as early as this summer.
Ukraine has long called on Western countries to provide it with F-16s. The Netherlands and Denmark have decided to do so. Training for Ukrainian pilots has already begun.
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