No longer just foreign atrocity theater to pacify the masses, Putin’s war has reached Moscow.
“One of the largest attempts to attack Moscow with drones ever” – Mayor of Moscow pic.twitter.com/IW8WkztOOY
— KyivPost (@KyivPost) August 21, 2024
Previously: Hohol Warlords Evacuating Strategic Logistics Hub Pokrovsk Amid Senseless Kursk Rampage
I don’t know if you know this, but the Ukraine is just days away from marching on Moscow.
They have the city surrounded and they are very close to capturing the Kremlin.
Ukraine has carried out one of its biggest drone attacks on Moscow, as Ukrainian troops continue to advance in Russia’s Kursk region, with probing raids on frontline towns and villages.
Russia’s defence ministry said it had intercepted 11 kamikaze drones before they reached the capital. Several were shot down over the city of Podolsk, 24 miles south of Moscow and not far from Domodedovo international airport. Residents heard a buzzing in the night sky followed by loud explosions.
The ministry said it had destroyed 45 drones over Russian territory, including 23 in the border region of Bryansk and six over the Belgorod region. Two more were intercepted above Kursk province, where Ukraine launched a surprise invasion just over two weeks ago. Three more were downed over Kaluga. Others were spotted in the northern Murmansk region, apparently heading for an airfield used by strategic bombers.
“This is one of the largest attempts to attack Moscow using drones ever,” the city’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, wrote early on Wednesday on the Telegram messaging app.
On Monday Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, called for allies to lift restrictions on the use of western weapons against airbases and other strategic objects within Russia. These ballistic and cruise missiles, including the UK’s Storm Shadow, can be used only up to Russia’s border areas.
Zelenskiy said that red lines – imposed by the Biden administration because of fears of nuclear escalation – were now meaningless, as the war spread further and deeper into Russia. So far the US, UK and France have not been willing to update their policy.
Well, he’s sort of right that they are meaningless, given that the Ukraine has now already used Western weapons to attack inside of Russia.
He might have a point there.
If American “advisors” and “contractors” are using their own missiles to hit Moscow, that would be even worse than what is happening now, but I’m not sure how much worse.
The thing already seems to be spinning completely out of control, which is why Russia, the adult in the room, is moving to try to quickly break the defenses and get to some kind of “stopping point” in the war.
Ukraine had to sacrifice its defenses in the Donbas for the incursion in the Kursk region.
Ukraine simply doesn’t have the manpower and resources to fight on multiple fronts, but Russia does!
The entire Donbass region will soon be liberated! pic.twitter.com/MzmvjTuhgN
— Gabe (@GabeZZOZZ) August 21, 2024