Posted on 10/10/2022 8:53:33 AM PDT by Kazan
Back in March I had warned that Lies Do Not Win Wars. Here is another practical example.
After allegedly having 'run out of missiles' and, more importantly, patience, the leadership of the Russian Federation decided to de-electrify Ukrainian cities with a 'barrage of missile strikes'.
But first came the propaganda blubber:
320 missiles in a day: Russia targets short-range ballistic missiles at Ukraine; what is the result? - WION - Mar 2, 2022
Russia running short on guided missiles, firing indiscriminately - Ukraine - Jerusalem Post - March 17, 2022
Russia Running Out of Precision Munitions in Ukraine War Pentagon Official - US News - Mar 24, 2022
Russia running short of precision missiles, say western officials - Financial Times - Apr 29, 2022
SCORCHED EARTH Now humiliated Putin is running out of MISSILES in desperate bid to defeat Ukraine, UK armed forces chief tells TalkTV - Sun - May 5, 2022
Putin ‘running out of missiles’ amid claims quarter of Russian Army now lost - City A.M. - May 6, 2022
Is Russia running out of missiles? US, Russia send mixed messages - Jerusalem Post - May 16, 2022
Explainer: Is Russia Running Low on Missiles? - Moscow Times - May 17, 2022
Has Russia Run Out of Precision-Guided Missiles? - SOFREP - May 23, 2022
Russia ‘running out’ of precision weapons - UK Defense Journal - Jun 11, 2022
Russia fires five-and-a-half ton Cold War-era missiles designed to destroy aircraft carriers at Ukrainian forces in the Donbas after running out of precision rockets, MoD says - Daily Mail - Jun 12, 2022
Vladimir Putin running short of missiles as Russian forces turn to old weaponry stock - Mirror - Jul 8, 2022 Putin left scratching head as Russia RUNS OUT of missiles to make ground attacks - Express - Jul 23, 2022
Will Russia Run Out of Precision-Guided Munitions? - National Interest - Aug 11, 2022
Russia Has Run Out of Long-Range Missiles to Terrorize Ukraine - !945 - Aug 20, 2022
No more than 45% missiles that Russia had before the war remain Chief Directorate of Intelligence - Ukrainska Pravda - Aug 27, 2022
Russia 'running out of Iskander and Kalibr missiles’ - The New Voice of Ukraine / Yahoo - Aug 27, 2022
Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Claims Russia Is Running Low On Missiles - The Drive - Aug 27, 2022
Russian Federation will run out of shells, artillery and armoured vehicles by year end - Ukrainska Pravda - Aug 31, 2022
Russia Might Run Out of Weapons, Ammunition By End of Year: Report - Newsweek - Aug 31, 2022
Russia Is Running Out of Missiles. That’s Bad News for Ukraine - Defense Post - Sep 1, 2022
Alexander Kovalenko: when Russia will critically run out of missiles - Odessa Journal - Sep 2, 2022
Russia Resorting to Out of Date Missiles as Weapon Stocks Run Low: Ukraine - Newsweek - Sep 4, 2022
Ukraine believes Russia has less than 50 hypersonic missiles left because it can't get the chips needed to make more: report - Business Insider - Sep 6, 2022
Out Of Missiles! Russia Is Left With ‘Limited Stock’ Of Hypersonic Weapons Due To Microchip Shortage – Ukraine - Eurasian Times - Sep 7, 2022
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Then a warning:
'We Haven't Started Yet,' Putin Says in Hawkish Speech on Ukraine Invasion - Haaretz - Jul 7, 2022
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had barely got started in Ukraine and dared the West to try to defeat it on the battlefield, while insisting that Moscow was still open to the idea of peace talks.
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"Today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield. What can you say, let them try," he said. "We have heard many times that the West wants to fight us to the last Ukrainian. This is a tragedy for the Ukrainian people, but it seems that everything is heading towards this."
... "Everyone should know that, by and large, we haven't started anything yet in earnest," he added. "At the same time, we don't reject peace talks. But those who reject them should know that the further it goes, the harder it will be for them to negotiate with us."
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Total disregard:
U.S. Believes Ukrainians Were Behind an Assassination in Russia - NY Times - Oct 5, 2020
American officials said they were not aware of the plan ahead of time for the attack that killed Daria Dugina and that they had admonished Ukraine over it.
UN: Ukraine nuclear power plant loses external power link - ABC News - Oct 8, 2022
The U.N. nuclear watchdog says that Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, has lost its last remaining external power source as a result of renewed shelling and is now relying on emergency diesel generators
Ukraine unveils stamps celebrating Kerch bridge explosion - hours after the attack - Telegraph - Oct 8, 2022 Timing of the Post Office announcement, just hours after the Crimea bridge was destroyed, raises questions about the nature of the damage
Syricide @Syricide - 8:33 UTC · 10 Oct 2022 #Kiev yesterday.
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Consequences:
Russia Unleashes Biggest Barrage of Strikes on Ukraine Since Invasion - WSJ - Oct 10, 2022
Cities throughout Ukraine, including Kyiv, are bombarded after Putin slams Ukraine over Crimea bridge blast
KYIV, Ukraine—Russia carried out waves of strikes on several Ukrainian cities including the capital in the broadest and most intense onslaught since the start of the invasion, after President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of a “terrorist attack” on a critical bridge connecting Russia’s mainland to the occupied Crimean Peninsula.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had carried out dozens of strikes using missiles as well as Iranian-made drones to target civilian and power infrastructure. “They want panic and chaos,” he said. “They want to destroy our energy system.”
Ukraine "under missile attack" as explosions rock Kyiv and other cities - CBSNews - Oct 10, 2022
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the president's office, said on social media Monday that, "Ukraine is under missile attack. There is information about strikes in many cities of our country."
General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said on Twitter that Russia had launched 75 missiles at Ukraine but that "41 of them were neutralized by our air defence."
Zelenskyy later emerged onto a street in Kyiv to record a selfie video with a message to his people and the world, denouncing Russia for the barrage of missiles which he said had targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure, and its civilians.
Kiev, Lviv, Karkov, Dnipropetrovsk, Krivoy Rog all report damage to their electricity infrastructure.
this Russian kook again
there won’t be another 75 missiles tomorrow
Most of those articles listed have been peddled within FR by the likes of marcusmaximus, timberrattler, RevMom, etc., etc., etc.
Ironic.
Ironic indeed.
There were already more missiles a few minutes ago.
How can these attacks today be possible?? Russia has been out of missles for 7 months.
You miss the point: the constant blithering about Russia running out of missiles and artillery shells rings hollow when they keep firing them.
I saw Peter Zeihan (the “famous geo-strategist” who IMHO is a CIA Ukraine PR war-whore) say — YES, Russia has run out of its “best” missiles, so it can only pound Ukraine cities with “old and dumb” rockets - thus they are not hitting anything strategic and its just weapons of terror on civilians
So, yes - you can certainly expect this fake narrative to be used.
It was the same BS lies on aviation fuel, tanks, generals, food, ammo, you name it. Some of these morons will tell you now is the time for NATO to attack because Russia is no longer able to defend itself.
hahaha! I love the montage.
Now do one on “Russia humiliated” or “Russia retreats!”
hahaha! I love the montage.
Now do one on “Russia humiliated” or “Russia retreats!”
Computer chips, like everything else can be bought for a price if one has a big enough wallet.
Guess Russia has a large one.(for now)
Yeah, I have a folder filled with them type articles bookmarked, as well. Again, most of which have been peddled by the same propaganda peddlers within FR.
Russia discards no hardware. I have no doubt they still have some lend-lease tanks from WWII stored somewhere.
still less than 100 total ... the US launched thousands in its “shock and awe”
and it’s nice to see Russia is wasting them on non-military targets that have no effect on the outcome
let’s see how long that can last
Pretty clear these aren’t precision guided. Unless Russia really wanted to hit a park and the university in Kiev.
I would take that as proof they have indeed run out of guided missiles.
So are you saying a park in the middle of Kiev had strategic value?
Or maybe the reports that Russia only has dumb missiles left are correct.
Another example of how a logistics war is fought. The first side to run out of:
Men
Weapons
Supplies
is going to loose
This “missile strike” business is nonsense. Everyone knows that the RF is out of weapons and men. These strikes were actually carried out by flying babushkas riding their broom handles and handbagging Ukrainian infrastructure into rubble. Apparently, the RF hasn’t run out fo babushkas. Even the Daily Mail hasn’t claimed that.
Shock and awe was a miserable failure. 10 years later Iran had more influence than the U.S. all these super powers need to learn that you can’t occupy another country. Of course they’ll never learn.
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