Posted on 10/17/2022 4:38:03 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
KYIV – Russia launched its first-ever attack on the Ukrainian capital using Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones early on Oct. 17, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported. Information on casualties is not yet available.
A fire broke out in a non-residential building in the central Shevchenkivskyi district while several residential buildings were damaged, according to the mayor.
According to the President's Office, three people were killed as a result of the attack on a residential building.
“Enemies can attack our cities, but they won't break us,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address.
The drone attack comes exactly a week after Russia’s massive barrage of missile strikes during Monday rush hour claimed at least 20 lives nationwide. Kyiv was among the cities hit, breaking the relative peace the capital’s residents had enjoyed since the last missile strike in late June.
Kamikaze drones struck Kyiv Oblast for the first time on Oct. 5, hitting an undisclosed building in Bila Tserkva, located some 75 kilometers south of the capital. Until today, Kyiv had remained untouched by the Iranian-made drones that Russia has increasingly used to strike targets across Ukraine.
Iranian-made drones
Cheaper than cruise missiles, Russia has intensified its attacks using kamikaze drones in recent weeks against Kyiv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Vinnytsia, and other cities across Ukraine.
Russia is increasingly relying on loitering munitions to attack Ukraine's energy infrastructures.
Earlier last week, the Russian-operated drones struck the same thermal plant in western Vinnytsia Oblast on Oct. 10 and 11, energy company DTEK said. Moscow openly admitted that Ukraine's energy infrastructures are among its key "designated targets."
Russia also launched several attacks on Odesa's city center, forcing residents to run to nearby underground shelters.
Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi said northeastern Sumy Oblast and central Dnipropetrovsk Oblast were also attacked by the drones this morning.
Of the 43 Russian-operated kamikaze drones that attacked Ukraine, 37 were downed, air force spokesman Yurii Ihnat said on Oct. 17.
On Oct. 16, Ukraine downed 11 kamikaze drones within an hour. Ukraine is shooting down around 75% of kamikaze drones, according to Ukraine's Air Force.
Ukraine and the U.S. have accused Iran of supplying weapons to Russia.
The Washington Post reported, citing U.S. officials, that Russian cargo planes carrying combat drones left Tehran in mid-August. The Iranian Foreign Ministry, on Oct. 15, once again denied allegations, and Russia has not commented. Kyiv has presented parts of the Russian-used Iranian drones downed over Ukraine.
The U.K. intelligence said the Iranian drones are "slow and fly at low altitudes" with a small explosive payload, unable to fulfill "the deep strike function which Russia probably aspired to use it for."
While it's not exactly clear how many more of such drones Russia still possesses, President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that Moscow ordered 2,400 pieces of kamikaze drones from Iran, citing Kyiv's intelligence. EU foreign ministers are expected to discuss the topic at a meeting in Luxembourg on Oct. 17.
The first part of the article was about the Russians hitting targets in and around Kiev...
“The U.K. intelligence said the Iranian drones are “slow and fly at low altitudes” with a small explosive payload, unable to fulfill “the deep strike function which Russia probably aspired to use it for.”
Even when shot down they still either explodes or start fires
Bigger and better Iranian hardware on the way.
21st century version of the Paris Gun.
The Neocons wanted a real war, they’re now getting it.
I didn’t know Hulk Hogan was Russian…. BROTHERRRRRFFF
Yeah, the Nazis were convinced the mass introduction of V2 strikes (Sept. 1944) would turn the war around too ... hey, V2s were unstoppable!!
needless to say, it didn’t
these Iranian pinpricks won’t either ... but they WILL make the Ukrainian people more determined to continue the fight
What, with a pinprick vengeance hit on a residential area? The V-1s and V-2s did far more damage in World War 2.
Elsewhere, in southern and eastern Ukraine, notice that the trees are losing their leaves making hiding in the EVER PRESENT WOODLINES surrounding the open fields much less effective. Things happen when you can’t hide. Just sayin’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB1h2GebYEc
The joy people seem to have for the death and destruction says volumes. Russia started this even if Ukraine joined NATO. Who out there besides Putin thinks that NATO would attack Russia. This is all about Putin and people taking joy in the suffering of Ukrainians is sad. The fact that Russia is activating T-62s and buying munitions from Iran and possibly Korea mobilizing 1000s of Russians to continue the “special operation” also speaks volumes about Russia’s military situation. Will this all result in the destruction and occupation of Ukraine seems likely but for what cost. The world has gone mad once again
Wait, what! I thought the propaganda was that no nations would align with Russia. Of course, anyone paying attention knew that was all bunk.
“What, with a pinprick vengeance hit on a residential area?”
Didn’t hear that the Ukrainians dropped another S300 on Kiev. No surprise.
also speaks volumes about Russia’s military situation.
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The billions the West is giving Ukraine, now officially a welfare state , speaks volumes about the Ukrainian military situation….Vlad spends pennies, the West billions.
Guess who runs out of money and equipment first? And Vlad says Checkmate again.
Meanwhile many of the nations supplying Ukraine with money and hardware are putting their economies into a near depression to fight this war.
Word of warning, you never know what poster you are responding to, rumors are going around of posters using multiple identities to give the impression of vast support for the current situation and impending Russian doom.
Wait, what! I thought the propaganda was that no nations would align with Russia.——-
Well, close to 70 percent of the world’s population refuses to honor vegetable head Biden’s sanctions and his Ukie war. Russia/ China/ India/ SA/ME , Africa and Brics ALL had enough of US hedgemony, war mongering, and woke far left agenda.
mobilizing 1000s of Russians
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Real number is 2.1 million, but not all will be conscripted.
Surprised the Ukraines don’t send a few Kamikaze drones to Moscow.
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