Posted on 01/04/2023 5:28:27 AM PST by Red Badger
Vladimir Putin suffered yet another devastating blow over the weekend after 700 Russian soldiers were killed in a Ukrainian missile strike, RadarOnline.com has learned.
In a stunning development to come as Russia’s war against Ukraine quickly approaches the one-year mark, the deadliest strike yet reportedly took place on Saturday as Putin was giving his annual New Year’s address from Moscow.
According to Ukrainian intelligence, 700 Russian soldiers were killed when Ukrainian forces launched a missile barrage on a barracks building in Makiivka, Donetsk.
The building also reportedly held numerous armored cars, boxes of ammunition, and missiles that were ultimately destroyed in the missile strike and added to the destruction.
Despite evidence finding 700 Russian soldiers were killed during Saturday’s strike, “official” Russian figures suggested only 63 Russian troops died in the attack and those who died were young recruits being trained to fight on the frontlines of the war.
Top Kremlin officials were also reportedly “annoyed” that so many soldiers, military supplies, and ammunition were left in one place to be destroyed.
“The uncounted and uninteresting bodies will remain to rot under the concrete rubble,” said Alexander Nevzorov, an exiled Russian journalist, when the attack was confirmed. “Soldiers’ meat in Russia is so cheap that it makes no sense to count.”
Also shocking are Russia’s claims Ukraine used American-made HIMARS rockets to carry out the attack on New Year’s Eve.
One HIMAR (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) reportedly costs roughly $2.4 million and the United States has so far donated 22 of the units to Ukraine since May 2022.
HIMARS reportedly have the capacity to fire six missiles at once and can target any site within a 310-mile range.
As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Putin was giving his New Year’s address when the deadly missile strike took place.
While 700 Russian soldiers lost their lives during the attack, Putin was promising his citizens that Russia would prevail in Ukraine and regain “historical territory” from Ukrainian forces.
“The West lied about peace,” Putin said during his address. “It was preparing for aggression. … And now they are cynically using Ukraine and its people to weaken and split Russia.”
“Together, we will overcome all difficulties and preserve our country’s greatness and independence,” the 70-year-old leader added. “We will triumph, for our families and for Russia.”
Brandon is a military genius!
He’s gonna get us nuked......................
Russia says 60-100. Math says add and divide by 2, so about 350.
The numbers are going up. It’s just like a fishing story...
More propaganda from a fatally compromised media. The first casualty in war is always the truth. We are being played big time with this Ukrainian conflict. To the tune of billions of taxpayers’ dollars. While the U.S. population continues to stupidly lap up the Kool Aid.
Keep it up Ukraine!!!!!
Where but in our great democracy can a common paperhanger rise to become both a military and naval genius?!!
The kremlin acknowledged 89 dead so far. An appropriate scaling factor needs to be applied. They only admitted to about 15 lost from the Moskva, but the other 485 crew haven’t been seen since.
That’s the plan.
Yes the truth is the first to go but 63 lol that was a big building and it was completely destroyed true it could have been mostly empty but it think the truth is somewhere between reported numbers. The bigger issue is that these folks are still not practicing opsec and the building apparently was geolocated because of posts by soldiers in the building. When I was in Afghanistan we were told to turn all that stuff and some were using Fitbits to run and were basically broadcasting the perimeter of the base that got shut down pretty quick
Then there is the storing of ammunition in personnel buildings not a good idea
Let me know when it hits 5,000 dead.
(should be a week or so)
Neither side is to be trusted. The propaganda in both directions is massive.
All day, everyday.
I don’t care who wins. I want us to concentrate on fixing the US.
It’s not 1970, and the Soviet Empire is not reconstituting.
“storing of ammunition in personnel buildings”
The stupidity of the Russians seems to have no bottom.
Sounds suspicious
I didn’t think Ukraine had any intelligence. Just CIA. The whole place is an owned joke.
It’s like one of those gossip experiments we had in school where a person started a story and each student in turn told it to another until the original story was completely unrecognizable.............
C’mon, all lies! Russia is winning this war! Complete success with every battle!
Bidenistas are a bit overzealous. They are rabid.
Not sure what Biden has to do with it, but I do know that back in the day conservatives would not accept another country illegally going to another country. Things have changed since Reagan. Sadly, this new group has absolutely no morals.
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