Ukraine claims capture of oil rig near Crimea from Russia (VIDEO)
Posted on 09/11/2023 4:54:48 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
The Ukrainian military said Monday that it recaptured strategic gas and oil drilling platforms from Russia in the Black Sea and claimed gains in occupied areas near Bakhmut, a city in eastern Ukraine left in ruins after the war’s longest and deadliest fighting.
The recapture of the so-called Boyko Towers platforms provides an energy source and takes back an asset that Russia seized in 2015 and used to launch helicopters, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense said.
“Russia has been deprived of the ability to fully control the waters of the Black Sea, and this makes Ukraine many steps closer to regaining Crimea,” the Main Intelligence Directorate said.
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Ukraine claims capture of oil rig near Crimea from Russia (VIDEO)
Bkmk
Sure…. If you say so.
Pure propaganda.
It looks abandoned. Probably is.
Pyrrhic victory? Can they launch their invasion of Crimea from oil platforms? You know, like Island Hopping in the Pacific?
If true…..as useless as Snake Island…..but yet someone here will have us believe
an abandoned oil rig will be a game changer….if it was, Vlad will remove it in the blink of an eye…..this Ukie Hopium is getting laughable.
Zelinsky is hoping to take Pen Island.
Another day of glorious Ukranian victories
It’s as significant as robbing a Citgo gas station in Queens.
From the article “ Combat has persisted on the outskirts of Bakhmut since Ukrainian troops pulled out of the city in May.”
The Ukies were annihilated in Artymovsk (Russian name for Bakmut) after losing 40,000 plus troops ( some estimates state upwards of 55,000 over the six months)…..after claiming it had no significance….so why are they still sending troops into Vlad’s meat grinder?
Slava Snake!
Another day of glorious Ukranian victories
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Their “ victories” remind me of the Japs massed suicide attacks in WW2….the Jap’s suicide attacks intensified as their losses became totally unsustainable, Bonzai attacks ( today’s Ukie offensive)….what next? Kamikazee aircraft attacks?
This is a PR stunt on an abandoned platform, to distract the simple minded from the fact that Ukraine is losing badly, and of zero tactical or strategic value.
Sad
Right. And I claim a Nobel Chemistry Prize for discovering hot water.
This is a PR stunt on an abandoned platform, to distract the simple minded from the fact that Ukraine is losing badly,
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Some of todays war porn, loaded with video. No PR here, just Ukie defeats, loads of Stryker and western equipment destroyed…..Vlad’s western equipment clobber list grows, exponentially.
Putin Proppers foaming at the mouth.
I’ll be shocked if Russia doesn’t mop up the rest of Ukraine as soon as winter starts. They’ll have 20 years of drones hitting their shopping malls and airstrips if they don’t.
….more wasted M777’s…..a dozen more videos of clobbered US equipment.
https://southfront.press/kiev-forces-fail-to-advance-in-several-directions-videos/
Vlads Lancet drones are now running at full production, 5,000 per month…..Southfront video posted has some remarkable footage clobbering what left of our welfare M777’s, with a few Bradleys and Strykers thrown in.
The other game changer is Vlads loitering drones, it’s a Turkey shoot.
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