Russians getting a taste of their own medicine:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/10/europe/ukraine-drone-strikes-moscow-intl/index.html


Ukraine strikes Moscow in biggest drone attack to date

Story by Reuters
3 minute read
Updated 7:55 AM EDT, Tue September 10, 2024



Ukraine struck the Moscow region on Tuesday in its biggest drone attack so far on the Russian capital, killing at least one woman, wrecking dozens of homes and forcing around 50 flights to be diverted from airports around Moscow.

Russia, the world’s biggest nuclear power, said it destroyed at least 20 Ukrainian attack drones as they swarmed over the Moscow region, which has a population of more than 21 million, and 124 more over eight other regions.

At least one person was killed near Moscow, Russian authorities said. Three of Moscow’s four airports were closed for more than six hours and almost 50 flights were diverted.



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A damaged building in Ramenskoye in the Moscow region is seen following a Ukrainian drone attack.



Kyiv said Russia, which sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, had attacked it overnight with 46 drones, of which 38 were destroyed.

The drone attacks on Russia damaged at high-rise apartment buildings in the Ramenskoye district of the Moscow region, setting flats on fire, residents told Reuters.

A 46-year-old woman was killed and three people were wounded in Ramenskoye, Moscow regional governor Andrei Vorobyov said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-destroys-ukraine-launched-drone-flying-towards-moscow-mayor-says-2024-09-09/

By Reuters
September 10


DRONE WAR

The war has largely been a grinding artillery and drone war along the 1,000 km (620 mile) heavily fortified front line in southern and eastern Ukraine involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
Moscow and Kyiv have both sought to buy and develop new drones, deploy them in innovative ways, and seek new ways to destroy them - from using shotguns to advanced electronic jamming systems.
Both sides have turned cheap commercial drones into deadly weapons while ramping up their own production and assembly to attack targets including tanks and energy infrastructure such as refineries and airfields.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has sought to insulate Moscow from the grinding rigours of the war, has called Ukrainian drone attacks that target civilian infrastructure such as nuclear power plants "terrorism" and has vowed a response.
Moscow and other big Russian cities have largely been insulated from the war.
Russia itself has hit Ukraine with thousands of missiles and drones in the last two-and-a-half years, killing thousands of civilians, wrecking much of the country's energy system and damaging commercial and residential properties across the country.
Ukraine says it has a right to strike back deep into Russia, though Kyiv's Western backers have said they do not want a direct confrontation between Russia and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance.
There was no immediate comment from Ukraine about Tuesday's attacks. Both sides deny targeting civilians.
Tuesday's attack follows drone attacks Ukraine launched in early September chiefly targeting Russia's energy and power facilities.
Authorities in the Tula region, which neighbours the Moscow region to its north, said drone wreckage had fallen onto a fuel and energy facility but that the "technological process" of the facility was not affected.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7l375z720o


One killed in Ukraine drone attacks on Russia


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3 hours ago

Vicky Wong
BBC News

Russian officials say they shot down 144 Ukrainian drones around the country overnight in a wave of attacks that have killed one woman, set residential buildings on fire and grounded flights in Moscow.

The governor of Moscow, Andrei Vorobyov, said several flats in two high-rise apartment buildings in Ramenskoye in Moscow region were set on fire.

Mr Vorobyov said a 46-year-old woman died and three people were injured in Ramenskoye, while 43 people were evacuated to temporary accommodation centres.

Ukraine has so far not commented on the attacks, but the Kremlin on Tuesday said the attack showed Ukraine was Russia's enemy.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said in a daily call with reporters that the strike showed the need for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine, saying: "We must continue the military operation in order to protect ourselves from such displays of this regime."

Russia's defence ministry said earlier that of the 144 drones that its air defences intercepted, half were in the western border region of Bryansk, 20 were in Moscow and 14 were over the Kursk region.

State media reported that the strikes shut down four airports in Moscow and more than 30 domestic and international flights that serve the Russian capital were suspended.

Russia's aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, confirmed on Telegram on Tuesday morning that three of the airports - Domodedovo, Zhukovsky and Vnukovo - had resumed operations.

China won't support Putin's war as US sanctions start to bite

Tim Ash

Times Radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36EBPAMxCDA


Sep 10, 2024

  Frontline | The War in Ukraine and Global Security
"China has not stepped up and helped, help Russia particularly."

China is increasingly avoiding supporting Russia militarily in Ukraine as it seeks to
repair relations with the US and avoid western sanctions,
Economist Tim Ash tells Frontline on

China’s imports of Russian crude oil hit record high 2022:

China’s crude oil imports from Russia soared 55% from a year earlier to a record level in May, displacing Saudi Arabia as the top supplier.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/20/energy/china-russia-oil-imports-record/index.html

China’s imports of Russian crude oil hit new record high 2023:

Half of Russia's oil and petroleum exports in 2023 have been shipped to China, Russia's state news agencies cited Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak as saying in late December.

China's 2023 two-way trade with Russia hit $240 billion, setting yet another new record, Chinese customs data showed on Friday, as the two countries pushed for closer economic ties even as the war in Ukraine raged on.


https://www.reuters.com/markets/china-russia-2023-trade-value-hits-record-high-240-bln-chinese-customs-2024-01-12/

It's amazing how low the IQ level required is now to get a guest spot on TV and present as yet another Western misinformation piece for imbeciles.
Remember all the Western military experts predicting the war would be over in 6 months as Russia ran out of everything.
How's Africa and "The West" going now?
How has pushing China and Russia together worked out for long term Western ambitions?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-strikes-moscow-biggest-drone-122508653.html

STORY:

Ukraine on Tuesday (September 10) launched its biggest drone attack to date on Moscow.

The 144-drone bombardment killed at least one woman near the capital, Russian authorities said, and wrecked dozens of homes.

Russia said it downed at least 20 of Ukraine’s drones as they swarmed over the Moscow region - which has a population of over 21 million.

Footage from the city’s Ramenskoye district showed fires breaking out in homes after drones damaged high-rise apartment buildings.

And according to Moscow’s regional governor, it was in this district that a woman was killed and three people were injured.

Yulia Rodionova is a resident in the area - her windows were shattered and a fragment of a drone was left on her balcony.

"A man was taken out from the house number 21 - he had his side burnt and a fragment wound. They also carried out another man, a very elderly one, and quickly got out a woman. That's all I saw, I don't know any more."

Russia’s defense ministry said over 70 drones were also downed over the Bryansk region and tens more over other regions.