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Russian Warplanes Are Bombing Russia, Aiming To Block Invading Ukrainian Troops
The Kremlin’s glide-bombing campaign has shifted to Kursk Oblast in Russia.
Russian Warplanes Are Bombing Russia, Aiming To Block Invading Ukrainian Troops
The Kremlin’s glide-bombing campaign has shifted to Kursk Oblast in Russia.
Russian Warplanes Are Bombing Russia, Aiming To Block Invading Ukrainian Troops
The Kremlin’s glide-bombing campaign has shifted to Kursk Oblast in Russia.
www.forbes.com
The Kremlin’s glide-bombing campaign has shifted to Kursk Oblast in Russia.
The Russians, meanwhile, are finally bringing to bear their heaviest firepower—lobbing powerful glide bombs at Ukrainian columns rolling along Russian roads.
For more than a year, these glide bombs—each ranging 25 miles or farther with hundreds of pounds of explosives—have been Russia’s most powerful offensive weapons, demolishing Ukrainian defenses ahead of Russian ground assaults.
Now they’re defensive weapons—and potentially Russia’s main means of slowing Ukrainian assaults until fresh Russian ground troops arrive in Kursk.
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The bombing campaign began shifting north around Tuesday, roughly the same time the vanguard of at least five Ukrainian brigades rolled across the border into Kursk, kicking off a surprise counter-invasion in the 29th month of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine.
As Ukrainian battalions attacked from their bases in Sumy Oblast, right across the border from Kursk, Russian bombs rained down. “The intensity of combat in the Sumy direction has increased,” the Ukrainian general staff reported on Wednesday. “The enemy is actively applying aviation, helicopters, heavy weapons.”
Commentary:
While Democrats are dancing around the Democrat Presidential campaign Maypole, The Ukrainian Army has penetrated Russian Oblast near Kursk.
Now Russia is dropping bombs on it's own territory in attempts to dislodge and stop the deep penetration assault.
Alexander Mercouris may be far more accurate than Forbes. Mercouris makes the point that the Kursk incursion is a waste of Ukrainian soldiers. They were desperate to try to reach the Kursk nuclear power plant; all this did was end any expectations of a peace deal.
Meanwhile, the naysayers and defeatist political segments have been extolling Russian ground gains in the Ukraine, but Putin is worried that Russian soil has been taken and possibly a Nuclear facility to boot.
