RT.com – June 22, 2022
Russian strikes on a shipbuilding plant in the Ukrainian port of Nikolaev killed as many as 500 troops on Tuesday, the Russian defense ministry claimed during a daily press briefing on Wednesday.
The troops belonged to the Ukrainian Army’s 59th Mechanized Brigade, the report said, who it’s believed were taking cover at the Okean Shipyard. The facility is located in the southern part of the Ukrainian city that stands on a major river some 60 kilometers inland from the Black Sea.
The ministry said the Russian Air Force had used precision weapons to strike the plant’s workshops, killing Ukrainian service members and destroying arms and military vehicles.
Ukrainian sources reported several Russian cruise-missile strikes targeting Nikolaev on Tuesday. These caused damage to port infrastructure, to industrial buildings and to the power grid, and destroyed some trucks, the Ukrainian military said.
In the briefing, Russia also claimed to have routed the 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade. The report claimed that the Ukrainian unit lost over 60% of its strength during fighting for territory claimed by the Moscow-allied Lugansk People’s Republic. The brigade fled from its positions in violation of the order from its command to stand its ground, the Russian military said.
Last week, the Russian military claimed to have killed scores of Ukrainian officers after striking a compound where a meeting of commanders of several Ukrainian units was taking place.
Russia attacked the neighboring state in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, first signed in 2014, and Moscow’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German- and French-brokered protocols were designed to give the breakaway regions special status within the Ukrainian state.
The Kremlin has since demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.
Further proof that Russia is getting very good intel. I think this points to someone high up in the UKrainian military command.
You don’t have large numbers of men in one location for very long, if at all, just as you don’t park military vehicles in close proximity. So my Bitcoin is on the idea that they are getting accurate location and timings.
It’ll be interesting to see if this emerging pattern continues.
@Carl Jones
Ever heard of “surveillance satellites”?
It seems one of the Brit mercenaries has been told his execution will be going ahead. They didn’t say he’d lost his appeal but that’s what I’m assuming. His family are complaining the British government hasn’t made any representation on his behalf so clearly they still don’t get it. His execution is a propaganda plot-device in which they can attack Russia – conveniently forgetting there are numerous men in Guantanamo who have never been tried in 20 years … many of whom by now probably wish they’d been shot instead.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/captured-briton-aiden-aslin-told-204008888.html
Hey Nico X,
What do you get when you NGO into a country, engineer a coup d’état, finance and arm an army of fanatic anti-Russian bigots and general purpose mercenary xxxxxxxxx, tell them the West has got their backs with infinite cashisch and weapons, declare that Crimea belongs to you and prepare a full frontal assault against mostly civilians in the Donbass?
Let me tell you what you get:
You get what you xxxxxxx deserve!!!
Peter Petherington: err, I think I have. 🤔
A satellite goes over, or is over head. There’s a time lag, to launch strike.
The reason why the Nazis are having to meet in person and in numbers, is bacause UKraine comms isn’t secure, so they arrange a meeting, and said meeting is probably very short. I doubt they’re having tea and biscuits. Its in, debrief, and gone, satellites are only as good as the time point. This is why you need intel, or someone on the ground with a pointer.
I am almost certain that this is a UKrainian insider.
@ FUNK SHWAY
what this f…kn brit parents think
they are ? letting loose a killer +
lament .
One bigly reason they briefly meet in person is to prove to each other that ‘each other’ are still alive and not just a handed note, a phone call or another CGI Joe and Co. staff meeting.
(there are precedents)
Only 500 Ukros dead? Pfffft…
As I said before me and my tribe will fight until the LAST Ukrainian.
Or until I run out of coke, red high heel shoes, tight leather pants and g-sting panties.
Whichever comes first.
@PETER PETHERINGTON
your site seems not to exist anymore
i think by workings of our enemies .
Ukraine has lost this war. Americans, WHY does Dementia Joe continue to shovel Billions of dollars into
Ukraine? Most of the money is stolen by the Jews in power in Ukraine. A lot of the weapons have already surfaced on the Dark Web.