Reuters – May 4, 2024
The Russian defense ministry said on Saturday its air defense forces shot down four US-produced long-range missiles over Crimea, weapons known as Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) that Washington has shipped to Ukraine in recent weeks.
The ministry said later that Russian aircraft and air defense systems had downed a total of 15 ATACMS in the past week.
On Tuesday, Russian officials said Ukraine had attacked Crimea with ATACMS in an attempt to pierce Russian air defenses of the annexed peninsula but that six had been shot down.
A US official said in Washington last month that the United States secretly shipped long-range missiles to Ukraine in recent weeks.
The ATACMS missiles, with a range up to 300 kilometers (190 miles) were used for the first time in the early hours of April 17, launched against a Russian airfield in Crimea that was about 165 kilometers (103 miles) from the Ukrainian frontlines, the official said.
The Pentagon initially opposed the long-range missile deployment, concerned that taking the missiles from the American stockpile would hurt US military readiness.
There were also concerns that Ukraine would use them to attack targets deep inside Russia, a step which could lead to an escalation of the war towards a direct confrontation between Russia and the United States.
Separately on Saturday, the Russian defense ministry said that in the last week its forces had destroyed a military train carrying equipment and arms produced in the West and supplied to Ukraine by NATO.
The scale of the damage, exact date and location were not disclosed.
Reuters is not immediately able to corroborate battlefield accounts from either side.
So what do we take from this?
Given renewed Russian threats to nuke the Nazi West, we see just how good Russian missile defence systems are, and these aren’t even the top tier, because the Russians won’t turn on their best systems.
I believe Russian S400, S500, & S550 systems, alongside electromagnetic capabilities, and most Nazi nukes will be destroyed, assuming they even launch. Minute Man silos are said to be in poor condition, and the last 8 Trident launch tests at sea have all failed.
The Nazis have had failing economies since the 1970s, their debt hungry MICs are corrupt and highly inefficient, and the most telling. They have destroyed their social contracts which was a bad deal for the sheeple in the first place, but they accepted it, but this is now smashed into smithereens, and no one wants to fight, or is even fit to fight.
reuters are rothschild the same as the BBC and rupert murdoch
be careful what info you take in
Will Russia bleed the west’s armoury first? Or its treasury?