[RD] - Russia Invades Ukraine: Eight (2025)

The massacre (AKA the good cause) of civilians and civilian infrastructure goes on, it's very unfair Ukraine can't respond in kind!

Russia strikes Ukraine's critical infrastructure in war's largest drone attack​

KYIV, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Russian forces staged their largest ever drone attack on Ukraine overnight, cutting power to much of the western region of Ternopil and damaging residential buildings in Kyiv region, Ukraine's officials said on Tuesday.
Intensified nightly drone attacks on Ukrainian cities are coinciding with a major push by Russia along frontlines in Ukraine's east, where Russian forces have made some of the largest monthly territorial gains since 2022.

Of 188 drones used overnight, Ukraine shot down 76 and lost track of 96, likely due to active electronic warfare, the air force said. Five drones headed towards Belarus.
"The enemy launched a record number of Shahed attack UAVs and unidentified drones ...," it said, in addition to using four Iskander-M ballistic missiles. Russia uses cheaply-produced "suicide" drones and low-cost "decoy" drones, which tie up Ukrainian air defences.

"Unfortunately, there were hits to critical infrastructure facilities, and private and apartment buildings were damaged in several regions due to the massive drone attack," an air force statement said, adding that no casualties had been reported.
The attack damaged the power grid in Ternopil, a major city in western Ukraine, and cut power to around 70% of the region, governor Vyacheslav Nehoda said on national television.

Ternopil, some 220 km (134 miles) east of NATO-member Poland, and the surrounding region had a population of more than a million before the February 2022 Russian invasion, which drove many Ukrainians west.
"The consequences are bad because the facility was significantly affected and this will have impact on the power supply of the entire region for a long time," Nehoda said.

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WATER CUT OFF​

The attack also cut off water and disrupted heat supplies, the head of the regional defence headquarters Serhiy Nadal said via the Telegram messaging app.

Nehoda said the emergency services had mostly restored the water supply by morning and the local authorities were planning to introduce planned power cuts in the attack's aftermath.
Ukraine's national power grid operator Ukrenergo said emergency power cuts were in effect in the region and that engineers were working to restore power supply.
Electric buses that service the city would be replaced with regular buses and generators would help with power shortages in schools, hospitals and government institutions, Nadal said.

Russia also targeted the capital Kyiv overnight, the military administration of the city said on Telegram, adding that air defence units destroyed more than 10 Russian drones.
Falling debris damaged four private residences, two high-rise apartment buildings, two garages and a car in the region surrounding the capital, its governor Ruslan Kravchenko said.
The drones approached Kyiv in waves and from different directions, but there was no damage or injuries in the city, Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv's military administration said on Telegram.
Most of Ukraine was under overnight air raid alert for hours, air force data showed.

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Better late then never if it ever comes to happen, it would be a nice addition to EU deterrent.
Also cry me a river Peskov

Russia condemns "irresponsible" talk of nuclear weapons for Ukraine​

MOSCOW, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Discussion in the West about arming Ukraine with nuclear weapons is "absolutely irresponsible", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, in response to a report in the New York Times citing unidentified officials who suggested such a possibility.
The New York Times reported last week that some unidentified Western officials had suggested U.S. President Joe Biden could give Ukraine nuclear weapons before he leaves office.

"Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union. That would be an instant and enormous deterrent. But such a step would be complicated and have serious implications," the newspaper wrote
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Asked about the report, Peskov told reporters: "These are absolutely irresponsible arguments of people who have a poor understanding of reality and who do not feel a shred of responsibility when making such statements. We also note that all of these statements are anonymous."

Earlier, senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said that if the West supplied nuclear weapons to Ukraine then Moscow could consider such a transfer to be tantamount to an attack on Russia, providing grounds for a nuclear response.
Ukraine inherited nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union after its 1991 collapse, but gave them up under a 1994 agreement, the Budapest Memorandum, in return for security assurances from Russia, the United States and Britain.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said last month that as Ukraine had handed over the nuclear weapons, joining NATO was the only way it could deter Russia.
The 33-month Russia-Ukraine war saw escalations on both sides last week, after Ukraine fired U.S. and British missiles into Russia for the first time, with permission from the West, and Moscow responded by launching a new hypersonic intermediate-range missile into Ukraine.

Asked about the risk of a nuclear escalation, Peskov said the West should "listen carefully" to Putin and read Russia's newly updated nuclear doctrine, which lowered the threshold for using nuclear weapons.
Separately, Russian foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin said Moscow opposes simply freezing the conflict in Ukraine because it needs a "solid and long-term peace" that resolves the core reasons for the crisis.

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The directorate responsible for the good cause reports airbase on fire but mostly peaceful.

‘It’s Exploding!’ A Russian Exclaims As Ukraine’s American-Made ATACMS Rain Down On A Front-Line Air Base​

When the news broke last week that the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden had authorized Ukraine to fire American-made Army Tactical Missile System rockets at targets in around Kursk Oblast in western Russia, the Russian air force braced for the ATACMS, each packing up to 950 submunitions, to rain down.

The storm finally rolled in early Monday morning. “What the fudge? It’s exploding!” a Russian servicemember exclaimed in a video as at least one of the 3,700-pound ATACMS burst over Khalino air base, in Kursk 70 miles from the Russia-Ukraine border. An ATACMS ranges as far as 190 miles.

The raid may have had the effect of “potentially temporarily putting the airfield out of action,” reported Frontelligence Insight, a Ukrainian analysis group. That’s good news for the 20,000-strong Ukrainian force holding a 250-square-mile salient around the town of Sudzha 50 miles southwest of Khalino. That force is expecting a massive Russian assault in the coming days.

Khalino is the closest major airfield to the Kursk battlefield, so it makes sense that the Russian air force has been staging its main ground-attack jets, subsonic Sukhoi Su-25s, at the base. The Russian Su-25 force has been badly bled by Ukrainian air defenses in the 33 months of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine: the Ukrainians have shot down or damaged around three dozen of the roughly 200 Su-25s the Russians operated prior to 2022.

The Khalino strike may have knocked out additional Su-25s. But the Russians have been scrambling to build revetments at the base, potentially offering some protection for the planes. And it’s possible many of the Su-25s evacuated just prior to the ATACMS raid. “Activity at the base had noticeably decreased in recent days, leaving it unclear whether significant numbers of aircraft were hit,” Frontelligence Insight explained.

That doesn’t mean the base—specifically, its fuel tanks, command facilities and warehouses and nearby air-defense batteries—weren’t worth striking with one or more of Ukraine’s modest inventory of ATACMS, which may have numbered just a few dozen rockets at its peak.

The hit on Khalino could deprive Russia’s drone force of a critical front-line staging base. And if any surface-to-air missile batteries or radars went up in flames in the raid, there could be a new gap in Russian air defenses. That “could create opportunities for future strikes with more cheap and numerous drones,” according to Frontellience Insight.

Monday’s ATACMS strike is the third major Ukrainian deep strike on strategic targets in and around Kursk since the United States—and later the United Kingdom and France—authorized Ukraine to use its best foreign-made missiles against targets inside Russia.

As the battle for Kursk escalates, more Ukrainian strikes are likely. And further Russian retaliation is likely, too. The terrifying ballistic missile raid on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday is widely viewed as a response to those ATACMS thundering down on Russia.

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