On Monday Kiev was pummeled by Iranian ‘Kamikaze’ drones, reportedly killing at least three people, according to Ukrainian officials. The drones have been controversially deployed by Russian forces in Ukraine over the past few months, amid outcry in the West over alleged arms transfers between Tehran and Moscow.
“As of now, the number of people killed as a result of a kamikaze drone attack on a residential building has increased to three. Nineteen people have been rescued. [Rescue] work is ongoing,” a Ukrainian government statement said of attacks on the capital.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Monday that kamikaze drones and missiles were “attacking all of Ukraine“. In addition to the attacks on the capital, three more were reported killed in the eastern Sumy region, bringing the total of deceased to six.
Russia has drastically stepped up these airstrikes on major cities beyond the eastern and southern front since last Monday. “All night and all morning, the enemy terrorizes the civilian population,” Zelensky said in his newest statement. “The enemy can attack our cities, but it won’t be able to break us.”
Ukraine has renewed its urgent appeal for the West to send “more air defense systems and as soon as possible,” according to Zelensky’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak. “We have no time for slow actions. More weapons to defend the sky and destroy the enemy,” he stressed. Russia expanded its strikes in the wake of the Kerch Strait Bridge bombing.
Interestingly, a fresh statement Monday by Iran’s foreign ministry has denied widespread international reports of the drone transfers, which The Washington Post and others says is expected to continue.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said over the weekend, “The published news about Iran providing Russia with drones has political ambitions and it’s circulated by western sources. We have not provided weaponry to any side of the countries at war.”
Complicating matters further is that there are reports Israel is poised to “answer” Iranian weapons transfers with its own ramped up support to Ukraine.
According to The Moscow Times:
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev warned Israel against supplying weapons to Ukraine on Monday, saying that any move to bolster Kyiv’s forces would severely damage bilateral ties.
“Israel appears to be getting ready to supply weapons to the Kyiv regime. A very reckless move. It would destroy all bilateral relations between our countries,” the former president wrote on Telegram.
"Kamikaze drone" attacks on Kyiv and other cities this morning:
– 28 drones targeted Kyiv, 5 reached their destination, rest shot down
– critical infrastructure and a residential building hit
– one killed, three wounded in Kyiv
– electricity out in hundreds of towns and villages pic.twitter.com/JbCopEurSI— marqs (@MarQs__) October 17, 2022
Israel has thus far remained reluctant to to jump in too firmly on Ukraine’s side, for example in its persistent refusal to provide the ‘Iron Dome’ defense system, as it must maintain a delicate strategic balance with Russia in Syria.
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Russia rains low tech hell.
The Zman
@TheZBlog
The Russian use of drones is fascinating. I have thought for a long time that the future of drone technology was swarms, not cutting edge smart weapons. Flood the enemy with lots of cheap attack drones. The Russians seem to be evolving in that direction.
Currently, there is no good defense to this new tactic. Traditional air defense systems are built for hitting planes. They were adapted for hitting missiles. In both cases, the defensive missile has something onto which it can lock on and follow.
That is not the case for these drones. SAM systems have to first find the drone using ground based radar then hope to target where it will be rather than lock in on its jet engine. These drones reduce SAM systems to old fashioned anti-aircraft.
On the advice of NATO, Ukraine has tried to use their remaining fighter jets as a defense, but this exposes them to attack and has proven to be only partially effective. The cost of drones is a pittance relative to the cost of fighter aircraft.
https://gab.com/TheZBlog/posts/109183815068751949
$10 Million Dollar Ukrainian MIG-29 “Shot Down” by $10,000 Shahed/Geran2 “Doritos” Drone!
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/10-million-dollar-ukrainian-mig-29-shot-down-by-10000-shahed-geran2-doritos-drone/
Amazed they work. Cheapo Alibaba crap
Ever drive a Chrysler?
Oh, God no! I owned a Plymouth Satellite once. Ran that bitch into the ground in short order. Hand me down from a defunct B.I.L.
A 1968 Satellite Road Runner with the 426 Hemi was quite the car.
Chevelles were much prettier and equal to the task with the 427.
When America was fantastic.
Sorry; NO going back to that time. Only forward to an A.I. technohell unless we rise up together.
Sadly, mine was a 318 and the trunk smelled of rotten conchs from Key Largo until the day it met the crusher. Good riddance to bad baggage.
My first car was a 1972 Cutlass SS. All my friends were driving Subarus and Toyotas. One guy I worked with had a Chevelle. We’d drag race outside the factory parking lot every pay day. No matter what tranny he put in, he couldn’t beat the Rocket 350 automatic.
There’s a meme out there with Jackie Gleason as Buford T. Justice, from Smokey and the Bandit.
“Back in my day, blowing a tranny was car trouble.”
..or something to that effect.
Another one is a guy from The Sopranos with a caption that reads: “Ain’t No Way in Hell the whole Siberian Orchestra is trans!”
Moar resistance and objection to the trend, please.
Picket the libraries, when story time reading to the kids is conducted by drag queens, with the full approval of the advocates of modern Sodom and Gomorrah. Just a thought.
True but that Rocket V8 could snap a universal and you ain’t going nowhere.
Amazed that you haven’t choked to death on huge black dick yet.
At first I thought it was just me. Now I see what a generally wonderful person you really are and it all makes sense.
Cheapo Alibaba crap eating your globalist marionette Zelensky buttboy alive.
Bury your hooked nose deeper in that tranny’s butthole.
HAHAHAHAHA!
Putin it where it counts wrote,
“Amazed they work. Cheapo Alibaba crap”
i thought that during the obama admin iran shot down one of our advanced drones & were able to reverse engineer it, which allowed them to begin a home grown drone industry ?
Let me guess, this will spark another Jerry Lewis style beg-a-thon from Zelenski and the US will send millions more to Ukraine to be laundered.
The stuff we’ve promised so far might be manufactured by the end of 2024. Might.
We don’t send millions, we send billions.
And the money-laundering grifters can’t even send a thank you card.
It’s a shame that drag queens have no shame. Truly shameful.
WTF is a ‘kamikaze’ drone?
Pure propaganda, meant to scare the unthinking sheep.
Kamikaze requires a pilot, or even just any old person, frankly, who will die.
It’s just another drone, a machine without a pilot, and, therefore, not a ‘kamikaze’.
It’s a machine programmed to do whatever it is told, via program, to do. Period.
I guess Teslas are now ‘kamikaze’ cars.
I swear commies write this stuff, on purpose, but without a lick of common sense.
If Israel want to supply weapons to Ukraine, perhaps Russia should consider providing technology to Iran…..
“Zelensky announced that… drones were … attacking all of Ukraine!”
Oh, Crimea river.
stopped reading at “controversially deployed”
We’re so lucky the 8 years Ukrainian shelling of Donbass civilians was not controversial!
It wasn’t controversial in the U.S.
For there to be controversy, people would have had to know about it. No one did. No one cared.
It’s not like the Mockingbird media was going to make a big thing of it.
Fuck ’em. Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes. Darwin rules.
Russia can make drones faster than we can make air defense systems. Checkmate, Russia, in a couple more moves. Blowing the pipelines and the bridge was like sacrificing the Queen and both Castles to take out two Russian Knights. Now Russia cleans the board of Nazis. Come on FJB, you’re such a NWO bad ass, take a couple more swings at the Russian Tar Baby?
When one of those drones flies up Zelinsky’s ass, I’ll be impressed.
Sort of begs the question, “why hasn’t it happened already?” , doesn’t it?
You’d think that with all of them in the air, ONE of them would find its way there by accident!
Ukraine calls for more help , uh huh !!
Please USA send more billions to maintain the puppet government your CIA and State Department set up when we did what you asked ! Ukraine unloaded an elected administration for the Obama Biden puppets and paid the Biden’s millions !
To quote the president “Well Son Of A Bitch the prosecutor holding up our plan got fired !
Now remember the former head of The CIA was keeping a seat warm on the Board Of Burisma for GUESS WHO ??
Hunter Biden !
See how this shit works next stop the CCP payoff’s to US DC Parasites guilty of treason at the most and at the least failure to adhere to their oath of office !
Like the J6 group of 9
This is another ZOG move; Iran just on Saturday announced this: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/10/15/690994/Iran-AEOI-Kamalvandi-enrichment-diplomacy-IAEA-reports-
The Israelis and their illegal nuclear program — check it out for yourself, they are not IAEA-controlled but have an enrichment site, which is a clear violation of Articles I and II of the Non-Proliferation Treaty: https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/npt/text — cannot let the Iranians do it legally, not only because of the obvious religious fanatic associations on both sides, but because that Iran is doing it at all brings attention to Israel. Which they absolutely do not want.
The Iranians also have a growing kill squad to answer Israeli Mossad. All of this is making Israel very nervous.
(Oh, and if you did not know about the secret Israeli site,
It’s only been there since 1958, it’s OK if you didn’t know.)
It’s all fun and games until a drone swarm will drop a personal bomb on, or be used to fire upon, a deserving leader of an adversary state. No matter what side. The Iranian response to Gen. Solemani’s assassination wasn’t even weak milk.
Killing three people, not on the general staff or presidential cabinet level, is a days work in sunny Chicago.