Ukrainian officials on Friday said Russian forces launched their biggest drone attack on Ukraine in weeks, which is being seen as preparation for more fighting to come this winter.
Russia sent some 40 kamikaze drones and a cruise missile, with the Ukrainian military saying it shot down up to half of the drones and intercepted the inbound missile. Ukrainian anti-air systems were reported to be active across ten regions, including in western Lviv, which is far from the front lines of fighting in the east and south.
Ukraine’s President Zelensky condemned the broad assault, saying “As winter approaches, Russian terrorists will try to cause more harm.” While there were no casualties reported, he posted a video showing firefighters battling a huge blaze after a drone impacted a building.
Zelensky vowed to a war-ravaged and weary nation, “We are strengthening air defense. We are strengthening mobile fire groups.”
The New York Times has documented, “Data from the Ukrainian military shows that Russia has recently increased its drone assaults against Ukraine, targeting it with nearly 650 Iranian-made Shahed drones in the past two months, compared with about 450 in July and August.”
Separately on Friday a NYT op-ed has claimed that Russia, China, and Iran are banding together to give support to Hamas and Iranian proxies in the Mideast region, which heightens tensions and the potential for a broader war:
“The conflict between Israel and Hamas is fast becoming a world war online. Iran, Russia and, to a lesser degree, China have used state media and the world’s major social networking platforms to support Hamas and undercut Israel, while denigrating Israel’s principal ally, the United States,” authors Steven Lee Myers and Sheera Frenkel wrote.
“Iran’s proxies in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have also joined the fight online, along with extremist groups, like al-Qaida and the Islamic State, that were previously at odds with Hamas,” they said.
VIDEO — Russia launched a massive drone attack early Friday, hitting critical infrastructure in the west and south of Ukraine and destroying private houses and commercial buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city pic.twitter.com/JEQw51RdjW
— DAILY SABAH (@DailySabah) November 3, 2023
The op-ed ultimately concludes with this claim: “While Iran, Russia and China each have different motivations in backing Hamas over Israel, they have pushed the same themes since the war began. They are not simply providing moral support, the officials and experts said, but also mounting overt and covert information campaigns to amplify one another and expand the global reach of their views across multiple platforms in multiple languages.”
The Biden administration has actually made similar accusations, charging that Moscow wishes to sow destabilization in the Middle East, and also condemned the Kremlin for hosting a Hamas delegation last month for crisis talks related to the situation in Gaza.
It is my sincere desire to provide readers of this site with the best unbiased information available, and a forum where it can be discussed openly, as our Founders intended. But it is not easy nor inexpensive to do so, especially when those who wish to prevent us from making the truth known, attack us without mercy on all fronts on a daily basis. So each time you visit the site, I would ask that you consider the value that you receive and have received from The Burning Platform and the community of which you are a vital part. I can't do it all alone, and I need your help and support to keep it alive. Please consider contributing an amount commensurate to the value that you receive from this site and community, or even by becoming a sustaining supporter through periodic contributions. [Burning Platform LLC - PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
-----------------------------------------------------
To donate via Stripe, click here.
-----------------------------------------------------
Use promo code ILMF2, and save up to 66% on all MyPillow purchases. (The Burning Platform benefits when you use this promo code.)
I’ll wait to get the real truth from Doug MacGregor and Scott Ritter.
Why wait?, its a global chess game wherein nations that oppose the current but fast fading US / western global hedgemonic “rules based order ” are trying to topple the already teetering ,past its sell by date , current world order . Now , these nations needn’t be particularly more ” the good guys “or morally perfect for us to be able to see their reason and rationale for trying to do so because obviously the US hedgemony had gotten way to big for its britches and drunk on its own hubris ( thinking it was invincible ) its unipolar moment following the cold war economic defeat of the USSR . US took all its power and gradually became basically a bully on the world stage , something I had “what if’d” “a long long time ago , and I can still remember when “( bye bye miss American pie / Don Mclean )
So, when will” the Father ,Son and the Holy Ghost, take the last train for the coast ” ? I don’t know, but the music is surely already dead ?
The truth is nobody cares about Ukraine or Russia anymore
The effect on NATO is going to be interesting with this failure.
“Kiev has yet to acknowledge reality. The Ukrainian state has been bleeding out – financially as well as physically. Its masters have found that their aim at the start of the war – to weaken Russia – has led to the opposite. Russia now has a bigger and better armed military with more real war experience than any of its possible opponents.
Russia has won.”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/11/the-ukraine-peace-talk-trial-balloon.html#more
and they were always going to win
Zelenski is a coward. He betrayed his own country because he feared the Nazi’s who threatened him. He now faces death from multiple enemies, and he is consumed by fear. He has destroyed Ukraine, and the country will never return to being a normal functioning country, and will instead be relegated to being a rump state, in which poverty and corruption will make the lives of the people sheer misery.
Zelenski’s legacy will be as the man who destroyed Ukraine, when he was given every opportunity to save it.
Dude will probably fade away into history filthy rich, living in a secret hideaway mansion somewhere or constantly roaming the seven seas in a confiscated Russian oligarch mega yacht with hookers and blow, maybe with Hunter. Maybe he will get wacked because he knows too much but I don’t think so.
He served his temporary purpose.
He has a place in Florida.
Concerted “Goal” ?
Destroy It
NOT Rocket Science. Even (f)elon could see that.
. . .but.. but. . Joey has it all under control while he recharges the last two brain cells left in Rehoboth this weekend
They are all on the same team.
The purpose of war is to remove people from land you want.
“Ukrainian officials on Friday said”
That’s enough right there to tag this whole thing as bullshit.
Once Zelensky discovers that he played the part of Judas in this charade… .. I’m guessing he will hang himself.