MOSCOW, June 23 (Reuters) - Russia said on Sunday that the United States was responsible for a Ukrainian attack on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula with five U.S.-supplied missiles that killed at least five people including three children and injured 124 more.
The Russian Defence Ministry said four of the U.S.-delivered Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles, equipped with cluster warheads, were shot down by air defence systems and the ammunition of a fifth had detonated in mid-air.
I know everyone’s here dunking on the hypocrisy of Russia making this complaint and that is valid but it’s still sad this happened and I personally don’t think the US should be distributing cluster munitions which are inherently more dangerous to civilians.
USA shouldn’t be producing/using cluster shells in the first place.
The end doesn’t justify the means
Maybe if Russia wasn’t in Crimea, they wouldn’t have to worry about getting bombed?
Crazy idea
I believe the US isn’t creating more of these, and they are used in Ukraine because it’s their choice to deploy these munitions on their land
Us basically never uses em anyway. I think they fired less than 100 during the whole GWOT. Ukraine is getting old stock that was going to have to be decommissioned soon. And let’s be really real here. They are FUCKING Russia up. One of the first batch wrecked a shitload of helicopters. Subsequent ones have hit other airfields and critical equipment. There’s a video of a single missile taking out 3 or 4 S-400s. Catastrophic cook-offs.
I’m not convinced this whole thing isn’t bullshit by Russia to turn public opinion against ATACMS just because they’ve been so effective primarily because they can’t fucking intercept them. In the video I mentioned before, their best air defense platforms fired 6 total missiles to intercept ONE and FAILED. This article claims 4 ATACMS shot down. Not a goddamn chance that’s true. It’s more likely Russia accidentally bombed a civilian area like they have several times already.
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Putin can choke a fat syphilitic dick. Arm Ukraine to the teeth and launch an earnest hybrid war against the blyats. Fuck russia.
No Russia is completely responsible, if they hadn’t occupied it, Ukraine wouldn’t have to fight to get it back. Fuck Russia your rhetoric is stupid. The Russians are the Nazis and Putin will die in a bunker.
…I’m hoping for Putin to be brought in and put on alcatraz. Yes, I know it’s been abandoned as a jail. I figure fuck it, put him in, lock him up, and then absndon it again. If he lives he lives, if he starves, he starves.
My guess is on starving.
The entire GOP would be on site the next day after his interment to spring him loose and take turns sucking him off.
Let them, just also let them know that any boats that reach the island will be immediately sank and any aircraft will be forced down into the water.
If they live they live, if they starve they’ll starve (or they’ll play weekend at Donner’s).
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