Morning anons…
I don't know how Russia is restraining itself from NUKING us at this point…
If you are paying attention they CEARLY have battlefield superiority…
I would NOT be surprised if we got a Kinsail launched as DC as a warning…
https://www.rt.com/russia/599789-ukraine-attacks-crimea-atacms/
"The Ukrainian military has launched several US-made ATACMS long-range missiles armed with highly controversial cluster munitions on Russia’s Crimea, resulting in numerous civilian casualties, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.
The strike was first reported by Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev on Sunday, who said that the attack killed at least three people, including two children. According to Russia’s Health Ministry, 124 people were injured, including 27 children.
The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed the Ukrainian attack, which it said took place at around noon local time. Officials said that the shelling involved five ATACMS missiles, four of which were destroyed mid-air.
The remaining one, however, was damaged by air defenses, veered off course and detonated over the city of Sevastopol. As a result, the falling fragments of cluster munitions led to numerous civilian casualties, the statement read."
The White House is reportedly becoming increasingly concerned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could use his upcoming speech in the US Congress to publicly criticize President Joe Biden and his administration’s response to Israel’s war in Gaza.
Netanyahu is set to address a joint session of Congress next month, and “no one knows what he’s going to say,” an unnamed US official told Politico on Saturday.
Earlier this week, the Israeli leader posted a video accusing Washington of “withholding weapons and ammunition to Israel” for several months, calling it “inconceivable.” Netanyahu defended his public criticism as “absolutely necessary after months of quiet conversation that did not solve the problem,” in an interview published on Friday.
The claim “was not helpful at all,” and Netanyahu “could make it far worse up there in front of Congress,” another senior official reportedly told the outlet. Politico added that the speech could create a “diplomatically complicated and politically dicey spectacle for a president running for reelection.”
US officials say Netanyahu hampering efforts to decrease Hezbollah tensions – Axios READ
The White House is concerned that Netanyahu’s rhetoric is deepening the rift between the two allies, according to Axios. While US officials have publicly stated that they “do not know what [Netanyahu] is talking about,” privately, Biden’s team is reportedly “angry and shocked” at the prime minister’s “ingratitude,” with some officials describing him as “unhinged.”
The US paused the delivery of 3,500 bombs to Israel in early May amid calls for it to scale back its assault on the densely-populated city of Rafah in southern Gaza. However, despite Biden’s public warnings he would halt arms shipments, the US reportedly kept the majority of other weapons and ammunition flowing. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the US proceeded with a transfer of $1 billion worth of arms for Israel in May, the same month it stopped the delivery of bombs.
Israel declared war on Hamas after militants killed around 1,200 people and took more than 200 hostages in a surprise attack on October 7. More than 37,000 Palestinians have been killed in the months of fighting that followed, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Last week, CBS News reported that Washington was growing “increasingly concerned” over the possibility of the Israel-Hamas war spiraling into a larger Middle East conflict involving Hezbollah and potentially American troops.
https://www.rt.com/news/599775-biden-fears-netanyahu-visit/
"Washington bears responsibility for the latest Ukrainian missile strike on the city of Sevastopol in Russia’s Crimea, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The attack involving US-supplied ATACMS missiles killed at least three people, including two children, and left more than 120 injured, according to authorities.
The Ukrainian military launched five ATACMS long-range missiles armed with highly controversial cluster warheads at the Crimean Peninsula earlier on Sunday, the ministry said. Four were destroyed by Russian air defenses. One missile was hit but veered off course and detonated over the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol. Falling fragments of its cluster munition warhead led to numerous civilian casualties, including almost 30 children.
“All the flight tasks for the… ATACMS missiles are assigned by American specialists on the basis of their own US satellite intelligence data,” the Defense Ministry said. “Therefore, responsibility for the deliberate missile strike on civilians in Sevastopol lies primarily with Washington, which supplied these weapons to Ukraine, as well as the Kiev regime, from whose territory this attack was launched.”
The Russian military added that these actions will not be “left unanswered.”
In July 2023, the US announced that it would provide Ukraine with cluster munitions. The move sparked outrage in Moscow. These weapons scatter dozens of smaller bombs when detonated. The bomblets, usually spread over large areas, can remain unexploded for years and even decades, posing particularly high risks to densely populated areas.
The weapons are banned in more than 100 countries, including the UK, France, and Germany. However, neither the US, Ukraine, nor Russia signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Nevertheless, Moscow vowed not to use them in the conflict against Kiev in 2023.
Ukraine has previously targeted Crimea with US-made ATACMS missiles. In late May, ten ATACMS were shot down as they were targeting the strategic Crimean Bridge, Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov said at the time.
US media outlets reported that month that Washington had given the green light for the use of US-supplied weapons in Ukraine’s cross-border attacks into Russian territory from the northeastern Kharkov Region. Later, the Pentagon said Kiev could do so beyond Kharkov Region as well.
AP reported, citing sources, that the administration of US President Joe Biden still does not allow Ukraine to use ATACMS missiles with a range of up to 300km to strike deep inside Russia. President Vladimir Putin warned that the use of Western weapons in Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory is “close to aggression.”
https://www.rt.com/russia/599795-moscow-blames-washington-crimea-attack/