Russia Fires Intercontinental Ballistic Missile in Attack on Ukraine, Kyiv Says
November 21st, 2024Update: “But this kind of a strike might have a value as a signal”
Via: ZeroHedge:
Although RS-26 Rubezh can be used to deliver a thermonuclear warhead or an Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, Thursday morning’s attack on the Dnipro region was non-nuclear, instead some sort of conventional warhead.
“Using these kinds of missiles, whether RS-26 or a true ICBM, in a conventional role does not make a lot of sense because of their relatively low accuracy and high cost,” Pavel Podvig, a senior researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, wrote on X.
“But this kind of a strike might have a value as a signal,” Podvig added.
And yes, it does.
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Via: Reuters:
Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile during an attack on Ukraine on Thursday, Kyiv’s air force said, in the first known use in the war of a powerful weapon designed to deliver nuclear strikes thousands of kilometres away.
The launch was the latest sign of rapidly mounting tensions in the 33-month-old war after Ukraine fired U.S. and British missiles at targets inside Russia this week despite warnings by Moscow that it would see such action as a major escalation.
Scott Ritter, on how this RS-26 missile straddles the classifications of Intermediate and intercontinental, depending on payload:
https://x.com/RealScottRitter/status/1859525610827063710
This video seems to show what Scott is talking about—six independent warheads, each in turn deploying several (4) submunitions:
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1859601062123966526
Another view of the strike:
https://x.com/angeloinchina/status/1859593736793227346
Leaders that deserve to be in their positions would be of the caliber, and have the capacity to do that:
https://x.com/iam_smx/status/1859607222382109079
Here is a very concise explanation by American economist (previously one of the “Harvard Boys”) Jeffery Sachs, detailing how the Neocons and their banker puppeteers got us to where we are:
https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/1859357232112013533
Putin’s message—“when choosing measures to be used in response, such as for systems which were recently tested in Ukraine, we will certainly include warnings to civilians to clear the zones….and we do not have any fears that it will reduce the effectiveness of these systems, because there is no way to counteract a missile that flies at mach 10”:
https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1859655482891436233
Scott Ritter—correction:
“The missile used by Russia was not the RS-26, but rather a previously unknown medium range missile known as the Orezhnik (Hazel)”.
https://x.com/RealScottRitter/status/1859662862207090837
More from Jeffery Sachs — Netanyahu’s indictment and arrest warrant for war crimes, and the capture of the US government decades ago by the Israel lobby and Zionist Neocons (Neobolsheviks):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILxOPAH1bVw
Alex Jones, on the idea that President Trump is actively negotiating a ceasefire with Russia;
https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1859659392473497987
Thank you, NH. I live 20 miles from the former Loring Air Force Base, which is supposedly but not really closed. You can’t see any military personnel there, but the control tower and runways are fully operational. It had nukes in underground silos, maybe still does. There are plainclothes security who follow you around if you drive there.
Sending Russian nukes over the Arctic would be the fastest way to knock it out. How will they warn me? Call me on my landline phone? It would have to be at least a day in advance so I could close up my house and pack up to go. It’s cold and icy here; I don’t want to have to run out in my pajamas.
Sounds like the missile would get here before the sender could move his finger back off the button that says FIRE or OGON’… another reason for warning us in sufficient advance.
I can’t blame Putin for trying to stop us from arming Ukraine so they can shoot at Russia, if that is what he is doing. But it won’t stop Biden’s govt or Trump’s from doing whatever it is they are trying to do. Russian civilians and I and my neighbors could just be collateral damage. Bog s nami, as they say over there.