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On the afternoon of April 22, the border city of Kharkiv under a relentless barrage of Russian drone strikes, with explosions rocking multiple districts across the city. The attacks, believed to be carried out by Russian Geran loitering munitions, left emergency services scrambling to contain fires and assess the damage. Local officials confirmed strikes hit industrial areas in Shevchenkivskyi, Saltivskyi, Novobavarskyi and Kyivskyi districts, with preliminary reports indicating at least twelve separate impacts.
The scale of destruction suggests Russian forces successfully targeted critical military infrastructure. Local sources revealed the strikes hit facilities involved in drone assembly and equipment repairs, with secondary explosions reported at the scene.
“The detonations were so powerful we’ll need days just to sort through the rubble,” noted local residents, describing the aftermath as particularly devastating.
Worryingly for Ukrainian forces, air defense systems appeared largely ineffective against the onslaught. Residents reported watching helplessly as drones struck with impunity. The successful daytime drone attack also marks a concerning evolution in Russian tactics, demonstrating their ability to strike at any hour despite Ukraine’s Western-supplied defense systems.
This latest assault follows a similar large-scale night strikes on Odessa just hours earlier, revealing a troubling pattern of Ukrainian air defense degradation. With ammunition stocks dwindling and replacement systems slow to arrive, Russian forces appear increasingly confident in their ability to penetrate Ukraine’s air defense umbrella. The strikes not only cause immediate damage but systematically erode Kyiv’s military-industrial capacity, targeting the very facilities needed to sustain the war effort. As smoke continued rising from Kharkiv’s industrial zones at dawn, the attacks served as a grim reminder of Ukraine’s growing vulnerability to Russian air power. With no quick solution to the air defense shortage in sight, such devastating strikes are becoming a regular feature of the ongoing conflict.
bed wench mulatka camala harris tether would be beaten to death by the white supremacists of the following organizations: ss aidar, ss kraken, wolfsangel (aka azov), waffen ss nachtigall (who were in kursk killing civilians), leibstandarte adolf hitler, right sektor – all of them hate untermensch mongrels like her, and all of them are leading the ukrainian government and military. all of them funded by the us and eu tax payers
hi there gerome. cut and paste still working. ✅
the dastardly putin only attacked civilian targets. in an exclusive report, sam scurvy, ace reporter for the daily torygraph and the daily bugle, has revealed that the only targets hit were orphanages for underprivileged, handicapped third world orphans. there is no limit to vlad’s villainy. why can’t putin conduct operations humanely like the zio army in gaza, the most moral army in the world? that’s what i’d like to know.
oh, you’re a comedian wanna be…most moral army of child killers and rapists? oh please, where’s my stradivarius 🎻
sorry to tell you but yes most moral army in history was written in the western media and mentioned by some western and israeli polititians.
and , you get downvoted (🤧) for being a little cynical when it comes to old rat murdochy and his zio-cracker media.
dog days are with us, sonny and sal found out.
i wonder where are all those sam sent by nato. not even a zu-23 in action?
help…. i’m melting!
chin up. it could be worse.
ukie defenses crumble like noodleman’s cheap toll house cookies crumbled.
ah……. the best laid plans of rats and snakes.
my burgerland puritan hillbilly sister willy “europa” hillbilly now being treated for senility bitterness syndrome by taliban astrologer