Russia Launches Missile/Drone Barrage on Ukraine

Aug. 27—Overnight, Russia “unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage throughout Ukraine Aug. 26 that appeared to target energy infrastructure,” AP reported . Explosions were heard in the capital, Kyiv. Power and water supplies in the city have been disrupted by the attack, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. In the wake of the barrage, the city administration announced plans to open “points of invincibility”—shelter-type places where people can charge their devices and get refreshments during energy blackouts. 

(The AP report cites Ukrainian officials putting casualties at three dead and three wounded. Such figures show precision with which Russia is condcting this war in general, which has seen almost 700,000 Ukrainian miliary dead, and relatively very small number of civilian casualties; compare this to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu's murderous rampage in Gaza, for which the United States supplies weapons.)

The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the barrage in a statement posted on its Telegram channel in which it reported that strikes were delivered at power substations in Kyiv, Vinnitsa, Zhitomir, Khmelnitsky, Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Nikolayev, Kirovograd, and Odessa regions, on gas pumping stations in Lvov, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Kharkov regions and on munitions depots at airfields in the Kyiv and Dnepropetrovsk regions. "All the assigned targets have been destroyed resulting in power outages and disruption of railway transportation of arms and ammunition to the line of contact, it said.

There were also unconfirmed reports that Russian forces destroyed a Patriot anti-missile battery near Kyiv with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and may have destroyed two F-16s in a hangar in Ivano-Frankivsk. Further on the F-16s, Avia.pro, citing Ukrainian sources, reported that there was a desperate effort by the Ukrainian air force to get them into the air during the Russian attack, to prevent them from being destroyed on the ground. 

Sources report that the attacks were in part a response to NAO's continuing terrorist assault on Russian homeland by Ukraine's invasion force. As military sources have explained, the Ukrainian invasion is actually a cover for Waffen-SS like terrorist operations being conducted against noncombatant civilian population by highly mobile patrols. The Russians have successfully countered these terrorist operations by deploying special forces anti-terrorist units, while using regular army forces to destroy huge numbers of the invading military forces, with casualty rates among the invaders running at more than 50%.  The Russians are expected to soon perform a flanking maneuver which cut off the invading force from supply and reinforcement, which will result in their surrender or total destruction, in short order.