Poking The Bear: Ukraine Increases Strikes Hundreds Of Miles Deep Into Russia, Zelensky Praises Operations

SEE: Escalation: Biden Gives Ukraine Greenlight To Fire Lethal Long-Range Ballistics Deep Into Russia. Russia Warns Of Retaliation

Business Insider reported today:

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In late July, Ukraine said it had struck a Russian Tu-22M3 supersonic bomber at Olenya airbase in Murmansk, a record-breaking 1,100 miles inside Russian territory.

While the news grabbed headlines, it was not the first time that Ukraine has reportedly targeted sites deep within Russia.

In June, the GUR defense intelligence agency said Ukrainian forces had hit a prized Russian Su-57 fighter jet stationed at an airfield in the Astrakhan region of southern Russia, around 360 miles from the frontline.

And in May, Ukraine’s Security Service said a long-range Ukrainian drone struck a Gazprom oil refinery roughly 930 miles away in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan.

Ukraine does not currently have permission to use long-range guided weapons such as the ATACMS to hit such targets inside Russia.

It has instead made use of cheap, domestically-produced drones for long-range attacks, Mark Cancian, a Senior Adviser on the International Security Program at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, told BI.

“These are packed with explosives and flown deep into Russia,” Cancian said.

While striking targets so far from the frontline may be seen as Ukraine spreading itself rather thinly, such attacks have three key benefits, experts told BI.

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Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky praised these deep strikes within Russian occupied space.

I would like to thank each of our soldiers and all those who work in our defence industry for striking Russian airfields, oil refineries and logistics.

Every strike that accurately responds to Russia’s bombs, that destroys Russian logistics, Russian bases, that makes it more difficult for the occupier to stay on our land. Every such strike brings the just end of the war closer.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

For obvious reasons, this blatant provocation will only escalate this war and cause Russia to respond; which then will cause the U.S. and NATO to say, ‘See, we told you Putin is a boogie monster that needs to be stopped!’

Mark 13:7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. [8] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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