r/worldnews • u/PewPewPoker • 12h ago

Russia/Ukraine Ukraine Hits Russia’s Biggest Baltic Port as 516 Drones Reportedly Swarm Russian Skies as NATO Jets Scramble Over Estonia

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/83481
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u/dogchocolate 10h ago

Leningrad, for a moment I read Kalingrad. Just imagine if that were possible.

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u/abadd0n 12h ago

It says 516 drones destroyed, wondering how many made their target? Seems like a solid defence system if thats the case

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u/Dodislav 11h ago

Russia routinely claims every drone gets shot down and it's always only debris hitting the targets by accident.

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u/oskich 9h ago

"1 ton high explosive debris"

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u/Effroyablemat 5h ago

They also claimed that an explosion was caused by smoking a cigarette near explosive materials. Unlike in movies,a lit cigarette is actually a very poor ignition source.

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u/Ephialties 6h ago

still cracks me up seeing that AA missile completely miss a drone and blow up a gas silo of some kind.

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u/iggyqut 12h ago

*says moscow

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u/NecessarySudden 12h ago

Jokes aside Moscow is one of the best air defended city in the world. That's why Ukraine works hard on its own ballistic missiles, because it's hard to penetrate with drones only. Flamingo is big and easy target for classic AA complexes, so it would be wasted

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u/OmerosP 12h ago

Moscow wasn’t the target.

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u/NecessarySudden 11h ago

Yeah, my bad. But Saint Petersburg is not far from that terms of air defense

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u/Aedeus 6h ago

Weren't drones operating practically at will during the recent economic forum there?

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u/Kamunet 8h ago

Yet Moscow is hit by drones daily

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u/seanroberts196 9h ago

That didn't stop that 17 year old kid in his cessner flying to red square in the eighties.

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u/NecessarySudden 9h ago

But It's not eighties anymore

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u/seanroberts196 9h ago

Tell that to their tanks in Ukraine.

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u/imjustsurfin 11h ago

" Russia claimed 516 drones were destroyed nationwide"

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u/IxyCRO 8h ago

Well to be fair, all of the drones that hit their targets are destroyed.

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u/Polish_Panda 4h ago

The art of blocking punches with my face...

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u/-CPR- 5h ago

Video usually comes out eventually of targets hit. We just wait and see.

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u/Corodix 5h ago

For all we know all 516 hit their target, they'd have been destroyed either way.

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u/malac0da13 6h ago

I didn’t see anywhere that said whose drones violated Estonia airspace. Was it Russia’s that were trying to intercept Ukraine’s and missed or Ukraine using Estonian airspace without approval?