• canadaduane@lemmy.ca
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    OMG:

    He disclosed that in December Ukrainian authorities had been on the brink of ordering the complete evacuation of Kyiv due to the intensity of Russian airstrikes. “Not many people know this, but Kyiv was on the verge of evacuation,” he said. “There was one battle that, in my opinion, determined the fate of Kyiv and the Russian campaign to destroy our energy sector, when 49 cruise missiles were launched at Kyiv.”

    In a desperate 15 minutes on December 16, Ukraine fired dozens of missiles from its Soviet-era S-300, American Nasams and German Iris-T systems to save the city from total blackout in freezing temperatures.

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    The other I watched a video about the brand new Russian tank flagship. So badly made it was hilarious.

    Putin is making a cardboard army to lure his people into the Great Russia trope. Unfortunately they take the lie.

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      Shrapnel kills things when a fragmentation warhead explodes at a proper distance from the target. If a missile gets blown up thousands of feet in the air the only way it’s hurting anyone is if a large piece falls on their head and brains them.

    • BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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      Sure. But a shrapnel hitting something random is better than an explosive + shrapnel hitting its target.