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The plant that went up in flames reportedly manufactures equipment for the Russian military.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd love to know if all these drone strikes and explosions deep into Russian territory are some spy shit going down or partisans or whatever. It's going to make for some interesting documentaries in years to come I think

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Probably it's just Putin bombing his ~~slaves~~ citizens to justify some extreme action against Ukraine in the near future. I mean he did that before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where does the term partisans come from? I’ve only seen it used recently in relation to this war

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

https://www.etymonline.com/word/partisan

It’s pretty old. I’ve heard it most of my life in this usage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Goes back to WW2 at least. Russian partisans fucked the germans up behind the frontlines.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

That was an impressive one. Not just blocking the "special military operation is contained" narrative like the other deep strikes, but also hitting high tech war supplies.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Those careless smokers get everywhere...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just read the military optics company was renting warehouse space to a pyrotechnics company. So, this is either a successful operation or a horrible reminder not to put tactical magnifying glasses next to a giant pile of fireworks when the sun is out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The owner of the pyrotechnics company denied this. The targeted factory was reportedly connected to the manufacturing of a next-generation bomber.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fortunately, nothing of value was lost.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Will someone please think about the водка! There were likely ~~several~~ ~~dozens~~ thousands of bottles that sacrificed everything during this event.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe this is what Russians get for giving Putin free reign for a quarter of a century.

Don't want to see anyone get hurt, but FFS the Russian people just went along with it when Putin came to power and steadily gained ever more control of the government. The Russian people could have stopped this 10, 15, 20 years ago but didn't. Now they have an entrenched mad man in there who controls everything, has gotten them into a pointless war in Ukraine, and clearly shows no sign of stepping down.

Attacks on Russian soil have only started.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Russians have tried to get him out of office but then they get arrested, radiation poisoning or suicided.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They've had protests, sure, and individuals have tried to go up against him, but never in the masses needed to overthrow his government.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sadly Bill Clinton and Tony Blair backed Putin initially. It's not totally the people's fault.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Bill was President up until 2001 and Putin gained power only 2 years earlier. At the time there was no reason not to support him. He was a freely elected leader. But that was 2 decades ago and a whole lot of things changed since then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Merkel as well

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

unpleasant situation for ru worms

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Are there no other sources for this besides the daily beast?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This is exceptionally interesting considering the fact that Ukraine has made great use of western-supplied night vision against Russian forces. It seems logical that they would want to deny such an advantage to their enemies.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hmmm. Any chance Putin was caught in the blast? Fucking piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The bitch is hiding in a bunker he was nowhere near this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I know. What a shame.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Inbred Thundercunt

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Any other news outlet reporting on this?