Astonishing moment Putin’s ICBM pierces through the sky during Ukraine onslaught

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-21 13:07:59 | Updated at 2024-11-28 00:51:57 6 days ago

Astonishing moment Putin’s ICBM pierces through the sky during Ukraine onslaught
Metro UK ^ | 11/21/2024 | Gergana Krasteva

Posted on 11/21/2024 4:44:29 AM PST by marcusmaximus

Vladimir Putin has allegedly unleashed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) on Ukraine – for the first time during the more than 1,000 days of his war – in a message to the West.

This morning’s attack from Russia’s southern Astrakhan region comes 24 hours after Ukraine deployed US and British missiles on targets inside Russia.

Footage circulating on Telegram channels shows the strike on the central-eastern city of Dnipro, starting at around 5am local time.

If confirmed, the hit would serve as a chilling reminder of Russia’s nuclear capability.

It was also just two days ago that Putin signed a revised nuclear doctrine that formally lowers Russia’s threshold for the use of nuclear weapons.

(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...

TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: icbm; putin; rs26; russia

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MIRVs caught on video.

To: marcusmaximus

Pretty sure those are launches played in reverse, not impacts of incoming rockets.

2 posted on 11/21/2024 4:45:40 AM PST by DocRock

To: DocRock

I noticed the same thing....no explosions on impast.

3 posted on 11/21/2024 4:47:51 AM PST by wny

To: DocRock

Please don’t be a schizo.
They are clearly impacts, watch the fire. And I’ve seen this video with a timestamp elsewhere.

4 posted on 11/21/2024 4:48:19 AM PST by Crazieman

To: wny

Dummy warheads, entirely kinetic.

5 posted on 11/21/2024 4:50:21 AM PST by Crazieman

To: DocRock

My first thoughts as well. No boom boom.

6 posted on 11/21/2024 4:50:54 AM PST by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)

To: marcusmaximus

Putin is getting desperate.

He both fears and welcomes a Trumpian solution to the war.

This is positioning for negotiations.

7 posted on 11/21/2024 4:59:00 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )

To: marcusmaximus

From the article:

Pavel Podvig, director of the Russian Nuclear Forces Project, stressed that this kind of a strike ‘might have a value as a signal’.

He wrote in a thread on X that one must be ‘skeptical and cautious’ about the claims, adding: ‘Regarding the “intercontinental” claim, the distance from Kapustin Yar to Dnipro is about 800 km. It is not an intercontinental range.’

He added later: ‘Using these kinds of missiles, whether RS-26 or a true ICBM, in a conventional role does not make a lot of sense because of their relatively low accuracy and high cost. But this kind of a strike might have a value as a signal.’

To: Crazieman

"Please don’t be a schizo. They are clearly impacts, watch the fire. And I’ve seen this video with a timestamp elsewhere."

There are numerous reports RS-26 were used which simple searches show a max speed of Mach 20. This video is all over the interwebs in the last few hours and it looks like edited launches in reverse, not Mach-20 inbounds. I live close to the Cape and watch a lot of launches. I was close enough to the SpaceX launch on Monday that I felt it. Low ceiling gave the exact appearance on that launch as this video in reverse and sped up.

What's a shizo?

9 posted on 11/21/2024 5:01:38 AM PST by DocRock

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10 posted on 11/21/2024 5:03:06 AM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")

To: Crazieman

11 posted on 11/21/2024 5:06:35 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)

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