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TexasTowelie

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Fri Jun 20, 2025, 11:08 PM Jun 20

Russia's Air Defenses Are Failing: Ukraine's Strikes Hit Deep - Jason Jay Smart [View all]



Russia’s air defenses are failing. Ukraine’s strikes are landing deeper—and Russia can’t stop them. Russians - and the Kremlin - realize that there is something going seriously wrong.

🔥In the last 24 hours:
-- 80+ Ukrainian drones hit 10 Russian regions
-- Sirens blared in Volgograd, Belgorod, Kursk, Kaluga, Saratov
-- Volgograd’s airport shut down
-- Russia’s airfields were caught unprepared

💥Since June 1 - all contributing to a disaster for the Kremlin.
-- Operation Spiderweb launched 117 drones
-- Tu-95 and Tu-22 bombers destroyed at Russian airbases
-- Airports in Moscow and Volgograd closed multiple times
-- Trains, bridges, and fuel depots sabotaged
-- Kazakhstan cut off gunpowder exports
-- Israeli airstrikes hit Iranian drone factories supplying Russia

👉 Putin can’t stop the strikes. His border is broken—and the illusion of control is collapsing.
🔥This isn’t a tactical shift. This is the beginning of strategic collapse.
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