Ukrainian Attack Helicopters Just Slipped Into Russia And Blew Up A Fuel Depot

[BlueWavePsych]

Source: Forbes

In an incredible feat of airmanship and planning, a pair of Ukrainian Mi-24 attack helicopters slipped across the border with Russia on Friday morning and lobbed 25-pound unguided rockets at a fuel depot in Belgorod, igniting a blaze that burned through the daylight hours.

It’s not the first time Ukrainian forces have struck military facilities in Belgorod, which lies just 25 miles north of the border and 50 miles from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Russian troops have besieged Kharkiv since early in Russia’s six-week-old assault on Ukraine.

Three days before the Mi-24 raid, the Ukrainian army struck a separate depot in Belgorod with Tochka ballistic missiles. But the Friday raid was special. Not only for its impact on the Kremlin’s fuel stocks near Kharkiv—but also for its psychological effect.

A member of Russia’s emergency services wasn’t shy about the damage the Ukrainian Mil crews inflicted. “There are 16 tanks in the seat of the fire,” the official told state media. “The fire occurs in eight tanks with fuel and gasoline, occupying two thousand cubic meters, there is a threat of the fire spreading to another eight.”


Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/04/01/ukrainian-attack-helicopters-just-slipped-into-russia-and-blew-up-a-fuel-depot/

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[Bayard]

1. Take THAT, Putin!

[oldsoftie]

2. Now go after railroads & bridges (if there are any important ones) leading into UKR

I'd say the Kremlin too, but thats probably a pipe dream.

[KS Toronado]

16. My pipe dream about the Kremlin.....

We're secretly training Ukrainian pilots to fly F-22/F-35 stealth fighters that can carry a bomb big enough
to turn the Kremlin into a huge pile of rubble with Putler somewhere at the bottom.

[oldsoftie]

42. Talk about "shock & Awe'

[lagomorph777]

3. We need to make sure Ukraine has plenty of big weapons to take the fight into Russia.

All the supplies for the invasion come across the border. Russia launches many missiles and artillery rounds across the border. The only way to stop them is AT THE SOURCE.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. tee-hee, tee-hee.

This is the "find out" part.

[NCjack]

5. Regarding the fuel tanks: Spread, Baby! Spread!

That attack is so unfair by Ukraine.

[getagrip_already]

6. russia will now declare it is under attack by a hostile foreign power.....or even claim it was nato

poor boobalas...... everyne is picking on them.

but sadly pooter will probably get some nationalist surge from this.

[Roc2020]

7. Nice! when is the Kremlin

next? stop beating around the bush. The only end to this war is to hit the Kremlin and Moscow cost it what it will.

[PSPS]

39. The window of opportunity to do that closed 77 years ago.

Patton wanted to just keep going from Germany to Moscow but that idea was rejected. Everyone just wanted World War II to end.

[AncientOfDays]

8. And now ...

... the Russians are trying to make the Ukrainians as the villains - just like MAGAts everywhere.

[Efilroft Sul]

9. If it's not a false flag event, then this incident doesn't speak well of Russian air defenses.

[gab13by13]

12. Good bet the helicopters flew over the treetops.

Daring raid. We need to send them drones with Hellfire missiles.

[machoneman]

31. Great move! The Israeli AF did similar raids into Eqypt and other countries long ago.

[oldsoftie]

43. I've wondered if we could flag some predators UKR & have them piloted out of Poland.

be tough to prove & with UKR markings they could claim it as theirs if shot down

[Igel]

50. And that's how the Ukr info services are reporting on Russian soc med.

variant 1: "We're awesome, right? So how did they do this? How *dare* they get so lucky?"

variant 2, old school: "we can express indignation. But by doing so we say how pathetic our side is."

%age for 1 versus 2?

Can't know.

[Jerry2144]

10. It now seems like Ukraine is

exercising the joke, "What do you do when a Russian lobs a grenade at you? You pull the pin and throw it back!" The Russians really are arming the Ukrainian people.

[AllyCat]

11. Isn't that the truth?

[dchill]

20. That's hysterical/historical!

[mitch96]

33. LMFAO!!! A good one for sure..nt

[Vogon_Glory]

13. That's what can happen if both sides use similar

equipment. The Russians also use Mi-24 helicopters. Someone (or several someone’s) in charge of the local air defenses must have assumed that the helicopters were friendliest.

In any even, I’d hate to be a Russian pilot flying a Mi-24 near Belgorod right now.

[KS Toronado]

14. Where the helicopter pilots card carrying members of Anitfa?

[thucythucy]

53. Well, if you consider this is all part of the "de-Nazification" of Russia,

then yeah, most definitely.

[Joinfortmill]

15. Russians need to remove Putin before they become pariahs of the world.

[Moebym]

29. Sadly, they're largely brainwashed, so

No, not happening.

[calimary]

17. Pardon my weirdness.

I actually feel sorry for the bear in that cartoon.

I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW - symbolism and all that. But a flaming Vlad would have been so much more fun (not to mention more deserving!) to visualize!

[W T F]

18. Ukraine is conducting a "special military operation" inside Russia.

[CaptainTruth]

27. "Special fuel operation"

[ffr]

28. .

[iluvtennis]

19. Excellent news!

[dchill]

21. That's gonna be the LAST STRAW for Tuckster!

[Marcuse]

22. Putin's Black Sea bachelor pad is nearby.

[left-of-center2012]

32. nope

Attack happened north of the Ukraine border (a fuel depot in Belgorod).
Black Sea is south of Ukraine.

[Marcuse]

36. No, I'm thinking of Gelendzhik nearby the Ukrainian lines.

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The red quadrangle is a no fly zone.

[left-of-center2012]

37. And this is where they attacked. Way up north.

[Marcuse]

40. You are describing the past. I am speculating about future missions.

[left-of-center2012]

44. "future missions" ?

Your post “Putin's Black Sea bachelor pad is nearby” ...
It’s a direct response to the OP which is about the recent attack at Belgorod
(note the line connecting that post to the OP).

Anyway, enough of this.


711.47 miles away.

[Marcuse]

48. Agreed.

[mitch96]

34. now THAT would piss him off BIG TIME!!!NT

[tanyev]

23. Like bullseyeing womp rats.

[iluvtennis]

24. From NPR...

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb0OrivOtQ4/

npr Russian officials said Friday that Ukrainian helicopters struck an oil depot in the Russian city of Belgorod, about 20 miles from the border with Ukraine. Ukraine refused to confirm or deny the report.

[oldsoftie]

45. Wonder if UKR should say "It was Russian pilots against this illegal war"

Instead of claiming credit

[SheltieLover]

25. Good!

[ffr]

26. Those are clearly Russian helicopters firing Russian rockets. A Putin false flag operation

Very strange sense of humor, to be attacking your own fuel depots on April Fool's day in order to drum up nationalistic support for his special military operation.

[AntiFascist]

47. Ukraine has Soviet era attack helicopters...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/45020/ukrainian-mi-24-attack-helicopters-fly-daring-cross-border-strike-on-russia-reports

The helicopters involved in the raid would have been Soviet-era Mi-24 Hinds, which are operated by the Ukrainian Army Aviation. These aircraft saw extensive action during the conflict in eastern Ukraine, the so-called Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO), in 2014 and 2015, sustaining several losses in the process. Nevertheless, after this campaign was wound down, the Ukrainian Army Aviation was left with four brigades of Mi-24s, dominated by the 30mm-cannon-armed Mi-24P Hind-F version. Western analysts put the total active Ukrainian Hind fleet at 34, prior to the latest hostilities.

[ffr]

49. Those versions are also readily available in 48 nations too.

So unless they were stolen from the Ukrainian military or were old Russian inventory or re-allocated from some other fleet five weeks into an invasion that hasn't gone to plan from day one, there remains the distinct possibility that Putin did this...like he was suspected of doing, by blowing up Russian apartment high rises to justify invading Chechnya.

Until Ukraine owns this raid, I'm not going to assume they did. Because if Putin escalates the war atrocities with weapons of mass destruction, I'll put money on it that Putin did it as the grounds to do so.

[AntiFascist]

51. Ali Velshi just announced on Rachel Maddow's show that...

NBC has confirmed that the airstrike was performed by Ukrainian forces.

[ffr]

52. Sweet!

[Duppers]

30. Heard that British MI-7 helped.

British Intelligence. 👍

[wnylib]

46. Where did you hear that?

Doesn't seem like something an intelligence agency would talk about in wartime, especially not from a country that is not involved in direct fighting. They would not want to jeopardize their own nation, not to mention NATO.

[Hekate]

35. "What? Zelensky's not afraid this will make things worse with Putin?" said hubby...

And added something admiring about the size of Zelensky’s balls.

Exactly.

[kairos12]

38. Gas companies will use this to continue to raise gas prices. No doubt. Good on Ukraine.

Wonderful cartoon. I would like to make a Teeshirt with this on it.

[keithbvadu2]

41. Well, that's embarrassing.

Well, that's embarrassing.