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Ukrainian officials say their military is now using a long-range missile that was designed and manufactured domestically and can reach targets inside Russia

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[–] DarienGS 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Or, they've found a viable way to disguise donated long-range missiles so they can be used to strike back at Russia without implicating the country that provided them.

[–] Telodzrum 28 points 1 year ago

These are 100% identifiable from debris. No one would be fooled by such a farce.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At this point, if Russia stated they were hit with a long range missile from "Country X" and provided pictures of identifiable debris, would anyone actually believe them?

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

Hexbear would!

[–] Wodge 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I doubt anyone would actually care. They're getting weapons from NATO members, Russia wouldn't do anything in retaliation.

[–] MotoAsh 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Russia would VERY MUCH care, and so would any NATO nation for what it'd mean. If a NATO weapon hits Russia, Russia will at minimum start actually threatening nuclear strikes, and probably throw down a lot more of their military to start threatening NATO directly.

No, they wouldn't win sh*t anyways, even if they started using the four nukes that are still operational, but a properly thrashing Russia would be very ugly for the whole region regardless of how fast NATO 'could' end Russia.

[–] Wodge 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Russia has already threatened nuclear strikes. Russia is all threats and no hot sauce. No one believes Putey any more.

[–] MotoAsh 0 points 1 year ago

Oh I know, but after he'd me making threats he actually meant (and still couldn't pull off) while impotently pounding his fist on a mile long table.

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

does it matter?

[–] Dremor 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would have been a possibility if someone donated them some. Wich isn't the case yet, at least officially.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not going to officially admit to receiving a missile you're planning to plausibly deny using.

[–] Dremor 2 points 1 year ago

Sure. Absence of proof isn't proof of absence, but nor is it a proof of occurence. Best we can do is to wait for someone to do an error in order to be able to know a bit more.