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RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service August 20, 2022
Drone Strikes Headquarters Of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet In Ukraine’s Occupied Crimea Region
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The headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine’s occupied Crimea region was hit by a drone attack early on August 20, a Russia-installed administrator reported.
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Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-installed administrator of the port city of Sevastopol, posted on Telegram that the drone crashed into the roof of the building and that there were no casualties.
Never mind.
They did that before during WWII.
In 1941, as Nazi German troops swept through Soviet-era Ukraine, Josef Stalin’s secret police blew up a hydroelectric dam in the southern city of Zaporizhzhya to slow the Nazi advance.
The explosion flooded villages along the banks of the Dnieper River, killing thousands of civilians.
What is the ground-level fog I keep seeing in video footage of the nuclear plant? Is this some kind of distributed cooling tower/field thingie? Good example in the pic at the top of this article:
I think so. A large open air pool is by the plant, with what appears to be a sprinkler system. Waste storage? That would often cause local fog/mist that might spread quite a bit at the right temperatures and such.
But that area might be just for cooling reactor water? Same fog effect though.
When families split over the war; Russian member of upper house calls daughter “traitor”
Latest 8-20-2022 aid package piecemeal listing.
The new assistance package will include:
16 105mm howitzers and ammunition [36,000 105 mm artillery rounds]
AGM-88 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM) [qty not specified]
Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems [qty not specified]
15 Scan Eagle reconnaissance drones
1,000 Javelins
mine clearing equipment
40 mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles with mine clearance rollers, to allow Ukrainian troops to travel through areas rigged with mines;
1,500 TOW [tube-launched optically tracked wire-guided] missiles [1st time for TOWs, exact version not specified, probably includes tripods for launching from HUMVEEs.
2,000 anti-armor rounds [reloads for Carl Gustav - AT4 launchers] 84mm rockets.
50 Humvees
Tactical secure communication systems
Night vision devices
Thermal imagery systems
Optics and laser range finders
Demolition equipment
I always appreciate your updates on the war material.
Especially intriguing have those updates delivered by Toad. 
Darya Dugin, Alexander Dugin’s daughter was just assassinated in Moscow with a car bomb. Unclear if she was the target or who was behind it. Either way, good riddance. Curious if it was house cleaning or Ukraine.
Her father Alexander Dugin was the likely target. Though it still will make the point.
Maybe I’m just too sensitive, but it doesn’t seem reasonable to go after a Putin henchman’s family members who aren’t involved in Dad’s political activities. Seems ethically shaky to me.
I’m hoping Dad, who would be a valid target, was in fact the intended target, and it was very bad luck for his daughter.
She was the same political animal as the father. Outspokenly in favor of the Ukraine “special operation.” She did TV and social media posts.
Daughter of Putin Propagandist Killed in Car Bomb Outside Moscow
Darya Dugina had been outspoken in her support of Russia’s war against Ukraine. As evidence began to pile up in April of Russian war crimes in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Dugina argued in an interview that the slaughter of civilians had been staged, bizarrely claiming that the U.S. had chosen the city because in English the name sounds like “butcher.” She was also sanctioned by the U.S. government in March in connection with her role in a Kremlin-run influence operation known as Project Lakhta.
To me it seems very possible the attack came from Russian political rivals, or other Russian-concerned source — rather than from someone trying to assist Ukraine.
I hadn’t known the daughter was firmly in her father’s political camp. Don’t feel QUITE so bad now, since she’s a fan of the “let’s take away our neighbors’ autonomy” bit.
I read that her dad was the thought to be the target and was expected to be in the car.
However odious he may be, he’s a civilian.