Putin Strikes Kyiv

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

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Monday's missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv was one of the most intense strikes in the fifteen month long war. The Russians claimed they were striking anti-aircraft installations, which seems highly suspect. So was there an overall strategic objective to be gained, or is Vladimir Putin merely making things explode for the benefit of his domestic audience? Join our elite squad of anti-elitists by becoming a Citizen Producer today: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0	It was the biggest missile attack on Keeve yet Monday night in the 14, almost 15-month-old Russo Ukraine War.
0:09.2	Hey, everybody, I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott out, and this is Right Angle, brought you by the members of Bill Whittle.com.
0:14.5	Gentlemen, we haven't done a Ukraine war update, and the Monday attack interests me for a couple of reasons, and some of them aren't really,
0:21.9	really military.
0:22.5	But let me give you the rundown of what happened.
0:25.4	Author and Kiev residents, Alexander Sherba said it sounded like the biggest missile onslaught on Kiev.
0:33.3	Our air defense is busy, busy, and another observer called it an unprecedented air defense show.
0:40.4	Incoming Russian missiles, outgoing Ukrainian air defense missiles.
0:44.3	Apparently they fired off an entire Patriot battery worth of anti-missile missiles.
0:50.5	Military analyst Rob Lee, he's one of my go-to guys because he's very sharp, he's very well-informed,
0:56.2	and he's generally not political at all.
0:58.6	He said clearly Russia launched a diversity of missiles and drones from different directions
1:03.1	to try and confuse Ukrainian air defenses.
1:06.5	And what got me, this is just how much things have changed in the last 70 or 80 years,
1:27.8	instead of, you know, a fleet of bombers turning the sky dark. This was 18, just 18 missiles and drones. There were six of Russia's air-launched Kinshaw missiles, which are supposed to be hypersonic, but there's some debate about whether or not they really are.
1:33.5	Nine caliber sea launch cruise missiles, three ground-based Iskander missiles, and a half dozen Iranian-made kamikaze drones.
1:39.3	Apparently, the attack was not much of excess.
1:42.2	Ukraine claims to have shot down all 18 incoming missiles and drones.
1:47.0	We don't have that confirmed yet. But the primary target doesn't seem to have been Kyves' electrical system. The lights are all on.
1:55.0	It doesn't seem to have been any major civilian targets. Nothing seems to have been hit.
1:59.2	Russia claims to have taken out one of those U.S. made Patriot batteries. That seems to have been hit. Russia claims to have taken out one of those
2:01.9	U.S. made Patriot batteries. That seems to have been the actual target. And there is some fuzzy
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