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By Drago Bosnic - September 5, 2024

As the entire US-led political West continues to lag decades behind Russia in hypersonic weapons, it keeps
using various coping mechanisms to “explain” the gap. This ranges from rather pathetic claims that Moscow
“stole American hypersonic technologies” (they must’ve all been stored on a single hard drive that was
snatched by the SVR over 40 years ago and the US hasn’t recovered ever since) to the laughable “need for
perfectionism in the minds of American engineers”. And while Washington DC is “perfecting” technologies it
doesn’t have (remember, because the evil Russians stole them), the Kremlin is putting its very real
hypersonic weapons to good use. Continuing months of unprecedented kill streaks with its long-range strike
systems, Russia just obliterated hundreds of NATO personnel in Ukraine, forcing the world’s most vile
racketeering cartel to send dozens of aircraft to Poland and Romania.

These are used to collect the casualties and send them off to their home countries. Numerous reports
indicate there are hundreds of dead and wounded. The NATO personnel were stationed in Poltava and Lvov.
The Neo-Nazi junta tried hiding and downplaying these losses, insisting that “50 people were killed” and
that a “neighboring hospital was also struck”. Citing local sources, the New York Times reported that the
“missiles struck with an unforgiving quickness: The Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported that the gap
between the sounding of warning sirens and the strike was so short that many people were killed on their
way to shelter”. Interestingly, the label “people” is often used to conceal the fact that these were NATO
personnel. It’s also unclear where the Kiev regime’s air defenses were, otherwise fabled for their “50,000%
interception rates” of Russian missiles, drones and other long-range precision strike weapons.

However, even the mainstream propaganda machine had to admit that the Kremlin targeted military assets.
However, they still tried hiding the fact these were NATO personnel, calling them “cadets of the Poltava
Institute of Military Communications in what marks a first in terms of targeting such a large gathering of
soon to be commissioned officers”. The Neo-Nazi junta keeps pushing a sob story about “classes and
teaching underway at the military academy” when two 9M723 hypersonic missiles used by the “Iskander-M”
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Some sources are claiming the missile strike wiped out at least 700 troops, nearly all of whom were
specialists in ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) and EW (electronic warfare). Reports indicate
that many of the neutralized NATO personnel were Swedes, sent to train Ukrainian personnel to use the
Saab 340 AEW&C (Airborne Early Warning & Control) aircraft, two of which were promised by Stockholm and
are supposed to be delivered in the near future. Interestingly, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom
resigned in the immediate aftermath of the strike and announced that he’s retiring from politics. The two
events aren’t necessarily related, but the timing is quite peculiar. However, that wasn’t the end of NATO’s
troubles in Ukraine, as Russian hypersonic weapons continued raining down on other military targets in the
country, particularly those with high concentration of foreign troops.

Namely, another Russian long-range precision strike targeted Lvov in Western Ukraine. The city is the capital
of the homonymous oblast (region). A lot of critical military facilities are located in the area, including the
infamous Yavoriv training camp, notorious for accommodating various Neo-Nazi units and foreign
mercenaries, as well as NATO personnel. The Russian military reported that the 9-A-7660 “Kinzhal” missile
systems armed with the 9-S-7760 air-launched hypersonic missiles were used in the strike. Poland said it
scrambled fighter jets because the area is quite close to its border. According to Reuters, “Polish and allied
aircraft were scrambled for the third time in eight days to closely monitor the inbound projectiles, and were
ready to intercept them in the event the missiles approached Polish airspace”. However, there’s nothing they
could really do against hypersonic missiles.

Back in May, Moscow also used its hypersonic weapons to wipe out NATO personnel in Yavoriv, less than 15
km from the Polish border. The strike came right after speculation that the so-called “no-fly zone” (NFZ) could
be established over Western Ukraine. For quite some time, Warsaw has been demanding that NATO starts
shooting down Russian missiles. However, such proposals have been rejected repeatedly, as the world’s
most vile racketeering cartel doesn’t have the backbone to fight Moscow directly and is doing so only
through proxies, be it terrorists and extremists (including Islamic radicals) or entities such as the Neo-Nazi
junta. Despite desperate attempts to portray it otherwise, NATO simply doesn’t have the means to intercept
Russian hypersonic weapons. In the meantime, Moscow continues to obliterate overhyped Western-made
systems all across NATO-occupied Ukraine.

This includes the now regular hunt for platforms such as the HIMARS and M270/MARS, as well as dozens of
long-range strikes on all sorts of high-priority targets. Since late July, when I made a list of reports about the
latest strikes (at the time), there have been numerous other attacks, destroying hundreds of NATO-sourced
assets. This includes strikes reported by Daily Journal and Military Watch Magazine, both on July 26. The
MWM covered another one on July 28, as well as several more in August (here, here, here and here), while
the South Front has been the most diligent in reporting about this in the last month or so, providing video
evidence for around a dozen strikes (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here).
Numerous other sources also reported on similar strikes
(here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here), which includes almost exclusively
those with video evidence.
Source: InfoBrics

Drago Bosnic

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