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Russia ‘fires intercontinental ballistic missile’ at Ukraine for first time (www.telegraph.co.uk)

submitted 1 month ago by Streetlights@lemmy.world to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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Supposedly, an RS-26 was launched from Astrakhan and targeted at infrastructure in Dnipro.

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[-] Streetlights@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

I suspect the use of an RS-26 was meant to serve as a provocation/response to the recent ATACMs strikes.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I posted elsewhere about the rumour Russia was going to fire an RS26.

I got called a liar and warmonger.

Well, my next prediction remains the same: Russia WILL eventually use nukes. Because there will come a moment of "use it or lose it", and Russia prefers a destroyed world over an intact one without Russia.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You see why you are called out. Putin will never use nukes. He will die if he does so and he fears for his life.

Nuclear weapons launched on the west only work as a threat, they don't actually work for anything really except that.

Secondly, they do not have any tactical gains to have from tactical nukes (and it seems they do no longer have the batallions needed to use them, so they'd nuke themselves as much as the Ukrainians), and they would lose support from China and India for using them which would really hasten the downfall of the Russian regime.

So no, there is no nUkes cOmMing.

Even I, a certified armchair general, knows this.

Edit: you got called out because you said this: