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Those Ukraine chopper pilots would have had the adrenaline still pumping upon their return at a guess.....

They Lost a few KA 52s as well over ukraine another Russian wonder weapon

Overall, I think this is a good news story. The Ukrainian armed forces attacking a military target in Russia must be coming as a bit of a shock to those people devouring the nightly Kremlin propaganda on state TV i.e. how can this be even happening after six weeks of the invasion.

To put this bluntly enough - in cases where the USA can apply political pressure to prevent some other countries paying for commodities and services in Rubles, I'll be happier than the case where they applied no political pressure to any country to refrain from doing so. And in cases where the USA can apply sanctions to Russia, I'll be happier than the case where no sanctions were applied. Would I be even happier, still, if the USA got every single country to stop using any Rubles for transactions and if the USA banned all Russian imports? Sure I would, but I understand that this probably is not going to happen because of the need to also manage domestic and foreign affairs. The hypocrisy of any country is just something I have to put on the back burner of concern for now, and talk of it seems like a way to make this all about something other than Russia bombing the crap out of Ukraine because of one man's twisted worldview.

There are a couple of videos of the attack but the one I saw had two choppers definitely firing rockets and then subsequent explosions on the ground. It was definitely an attack by helicopters just up now we didn't know whose.

As for escalating the war, they've been attacked and invaded by Russia with indiscriminate shelling and bombing of civilian areas how much more can the war be escalated. An attack on a fuel depot does not clear the way for a nuclear retaliation.

India is already a septic tank of a country with hundreds of millions of souls living in third-world filth. I can't see that improving if they align themselves with the Russians. There must be money to be made for the mega-rich minority. Horrible world we live in.

Reminds me of the attack the US organized on Japan immediately after Pearl Harbour. It was totally unexpected, just as the Japanese attack had been, and was just a foretaste of what was to come down the road.

Surprised they aren't realising that if Russia ends up beholden to China then their main arms supplier and their regional rival will be on the same team.

It would be a real shame if the Indian outsourcers found themselves on the wrong side of sanctions. How many jobs and from Indian standards high paying ones are reliant on the outsourcers in India? Modi could be very shortsighted with this because the West can hurt India significantly if he's not careful.

The West is reliant on cheap Indian IT labour however. Even more so than Russian gas.

This seems to tie in with the state propaganda. "We're not actually at war and we're fully in control of everything". The way that people seem to swallow everything they are told by the Kremlin without question is certainly a sight to behold.

Here's an interview with a Russian field commander abiut their culinary situation