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Ukraine Increases Security By Ending Count Of Missiles
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has for years bragged about its interception rate of Russian drones and missiles. Each day it published how many drones and missiles the Russian side had fired, and how many of those the Ukrainian side had wiped off the skies.
The Ukrainian ‘success’ rate was far above of what any others country’s air defense would hope to achieve. A typical example of that from July 9:
Ukrainian air defense intercepted nearly 90% of aerial threats during large-scale attacks in June
Throughout June, Ukraine’s air defense intercepted nearly 5,300 aerial threats.
Specifically, it shot down 90% of Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas, and other drones, 40% of ballistic missiles, and 89.4% of other missile types.
The overall interception rate for aerial threats during large-scale enemy attacks reached 89%.
During the hours-long attack overnight into June 2, the enemy launched eight Zircon anti-ship missiles, 33 Iskander-M ballistic missiles, 32 Kh-101 and Kalibr cruise missiles, and more than 650 attack drones.
The enemy sought to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defense, but Ukrainian forces responded effectively, intercepting 92% of drones and 90% of cruise missiles. Among the most challenging targets to intercept—ballistic missiles — 11 out of 41 were shot down.
A similarly large-scale attack took place overnight into June 15: the enemy launched six Zircon anti-ship missiles, 34 Iskander-M ballistic missiles, 30 Kh-101 and Iskander-K cruise missiles, and 611 attack drones.
Despite the complexity of the large-scale aerial attack, Ukrainian air defense intercepted half of the ballistic missiles, 95% of the drones, and all cruise missiles launched against Ukraine.
I am not aware of anyone who did believe those numbers. The news items did however contribute to the western media narrative of “Ukraine is winning“.
It did not take long for that delusion to evaporate. Ukraine, and more or less all of NATO, has run out of air-defense missiles. It no longer has the capability to even touch low-and-slow flying cruise missiles.
The Ukrainian defense ministry thus stopped to report how many missiles the Russians fire:
The Ukrainian Air Force on Tuesday said that its forces downed 98 of 120 Russian drones launched overnight but did not disclose how many missiles were fired or intercepted, even though Zaporizhzhia, the Dnipropetrovsk region, and Kyiv were targeted by more than a dozen ballistic missiles, including North Korean-made KN-23s, killing nine people.
The change follows a decision days earlier to stop reporting interceptions of Russian ballistic missiles. That came after a major attack last week in which Ukraine was unable to intercept any of 28 ballistic missiles fired at the country.
A person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the air force changed its reporting format as a security measure in response to Russia’s attacks.
How not reporting an enemy’s action is supposed to provide more security has yet be found out.
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Posted by: frithguild | Aug 11 2026 20:24 utc | 61
Quick summary: MAGA has collapsed. The entire middle who described themself as MAGA 9 months ago now describe themselves as independent. Millennials will never be Republican for as long as Fox News boomercons are within the coalition. Involvement if foreign wars with Iran is a betrayal. Republican bloodbath shaping up.
Apropos for the topic of this discussion board:
55:38 Ukraine war. So, that’s simple. I mean, the American public elected Donald Trump in part, of course, the anti-war platform was huge. What did Donald Trump himself, guys, promise to do in Ukraine?
55:49 End the war in hours. That’s right. This is not a popular war. It doesn’t matter if your favorite social media influencer
55:57 just got paid tens of thousands or even millions from Ukraine to go over there and sit down with the president and pretend like they’re popular. Nobody cares about Ukraine at all.
56:09 Russia scare is over, guys. Move on.
With respect to GenZ being mistrustful of Government (This gives this old man hope):
30:49 Um, they’re just not a mythbelieving society the way that the boomers are and the silent
30:57 generation was and the traditionals were. They’re very, very different. They don’t take government’s word for it. You tell them someone’s got a WMD, they tell
31:06 you, “Stuff it. Show me evidence.” Like, they don’t buy it. Could just been hit with too much. The lies over WMDs, the
31:13 financial crisis, the COVID situation, Donald Trump’s a Russian asset they were told. I mean, they have heard one major
31:23 lie after another that has been completely debunked now. They trust nobody. And I think what the right
31:30 misunderstood is that they don’t trust you either. Just because your guy won doesn’t mean they were going to trust him if he said that Iran’s going to get
31:38 a nuke and and blow up Israel. Nobody believes that. Nobody. All right? And just because you put Cash Patel at the
31:45 FBI doesn’t mean they believe you purged all the people who put you and are holding them accountable for the
31:52 collusion hoax from Crossfire Hurricane or Arctic Frost or any of that. They’re not going to believe you. It’s just ridiculous. It’s it it’s totally re just
32:00 because you put RFK at the head of HHS does not mean they’re going to support our public health officials. You know, they’re going to believe our public health officials. You had to earn that
32:09 trust and you had Okay. So, so this raises this raises another I mean just like there was some questions of why he President Trump would go down the road he did on the
32:18 Epstein file knowing ahead of time what that would do then we have to ask the same here with that big of a negative and him campaigning I mean I’m talking
32:27 back to 2015 2016 and all the way through I you know I’m I’m out on stupid wars and whatever that got so many people I was one of them in 2016 that
32:36 supported him for that reason with that polling data ahead of time, especially after Midnight Hammer.
Posted by: frithguild | Aug 11 2026 22:07 utc | 77
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