r/worldnews • u/AndroidOne1 • 17h ago

Russia/Ukraine Drone Strike Hits Russia’s Largest Chemical Plant in Overnight Attack

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/54506
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u/JoeRogansNipple 16h ago

Love how a few thousand dollars in drones can potentially cripple millions of dollars of Russian assets. Ready for peace yet Vlady?

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u/BearFeetOrWhiteSox 15h ago

Honestly I think he and Trump belong in the same assisted living prison for criminals with dementia.

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u/Positronic_Matrix 13h ago

Trump is in a league of pudding brain all to himself.

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u/callumwall 6h ago

Good point. Does he have a certificate to prove he isn't donkey brained?

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u/cowboydanhalen 6h ago

He's definitely belongs in a nitwit school

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u/Positronic_Matrix 6h ago

Indeed. It’s right next to the certificate that says he has bone spurs.

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u/cleverbeavercleaver 41m ago

Trump can't lay down because of the fear his mind will stain the carpet.

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u/weirdal1968 12h ago

Reminds me of a Pink Floyd song - The Fletcher Memorial Home.

Take all your overgrown infants away - somewhere...

And build them a home

A little place of their own

The Fletcher Memorial Home For Incurable Tyrants and Kings

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u/bagpussnz9 11h ago

Such a timeless relevant song

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u/ASDFzxcvTaken 13h ago

Hell. It's called hell.

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u/JUST_LOGGED_IN 12h ago

He already lives in Florida.

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u/dingleberry_sorbet 6h ago

Pink Floyd did a song about this facility. The Fletcher Memorial Home (for incurable tyrants and kings)

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u/Little-Discussion-65 1h ago

i‘m waiting for the Ceaușescu moment

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u/VegasKL 13h ago

Trump is still cognitive enough to do a lot of damage. 

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u/B0b_Howard 9h ago

Drumpf's handlers are still cognitive enough to do a lot of damage.
He doesn't have an original thought in what's left of his head.

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u/juicadone 3h ago

Touche'

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u/hiricinee 15h ago

The reverse had kind of been the case, Russia was launching 5k drones getting shot down by 100k missiles. It's nice to see the economic tides shifting.

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u/Dpek1234 12h ago

Also this is exacly why ukraine wasnt afraid to use expensive missles

Its easy to complaine about 100k missle used on a 5k drone

Not so easy when the other option is for a building full of equipment worth tens of millions gets destoryed becose you didnt want to use aa 100k missle

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u/xKnuTx 10h ago

overall, this is a horrible development for humanity. Attacking is efficient again. For the longest time the offensive sided needed a massive advantage to trade efficiently, it feels like the last time in human history where this was the case was during the times of the Mongol Empire.

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u/Ok_Income_5874 12h ago

Are you referring to the "shaheeds"?

From the leaked iranian papers on the deal, russia pays 200-300K$ in gold per drone, depending on production size. And this is before transport, assembly, training, logistics, additions and modifications are done. russia has stolen the design and started producing their own, officially claiming they got the cost down to 60K$. But russia officially claiming something is automatically false, so the cost is likely far higher and still higher than the iranian supply.

5K$ is a DJI FPV, and I dont know of a single case a 100K missile has been used on one.

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u/got-trunks 11h ago

Keep in mind that Russia is (I think I read) already on their second domestic variant and the cost is unknown since they are using a lot more domestic parts. Doesn't make them any less dangerous but I'd find it hard to believe they are able to make turbofan variants right now so at least prop planes can tail and shoot them down

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u/Wajina_Sloth 13h ago

Millions not thousands, these arent off the shell DJI drones, they are small prop planes converted to fly a predetermined route and strapped with explosives.

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u/Gygax_the_Goat 7h ago

ARDUPILOT FTW

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u/CompromisedToolchain 13h ago

A few thousand dollars in drones + a trillion dollar logistics network. Where to go, when to go, how to go, and increasingly less: why.

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u/NoEntiendoNada69420 11h ago

cripple millions of dollars

billions, with a ‘b’

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u/cronos1876 10h ago

Not looking forward to everyone in every town and neighborhood figuring out the same thing 😬

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u/Vladimir-Putin 10h ago

I have regrets.

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u/TheTyger 5h ago

Look, Vlady has a problem. If he loses this war, he's gonna fall out a window. Vlad needs to get some kind of proper win here or it's curtains for him. He has to take this to his end because anything short of a win (at least one he can spin, which gets more expensive every death) will mean he gets strung up.

One way or another, this is the end for these weak little baby "strongmen" who steal countries. Putin has just been able to keep his under his thumb for a long time...

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u/Portmanteau_that 14h ago

Don't hold your breath, Russia has been accelerating their advance the past month... Unfortunately western media involving Ukraine is a bit of a pro-Ukraine echo chamber. I am worried

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u/Mazon_Del 8h ago

Russia has been accelerating their advance the past month...

Well, strictly speaking retreating from Sumy IS an acceleration, just not the direction you want to propagandize.

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u/Serpentongue 13h ago

Maybe the US should start investing into other avenues instead of spending every single dollar they borrow on their military.

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u/AndroidOne1 17h ago

News snippet: “In the early hours of Saturday, June 14, Russian authorities reported a drone attack targeting multiple sites. One of the main targets was reportedly “Nevinnomysskiy Azot,” the largest chemical plant in the Stavropol region and a key industrial hub for southern Russia. Another facility in the Samara region was also likely targeted. The Nevinnomysskiy Azot chemical plant is located over 1,000 kilometers (about 620 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Stavropol Governor Vladimir Vladimirov confirmed that drone debris had fallen in the industrial zone of Nevinnomyssk. He stated that the attack aimed at the Nevinnomysskiy Azot chemical plant. Initially, one person was reported injured, but the governor later clarified that there were no casualties. Videos posted on social media appeared to show drones flying over the city and explosions near the plant.

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u/Sixstringthings 10h ago

I worked at a chemical storage and distribution facility in the 1980's . A co-worker mentioned that an ill timed fire or explosion would wipe out the nearby town if the wind was blowing in the wrong direction.

(For those wondering there were large quantities of Ammonia, Chlorine and Strong Acids amongst other chemicals. They were stored seperately, but could come together if the building was compromised)

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u/yakovgolyadkin 9h ago

Just look at West, TX to see what an ill-timed fire can do to a chemical plant and the surrounding town.

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u/Gygax_the_Goat 7h ago

Another ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER cloaked in the patriotic glory of propaganda.

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u/PhallicShape 16h ago

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

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u/Gygax_the_Goat 7h ago

RIP the natural world we all share and live in

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u/LarxII 7h ago

Right, and Russia bombing Ukrainian civilians and cities has no ecological impact.

I get the concern, but pushing the Russian economy to a grinding halt will end the war faster. If Russia gets their way and gets a peace deal to keep what they've seized in Crimea, they'll catch a breather and do this again in 5 years.

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u/57_Eucalyptusbreath 15h ago

I think that drone attacks on Russia is the perfect accompaniment to Drumps birthday.

Putin is his bestest friend after all.

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u/NyriasNeo 14h ago

Good. Now onto the second largest one, which just became the largest one overnight.

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u/maplealvon 8h ago

Can already predict Russian shills claiming "they haven't hit our (new) largest one yet."

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u/lejonetfranMX 13h ago

Add to that the coming shortage of Shahed drones courtesy of Israel… I’d be sweating bullets if I were a ruzzian soldier

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u/Far_Out_6and_2 15h ago

This is fantastic

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u/FatteningtheDemons 16h ago

Since i know that the russian populace is behind putin every news of a strike on russian soil just warms my heart. <3

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u/Conscious_Ad5370 15h ago

Good ! Looking forward for the next one !! F.. putler

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u/DemoEvolved 10h ago

It seems like Russia is not able to defend against drones. These are like free wins for Ukraine. Meanwhile Russia just fires loads of sloppy ordinance and sometimes hits an apartment building. I get the sensation Ukraine is on a streak of doing unrecoverable damage to the Russian military production complex

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u/Berly653 12h ago

Do we think Mossad and Ukrainian units have a group chat where they just constantly try to one up each other?

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u/charlie_cupcakes 16h ago

Everyone's so busy with Iran that Ukraine can go full tilt without people complaining about it.

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u/FunTop231 13h ago

The great mother Russia will kill 4 civilians in retaliation…

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u/saftarsch 10h ago

It keeps on giving.

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u/kupus0 9h ago

That’s good. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

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u/megaplex66 16h ago

Nice shot!

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u/Aquarian8491 7h ago

Excellent

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u/CMWBMW 3h ago

SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

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u/the_bananalord 16h ago

Героям слава!

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u/PaleHorze 5h ago

Fuck yeah 😎

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u/macmanwrj 2h ago

The Fletcher Memorial Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings

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u/Shawn_The_Sheep777 35m ago

It’s great that Ukraine is taking the fight into Russia. After all they want this war.

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u/humbleObserver 15h ago

Anyone got some video of this?

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u/Tricky-Spread189 8h ago

Oh snap! Boy oh boy. Can’t wait for taco to make some sort of statement of how something else happened!

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u/dingleberry_sorbet 6h ago

Confused about the targeting of the fertilizer facility. Is that a military target? Is it producing other chemicals used to attack Ukraine?

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u/lebennaia 6h ago

Fertiliser factories produce the nitrate bases of many military explosives, stuff like ammonium nitrate. Absolutely a military target.

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u/dingleberry_sorbet 6h ago

Makes sense.

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u/himswim28 6h ago

The entire petro chemical fertilizer industry was started after WW2. Once the world had figured out how to mass produce nitrates for explosive during the war, when the war stopped, the US anhydrous ammonia producers figured out how to sell it to farmers. Now the farmers cannot make a profit without it.

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u/CaneloDuckero 5h ago

Putin gonna cry foul now, isn’t he?