Retired officer on significance of Russian missile used in apartments attack

US Army Major Mike Lyons (Ret.) and CNN national security analyst Steve Hall discuss the Russian missile system used on the apartments in Dnipro, Ukraine, and reports from the Kremlin saying Russia plans to increase its armed forces. #CNN #News

[humanonearth]

Imagine living next to a neighbor whom throws rocks at you, your family and your house. You cannot throw rocks back at this neighbor's house. You can only act to defend yourself if your neighbor walks on to your property and then throws rocks at you. As a result, most of your home is destroyed and you're forced to live deep in the basement to avoid rocks. This is essentially Ukraine's situation and in spite of this ridiculous handicap they've managed to make Russia's imperial genocide and invasion look woefully incompetent and barbaric.

[damonm]

At this point I find it hard to justify any excess non conflict nation letting their missile defense systems sit in storage

[aresivrc]

Deliver those damm heavy weapons to Ukraine and do it NOW!

[bradleymosman]

That apartment building looks like the Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995 after Timothy McVeigh did his work. A good friend died in that bombing. She was cremated because her body was "unviewable". 168 people, including nineteen children perished. McVeigh was better than the average Russian. He actually took some personal risk. The Russian stands off at a safe distance for himself and commits mass murder with his missiles. Disgusting.

[summerrain]

Close the damn skies! "Never Again" was obviously an empty vow.

[dandansen]

If this was 1940, I wonder if MAGAs would have called Churchill a fool, supported Hitler and called FDR a demented potato Gimp?

[ryanhartnett]

Ukraine will not get justice until Russia is defeated. Give Ukraine the heavy weapons they need to win.

[RichardSengers]

The Netherlands and Germany are sending patriots as well

[donnewton]

The fact they're using a million dollar missle to attack an apartment building tells me they are running out of ammunition.

[Chukichev.Scientificmyths]

je suis Dnipro. Мы все жители дома в Днепре, в который попала российская ракета. Ракета попала в наши сердца и теперь там гнев и ярость. Дай Бог терпения, чтобы ярость не остыла до момента, когда мы придём за теми, кто в нас стрелял с этого паскудного фашистского русского мира. Жизнь за жизнь. Оcchio per occhio dente per dente.

[mickparly]

How does one become so cynical and so sick in the brain that one is completely indifferent to ordering an attack in which ordinary civilians and among them completely innocent children risk being killed or severely maimed. What we are seeing here are war crimes of the worst kind.

[natoya]

US need to send what Ukrainian need to win this war...

[VFella]

Unfortunately for Russia, there are a couple of things that make it very difficult that "the West" loses interest in this war:

1) The war _is_ in the West. It is at the very border of the EU and in affects all of Europe. And given how intertwined the US, European and other western economies and societies are, the rest of the West just cannot ignore it either.

2) The war is newsworthy. It is a large scale war, just like in the movies, it has a clear moral dimension, and it is just too big to ignore. Crimea could be ignored because it was relatively low intensity. But an attempt at full-fledged Blitzkrieg is a different thing. If Russia had somehow managed to take the country and there had been a limited resistance, the West would have protested and the interest of the people would have gone somewhere else after a year or two of small protests and a few terror attacks by Ukrainian resistance. But this is not what is happening. Every week there are moments that all on their own can and will become the stuff of movies, books and series.

3) Tiredness does not mean lower support. If you live in a place with lots of crime, you can grow used to it, desensitized. If you live in a state of long-lasting economic crisis, you can grow used to it, and it may not be in the headlines every day... but this does not stop people and governments from trying to get out of the crisis or fighting crime. Cancer and Malaria barely make the headlines, but yet we fight them. And money and resources are dedicated to it. The fact that a week passes and Ukraine is not in the news would not make that the Challengers 2 were forgotten in some harbour or the Poles relaxed their guard at the borders.

And last but not least: There is one thing a lot of people are pretty tired of, and that's stinking drunkards with an army of hobos telling us that we are shit and that they are for no good reason the Master Race. And for some magical reason, we have to believe them and obey them, even though we are the ones with the big sticks. Russophobia? The vatniks and siloviki can just not imagine how deep it runs.

[afcgeo]

The Kh-22 missile has two attack modes: one (high altitude) is from 56, 000 feet up. The other (low altitude) is from around 36, 000 feet. They’re both high altitudes compared to most cruise missiles and Ukrainian systems cannot detect objects at 56, 000 feet. By the time they detect the Kh-22 coming from that height it’s already too late.

[bblwarrantydepartment]

The cost of using a anti ship missile vs a typical a-l missile is drastic. Your talking 1k lb warhead vs a 300 lb. Warhead

[garyg]

OK NATO countries, listen to this guy. Give Ukraine what it needs to drive Russia out of Ukraine. HURRY !!!

[nicholascazmay]

It’s desperation. Launching missiles meant for aircraft carriers at non-military targets screams desperate.

[derekwilliamsgrace]

In order to stop the war, just send weapons to Ukraine as many as Ukraine needs .
It’s vital to stop Hypocrisy !

[lcervantes]

How is it possible for that missle to be inaccurate at the same time designed to target carriers?

[robertwysocki]

These people need to let go of the idea that Vladimir Putin is someone reasonable who can be negotiated with.