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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Mar 15, 2024, 01:45 PM Mar 2024

At least 14 killed and dozens injured in Russian 'double tap' missile strike on Odesa

A Russian missile strike hit civilian infrastructure in the Ukrainian city of Odesa, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens of others, Ukrainian officials said Friday.

After the first missile struck the Black Sea port city Friday morning, killing and wounding civilians, Ukrainian emergency service personnel who had rushed to the scene were then caught in a second strike, in an attack known as a “double tap” used by Russia throughout more than two years of its war in Ukraine.

“The Russian missile attack killed a paramedic and a rescue worker who had arrived at the scene after the first explosion to provide assistance. There are also heavily injured among the medics and rescuers,” Oleh Kiper, head of the Odesa regional military administration, wrote on Telegram.

The attacks come as Russians across the country are heading to the polls in carefully choreographed elections expected to deliver President Vladimir Putin a fifth term in power.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/least-14-killed-dozens-injured-135301898.html

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At least 14 killed and dozens injured in Russian 'double tap' missile strike on Odesa (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2024 OP
If ISIS or Al Qaeda used this so-called "double tap", it would be called terrorism ck4829 Mar 2024 #1
And this isn't a hypothetical; this tactic is, in fact, warned about ck4829 Mar 2024 #2
Slava Ukraini. Thank you for the update. niyad Mar 2024 #3

ck4829

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1. If ISIS or Al Qaeda used this so-called "double tap", it would be called terrorism
Fri Mar 15, 2024, 02:12 PM
Mar 2024

But apparently just add a permanent membership on the UN Security Council and a dash of some nuclear weapons, and it becomes a war tactic

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