Ukraine reportedly launches dozens of drones at Moscow ahead of Victory Day Parade

Can't hide the sounds of explosions

It would probably be a bigger embarrassment to have a drone explode nearby with no warning alarm than for the alarm to go off.

Yes, I can’t wait to see the several tumble weeds with russian flags stuck on.

The man is a poet. Honestly.

"kinetic sanctions"

or kinetic sanctions

I’d take him any second as my president, not gonna lie.

A good comedian knows delivery. On one side you got a million tweets about annihilation, the other is just ominous veiled threat. The delivery is basically from Putin, to Putin.

Or a clown...a clown with orange makeup and a bad comb-over.

Maybe we should do the same...I hear Colbert is lookingbfor a new job.

if you want to be a comedian you have to be intelligent, Zelenksy is doing amazing by president standards these days

ukraine has pulled out some wildly successful attacks, often timed for maximum political impact. remember their drones that "spawned" deep in Russia and took out their nuclear bombers? or their attack on kerch bridge? anything can happen. make Russia understand they are not safe.

Drones flooding the sky over the parade with blue and yellow confetti would send quite the message.

„While russian soldiers have been goosestepping in the fading light of past glory, our soldiers have been fighting in a real war with ever growing efficiency. Here is a list of the targets we hit:”

Parades and confetti in Moscow while the rest of the country burns.

"For the duration of the parade (beginning at 10:00 a.m. Kyiv time on May 9, 2026), the area of Red Square shall be excluded from the plan for the use of Ukrainian weapons," the [declaration](https://president.gov.ua/documents/3742026-59389) reads, including precise coordinates for Red Square. So clearly everything else in Moscow is still fair game.

I like the thought of the Red Square being the only guaranteed safe place, so during the hours of the parade it looks like Times Square on New Years Eve, but when you zoom in everyone is cowering in fear.

I'm sure Ukraine will release the incoming drone footage 🙂

Nope. It's on a few minutes of delay. Apparently, they have filmed the rehearsals in order to cut to that in case of an embarrassing event.

They surely will broadcast a very triumphant AI version where everything looks perfect

Or they might start it two hours early at the last moment. They did that in 1941 when they were afraid Germany would bomb them.

Yea that's a good point, lots of mobilie radar will probably be set up

I believe that is the plan. Hitting moscow would be just a morale win, but hitting military or refineries targets would be strategic.

Yep, classic military dilemma building, air defense keeps getting thinner and thinner fir the Russians and Ukraine is making it clear that they could attack the parade, but there's many many targets now Russia has to choose between prioritising.

They should still strike. The recriminations and accusations and so on would be worth it, even if it does no damage. 

There's also the question of what Russia is using to shoot down the drones. If you absolutely do not want to allow a drone to get through the air defense at any cost then it makes sense to use munitions that cost hundreds of thousands (or millions) of dollars per shot even on c**** drones. It might be a case where Ukraine is fine having their c**** drones shot down as a way to deplete Russian air defense munitions. If Ukraine was targeting Russian infantry in the Donbas the Russians would probably be more willing to save their good missiles and sacrifice a few troops.

Hard, but not impossible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridges_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war

Yes, however not when a parade is going on, there is 1 thing attacking 'randomly' but a whole other thing if you get attacked when 'security is tight', if you fail to protect during a parade you have demonstrated you can't protect yourself at all.

Its always just shrapnel from drones that Russian air defenses shot down /s

Maybe it's only me, but if anybody would hit my hometown, I'd be rightfully pissed for that, and wouldn't think "yeah we are the baddies, we deserve this".

> eople in Russia may support Putin People in Russia already do support Putin. There is no notable anti war movement and every day about 1,000 Russians voluntarily sign up to go fight in Ukraine. I don't believe Ukraine should intentionally strike civilians and I do think Ukrainian strikes should be based on military value which probably means soldiers in a parade isn't the highest value strike that said I think the idea of Ukraine fighting with one hand tied behind their back "so as not to offend the Russian people" is a losing strategy. Russia is already doing everything they can to win a conventional war and there is no resistance from the Russian people. If the Russian people get mad at Ukraine so what? They already think Ukrainians are Nazis trying to exterminate all Russians and spread homosexuality. This is a real war for Ukraine. They should strike the targets that enable them to hurt the Russian military and the Russian economy the most. Ukraine should also follow the laws of war as laid out in the Geneva conventions but accidental civilian deaths while targeting legitimate military targets is not a war crime.

I've reached Curtis LeMay levels of make-it-f******-end at this point. Civilians showing up to celebrate Vatnik fantasies while their country continues to proliferate warcrimes at an unprecedented rate are *not* innocent.

Yep. Making up the number, but the approach seems to be: If you have 10 000 missiles do you send them all at Moscow with a 90% interception rate, or do you attack targets all over Russia with a 10% interception rate

Recently Ukraine has been targeting Russia’s oil infrastructure. It is highly visible and is hurting the cash flow Putin needs to fund the war.

Learned from The Battle of Britain.

There was a video like a year or so ago of a Ukrainian drone flying over the Kremlin.

Ukraine wouldn't surrender regardless of the events in Bucha happening or not. It was the West who refused to believe in the atrocities the Russians were capable of. Ukraine warned about it for 8 years, but everyone just turned a blind eye. Source: am Ukrainian.

An interesting dichotomy though is that when there have been Ukrainian drones shot down over the wealthy Russian suburbs the reaction from Russians on telegram seems to be "lol" or "now the rich know what it's like to be in a warzone too." There's a lot of schadenfreude from Russians aimed at their wealthy. Bucha was a relatively wealthy Ukrainian suburb and when people were massacred there Ukrainians at every income level were absolutely horrified and wanted vengeance I know it's kind of mixed comparison looking at telegram reactions to drones being shot down in Russia versus massacres of civilians in Ukraine but I also think it's worth remembering that Russians seem to hold much less empathy for the plight of other Russians.

Its for this reason (among others) that Ukraine should NOT strike Moscow this weekend. They should capitalize on all the exposed infrastructure this disttaction has created, imo!

> why they chose their capital to be so close to Washington was dumb but that’s neither here nor there Virginia was the economic, cultural, and population heavyweight of the south. Not just the south. Virginia was by a large margin the most populous colony when the US became independent. Of the fifteen US Presidents that preceded Lincoln, half were Virginians. By the Civil War it had fallen to fifth place as the north experienced more population growth, but it was still quite a bit larger than all of the other Confederate states.

Fascinating.  This didn't sound right to me, I thought that they had their capital somewhere in the deep South.  And they did, but apparently moved it to Richmond fairly early in the war.  Google says it was to ensure Virginia's allegiance and get the government closer to the war.  Maybe they had communication problems being far from the front?