From: Stephen Bryen from Weapons and Strategy <weapons@substack.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Subject: Global Hawk over Black Sea Reportedly Shot Down
To: <hcobban@gmail.com>
WEAPONS AND SECURITY BY STEPHEN BRYEN Russia Update 06/24/2024 The Russian Air Force has shot down a United States RQ-4 Global Hawk drone over the Black Sea. according to reports on Twitter and Telegram. The shoot down has not been officially confirmed. Thanks for reading Weapons and Strategy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. The Russians say that the Global Hawks in the Black Sea are being used to coordinate missile and drone attacks on Crimea, the latest using 5 ATACMS missiles with cluster munitions warheads. Russia blames the US which it says provides the target coordinates and physically loads them into the ATACMS missiles in Ukraine. Global hawk sends the target information by satellite to Kiev. Global Hawk flights originate in Sicily. The Russians hauled in the US Ambassador to Moscow earlier today. President Putin has said there would be retaliation. A number of civilians including two children were killed on the beach in Sevastopol. Zelensky called them occupiers and that their killing was justified. One was 3 years old, the other a 9 year old girl. Meanwhile Zelensky has fired one of his top generals after complaints from the neo-Nazi Azov brigade. He was the commander of Ukraine’s Joint Forces Command, Lieutenant General Yury Sodol. He was fired after Ukrainian forces suffered very high casualties in the last week after a number of failed counter-attacks. Zelensky is under pressure from Washington to take back territory from Russia, particularly in Kharkiv and to show meaningful progress before the US presidential election. ___________________________________ Thanks for reading Weapons and Strategy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Weapons and Strategy is free today. But if you enjoyed this post, you can tell Weapons and Strategy that their writing is valuable by pledging a future subscription. You won't be charged unless they enable payments. © 2024 Stephen Bryen |