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The Irish Sun
5 days ago
- Politics
- The Irish Sun
Full scale of Op Spiderweb devastation laid bare as satellite pix show prized Putin jets in RUINS after $7bn drone blitz
THE FULL extent of Ukraine's devastating drone blitz on airfields inside Russia has been laid bare by new satellite pictures. Advertisement 8 Shadows of scorched earth are all that remain on Putin's bombers at this airfield Credit: @AirbusDefence 8 This bomber was smashed to smithereens by the cheap Ukrainian drones Credit: AFP 8 The Belaya airfield bares the scars of the drone blitz Credit: @Planet and @AirbusDefence 8 Stunning satellite photos show patches of scorched earth where valuable Russian jets one lay. The debris has been hastily swept away - perhaps an attempt to conceal the scale of the destruction. Elsewhere, wreckages of warplanes blown to pieces remain on the tarmac, with fragments strewn across the runway. he most daring raids of the WW2 that turned the tide against the Nazis . Advertisement read more in world news Volodymyr Zelensky oversaw the operation and said: "It's genuinely satisfying when something I authorized a year and six months ago comes to fruition and deprives Russians of over forty units of strategic aviation. "We will continue this work." Putin's doomsday bomber fleet was crippled with 41 - a third of the total - of his most prized aircraft lying in smouldering wrecks on tarmac. Ukraine said the sneak attack was worth $7bn (£5.2bn) in damage to Russia - caused by just 117 cheaply made drones . Advertisement Most read in The US Sun Following the humiliating and costly blow, Putin's stooges came out and Desperate to save face, Russian war bloggers named the man they believe was pulling the leavers as Artem Timofeev. Dramatic moment Putin's 'war hero' who led slaughter of Mariupol is killed in mysterious suicide bomb attack Artem, 37, is a former Ukrainian DJ. Putin's sleuths think they have identified that he owned the lorries used to carry the containers to the strikes . Advertisement Alleged drivers who transported the crates and were tracked down by the bloggers all had similar stories about taking instruction from an "Artem", the . They appeared to have thought they were transporting wooden frame houses, but instead they moved kamikaze drones into strike position. 8 Ukraine hit bombers at the Russian Belaya Air Base in Irkutsk Credit: East2West 8 Ukraine released photos of the drones in the crates taken from inside Russia Credit: Unpixs Advertisement 8 A still from first-person-footage of the drone blasts Credit: Ukrainian Armed Forces The drones and the containers were smuggled into Russia and then pieced together right under Vlad's nose. Clueless lorry drivers then parked the containers next to Russian airbases - where they sat and waited in plain sight. Zelensky said the drivers were led far away from their vehicles - as Ukraine looked to hide those involved being captured and interrogated the FSB. Advertisement Then, on the morning of June 1, the fleet of flying bombs rose over the far reaches of Russia - and the most daring military operation of the war began. Nondescript shipping containers parked in laybys and verges had attracted little attention - before their lids blew open and the drone swarms poured out. Russian civilians stood in awe as they saw the drones zoom out of the containers and head in the direction of the airbase. The craft buzzed as they took off into the air and only had to travel a short distance to their valuable targets. Advertisement Each of the 117 drones had their own dedicated pilot and Russia had little defences to protect their bases and stop them. One hapless Russian soldier stationed at an air base recorded himself standing just meters from several burning wrecks. 8 Russian Belaya Air Base in Irkutsk region, Siberia, was ablaze Credit: East2West
Time of India
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
"I've been pounded to smithereens." Nicolas Cage talks about the new film 'The Surfer' and shares about his experience of getting up on the surfboard
Nicolas Cage , well known for his action-packed scenes in movies, recently accepted defeat against the high tides as he talked about shooting for his latest film as a ' surfer '. The actor shared how getting up on the surfboard and getting hit by the waves again and again was hard and 'blew him to smithereens'. Cage's latest entertaining film, 'The Surfer' Nicolas Cage transforms into a 'surfer' for his latest project, 'The Surfer', where he plays an unnamed businessman who goes all the way back to his home in Australia with the mission to buy back the beach house from his childhood. Contrary to the name, the actor does not do much surfing but still manages to hit the waves on screen. The scene comes at the very end of the movie itself, where, after getting bullied by the townspeople and going into full-blown madness, the actor can be seen touching the waves. Cage shares that he wanted to recreate an iconic scene from an old film The actor told EW in an interview about his conversation with the director of the film, Lorcan Finnegan. He shared that "Lorcan and I talked at length about it. He knows that I wish I could have gotten to that point," revealing that he had hoped to recreate an iconic and well-known surf scene from the movie ' Big Wednesday ' from 1979. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Direct Shopping From Adidas Francchise Store, 60% Discount Original Adidas Shop Now Undo "I seem to remember in my mind's eye, Jan-Michael Vincent on the board and then the board wiping across the frame…. It was so beautiful in the water with the wiping of the board and then landing on its face in slow motion. I thought, Gee, I really want to get that shot, but I didn't have the time to get my skills to the point where we could do it." The actor had trained well for the role and had taken surfing lessons as well to get into the character. The actor talked about all of the challenges that he faced while training for the role. In the interview he shared that "We had things like weather conditions and, believe it or not, shark reports and things, all that s---." Cage also ended up complaining to the interviewer that the paparazzi could not get a shot of him standing up on the surfboard and instead only took photographs of when he fell down. Actor's experience with surfing Nikhil also shared that he has attempted to surf again and again before but has been unsuccessful every single time. He said that "I have surfed, but every time I've attempted surfing, I've been pounded to smithereens. I surfed down on Sunset Beach. When I was trying to learn, my teacher gave me a shortboard. I said, 'Look, I want a longboard.'" He then continued on, saying that "I just got pounded and literally got stuck in the riptide, and they said they saw my board; they call it 'tombstone', like that triangle top.'
Los Angeles Times
27-01-2025
- Politics
- Los Angeles Times
Letters to the Editor: Fossil-fuel polluters put money over the planet. Tax them into smithereens
To the editor: Jordan Thomas' powerful and poignant op-ed article on intensifying wildfires amid accelerated fossil-fuel consumption is a must-read for every living person. Each one of us is having a life of previously unknown riches, all brought by the burning of fossil fuels. The relentless use of fossil fuels created the monster that is climate change, and now it will be our salvation. Tax the fossil fuel industry and its financiers to smithereens. This dramatic action will fund the transition to sustainable economies run on renewables and help the families suffering losses from all extreme weather events. We can do this. We must do this. We only need to stop listening to people who somehow imagine money is more important than the very planet that sustains us. As Thomas points out, climate change disasters are only growing in intensity, destruction and frequency, and these people need to realize they (and their children) will either die out in an increasingly damaged environment, or they will join us. Those are the only two choices. One way or another, we will stop pouring carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Mother Earth will not let us destroy her. JJ Flowers, Dana Point .. To the editor: Just 20,000 years ago, much of North America was buried under an ice sheet that reached Nebraska. Pacific Palisades now resembles cities firebombed in World War II. This is the power of the atmosphere, which exceeds that unleashed in any world war. U.S. leaders, influenced by oil money, have consistently shirked their duty to protect us from polluters. We must marshal a national mindset appropriate to what we have known about climate change since the 1980s. Don't be distracted or deflected by cynical nonsense. Become a political 'intensifier.' Demand that your congressional representatives ambitiously respond to climate change, regardless of how much the fossil fuel industry donates to their campaigns. Any lawmaker voting to weaken or dismantle the Inflation Reduction Act should lose their next election. Gary Stewart, Laguna Beach
