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Moscow airports close as Ukrainian drones target city for second night

www.theguardian.com

Ukrainian drones target Moscow for second night as foreign leaders arrive

Ukrainian drones have targeted Moscow for the second night in a row, forcing temporary airport closures as the Russian capital prepares for a major military parade marking the end of the second world war that is expected to draw world leaders.

The consecutive attacks came before the annual 9 May victory parade, which this year commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union and its allies’ victory over Nazi Germany.

Vladimir Putin tried to call a three-day ceasefire for the 8-10 May anniversary; however, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, characterised the idea as self-serving and pointless unless it lasted 30 days in line with a US proposal that the Russian president has ignored.

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Make drones that drop very loud paint/dye bombs to send a message.
- Nah, I think the current payload sends a pretty good message as-is.

This is the way.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, characterised the idea as self-serving
President Zelenskyy couldn't be more correct.
May all dictators have drone fire rain on their military parades. This fierce demonstration of Ukrainian strength should encourage us all in the global fight against fascism.
Also, Slava Ukraini.

That's exactly the right way. The people in Moscow need to realize this isn't as far away as their leader would have them believe. Without giving them a whole bunch of martyrs but by scaring them. Even in a despotic regime demoralizing the general public is quite effective.

It would be glorious if ukraine could disturb the military parade ngl. That would be such a victory.

They should attack the parade, but with glitter or skunk odor or something like that. Don't kill civilians, but make clear nobody is out of reach.
- Yeah, dropping glitter bombs would be fucking amazing
  
  Yellow and blue splotches of sparkly paint everywhere 😆
- Awesome idea 😎

Good!

Instead of dropping bombs they should be dropping fully loaded small arms by the dozens. It'd be a much greater security nightmare, any random person might have a gun. Most would be recovered so security forces would know what's happening, everyone has to be patted down. It'd be hilarious.
- If only there were a sizable resistance to Putin, maybe then it would make sense.

Constant pestering attacks of small and cheap drones at airports would be a massive disruption to Putin
I imagine that better military minds than mine have considered it, but given the cost of cheap drones and the money it would cost Russia, it seems like a relatively easy way to be a headache and cause problems with their international interests
- You can't fly cheap drones that far from the front. Only way to go cheap is to use infiltrators on the ground near the airports. And that's only cheap on hardware, not lives.
  
  They've struck hundreds of kilometers into Russian territory with fixed wing drones that I believe were domestically made. Certainly not as cheap as quads, but still very cheap as far as long range munitions go.
  
  They have drone carrier drones now.
- Look at Heathrow recently too. There's one substation that will be both critical ane vulnerable also, dirt cheap to cause maximum effect
- And right before a bunch of planned international visits for the May 9th, too