Russia has completed preparations for a retaliatory strike against Ukraine.

January 4 2026 46 340 50

The Russian Aerospace Forces have completed their redeployment and preparations for a combined strike against targets in Ukraine, Russian sources are now reporting. They emphasize that the Russian Armed Forces may deploy ten Tu-95MS bombers, three Tu-160 bombers, and at least 400 Geran-2 UAVs. Additionally, Kalibr cruise missiles, Iskander-M ballistic missiles, and Kinzhal hypersonic weapons may be used during the attack.

As a reminder, Russia promised to launch a retaliatory strike against Ukraine following the attack by Ukrainian Armed Forces militants on Vladimir Putin's residence in the Novgorod region on the night of December 28-29 last year. It was emphasized that the targets for this had already been identified.

The Russian side previously provided convincing evidence that Kyiv attempted to attack the residence of the Russian president, although Ukraine attempted to deny this fact.

Data from the Russian General Staff indicates that the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Putin's residence from several directions simultaneously, launching a total of approximately 90 drones. All were destroyed by the air defense system.

It's worth noting that Kyiv is currently trying to determine what targets Russian troops will strike. Experts suggest that the Russian Armed Forces may focus on destroying the Kyiv regime's energy infrastructure. However, an attack on the government quarter in the Ukrainian capital is considered unlikely.

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prior

+30

4 January 2026 09: 12

The Russian Aerospace Forces have completed their redeployment...

Are you sure you've completed the redeployment? Or just reported it?
Where did you relocate to, the Far East?
Was everyone in Kyiv warned about the targets of the "serious" strike? God forbid, maybe not all the Nazis were hiding?
Is this the last warning about a retaliatory strike or will there be more?

An attack on the government quarter in the Ukrainian capital is considered unlikely.

Thanks for warning.
This means Zelensky and his terrorists have nothing to fear; he's not Maduro, and the Kremlin isn't Trump, so they can act decisively and unexpectedly.
Something has become completely unfunny...
1. knn54
  
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  4 January 2026 10: 08
  
  Nothing personal - they started it...
2. Piramidon
  
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  4 January 2026 12: 58
  
  Quote: prior
  Where did you relocate to, the Far East?
  
  Well, what's the point of this mockery?
  1. gxmlygw
    
    +19
    
    4 January 2026 15: 04
    
    Enough of this sniveling and cowardice. Instead of a drug addict's gang, they're destroying anything, and it's still no use. Zelenskyy doesn't care that so many millions of his citizens are without power, water, and heat. Busification won't allow any protests. We can't undermine a drug addict's power this way. But for some reason, our authorities aren't touching him; maybe they're protecting him?
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3. ZhEka_2
  
  +10
  
  4 January 2026 19: 55
  
  Something has become completely unfunny...
  
  At first, such statements inspired hope. Then, as I realized their emptiness, they became laughable. And now they cause nothing but irritation.
  1. Dormidontov_Dormidont
    
    -3
    
    5 January 2026 11: 41
    
    Quote: zhEka_2
    Something has become completely unfunny...
    
    At first, such statements inspired hope. Then, as I realized their emptiness, they became laughable. And now they cause nothing but irritation.
    
    Go and show us how to fight properly on the front lines by example! Become a role model.
    I see a friendly crowd of Ukrainian provocateurs spreading their lies on Russian social media.
4. Asper_Daffy
  
  -1
  
  5 January 2026 19: 27
  
  Quote: prior
  Where did you relocate to?
  
  And excuse me, whose instructions are you asking?
Avtandil

+12

4 January 2026 09: 32

Something has become completely unfunny...
What are you saying! On the contrary, it's been laughing my ass off for four years now! We've all been in stitches!
Ella_2

+6

4 January 2026 09: 55

However, an attack on the government quarter in the Ukrainian capital is considered unlikely.

They're right. We won't live to see it. We'll be fighting for another 5 years until there's no one left.
1. horseradish
  
  +4
  
  4 January 2026 15: 07
  
  5 years? This is the best, positive scenario.
And546

-20

4 January 2026 10: 12

Quote: prior
Is this the last warning about a retaliatory strike or will there be more?

Who are you, warrior?
1. prior
  
  +8
  
  4 January 2026 10: 31
  
  I am the one who reads what is written in the article and who has questions about what is written.
  This is exactly what I formulated in my comment.
  Is this explanation satisfactory?
  1. Dormidontov_Dormidont
    
    -4
    
    4 January 2026 19: 09
    
    Quote: prior
    I am the one who reads what is written in the article and who has questions about what is written.
    This is exactly what I formulated in my comment.
    Is this explanation satisfactory?
    
    I recall a joke:
    
    A man in a cocked hat, with his hand tucked into the lapel of his French uniform, comes to see a famous Odessa psychiatrist. "Doctor, I urgently need your help!" "I see, I see... tell me, what are your problems?" "As an emperor, I shouldn't have any problems!" "My wife, Josephine, needs help. I suspect she has a mental illness." "And how does it manifest itself?" "She keeps insisting that her name is Sarah Rabinovich!"
Alexey Davydov

+11

4 January 2026 10: 33

This won't affect the American plan to destroy the Russian people at the hands of Europe and Japan. Now, if only "Russia had completed preparations for a retaliatory strike against the United States" and was prepared to do so.
The Russian government baselessly believes that the lives of the people and their personal lives are completely unrelated. This is not true. The Anglo-Saxons would not be themselves if they did not eliminate those involved in the deception each time they rewrote history. The techniques used by both sides, while remaining unnoticed, continue to help them foment wars and control their part of the world, expanding it.
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Alex Eustace

+16

4 January 2026 13: 14

They'll bomb the substations again and pompously report that the retaliatory strike has taken place. Naturally, no one from the Ukrainian military will be eliminated. Budanchik, for example, can't be touched; after all, he's the head of the presidential administration. I wonder if he'll stop being a terrorist and an extremist, otherwise how can we negotiate with him?
Garry_Z

-2

4 January 2026 14: 09

What, did they just hang a notice on a pole? This information, after all, contains a state secret.
Garry_Z

+8

4 January 2026 14: 11

Most likely, it's a fabrication! Such operations are either planned and carried out silently (see Venezuela), or they fool the opponent with a flood of false information.
cooper

+4

4 January 2026 14: 19

Again, we're not touching the terrorists – the drug lord and his gang? What, Supreme Commander/Guarantor? Why so?
Glagol1

+1

4 January 2026 14: 23

Bankova Street is the perfect target for a counterattack. And no one will utter a word – it's a counterattack!
1. gxmlygw
  
  +4
  
  4 January 2026 15: 07
  
  If they hit Bankova, it will only be when there is no one there.
rotkiv04

+15

4 January 2026 14: 26

Those who want to hit don't warn about it, and all these 1001 Chinese warnings only cause laughter, and this is especially in contrast to what the Americans did in Venezuela; if a person is a loser, then it's for life.
Alexander

+7

4 January 2026 15: 15

It is emphasized that the Russian Armed Forces may deploy ten Tu-95MS bombers, three Tu-160 bombers, and at least 400 Geran-2 UAVs. Furthermore, Kalibr cruise missiles, Iskander-M ballistic missiles, and Kinzhal hypersonic missiles may be used during the attack.

Since the author did not bother to provide a link to the "Russian sources" he mentioned, which reported the names and number of carriers of the already prepared strike, I tried to independently find the sources of his information in order to understand where all this was "emphasized."
As a result, we were able to find only the writings of the author himself, which we are all vying with each other to read and discuss here.
next322

+3

4 January 2026 16: 08

Ten Tu-95MS bombers, three Tu-160 bombers and at least 400 Geranium-2 UAVs can be deployed.

Russian sources are an abstract concept; any comments from lunatics can be substituted under this label, so the article is about nothing. Any old woman on a bench knows that they might be used at some point; everyone's been waiting for this for four years... But the cart is still there.
Ales

+3

4 January 2026 16: 39

The Russian Aerospace Forces have completed their redeployment and preparations for a combined strike against targets in Ukraine, Russian sources are now reporting.

— Sources? No way, it could only be for the purpose of disinformation by the enemy—to launch a conventional strike (of which we've already seen dozens) against a terrorist state, to sell a very successful pretext for closing the SVO issue in our favor—only an enemy could do that. I'm sure the Oreshnik missile and other new weapons will be used to strike both in Europe (parliaments, factories) and in Ukraine (leadership, bridges, border crossings, and the landing operation in the Danube-Dniester interfluve). Or not? And Russia will continue to hope that everything will resolve itself—the dollar will collapse, the US will disintegrate, and Europe will go bankrupt—though why not? For the past 26 years, Russia has been doing nothing but "waiting for the weather."
1. Alexander
  
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  4 January 2026 17: 18
  
  Quote: Ales
  Russia will continue to hope that everything will resolve itself—the dollar will collapse, the US will disintegrate, and Europe will go bankrupt—though why not? For the last 26 years, Russia has been doing nothing but “waiting for the weather to clear.”
  
  How else can you govern a country and its people? You listened to these fables for 26 years... worked for a hundred rubles, waiting for the dollar to collapse, the US to disintegrate, and Europe to end... fell ill and died peacefully, without ever having rebelled against any injustice in life. And that's fine... if the country maintains full support for the government and social stability for 26 years.
  And then our children, following their fathers' example, will listen to the same thing for the next 26 years, continuing to maintain peace and order in the country. And so on. That's why Russia cannot be defeated, either from the outside or, especially, from within.
Alexander Sh.

-4

4 January 2026 16: 45

Why on earth would the Ministry of Defense report to paper pushers about the strike's readiness, the number of forces and resources deployed for it? Utter nonsense. The strike will happen when needed and where it's needed. Impulsively reacting to every Ukrainian terrorist attack is unbecoming. Cold, sober calculation, and then a truly powerful and sensitive strike.
Yan Yanov

+5

4 January 2026 18: 00

Not a single ruler of Russia has ever mocked the people of Russia in such a way.
1. Dormidontov_Dormidont
  
  -6
  
  4 January 2026 19: 14
  
  Quote: Yan Yanov
  Not a single ruler of Russia has ever mocked the people of Russia in such a way.
  
  Said the Jewish commentator? Tell me how Netanyahu is mocking the Israeli people by dragging them into military adventures in the Middle East.
Alexey Lan

+3

4 January 2026 19: 19

Where do the firewood come from? " - “From the forest, obviously,
Father, do you hear, chops, and I take away. "

I wonder where this information about the preparation of the strike came from?
vsart

+1

4 January 2026 19: 38

Our "leaders" are acting indecisively and inconsistently. They publicly declared the attack on the Presidential residence an "act of state terrorism" with a mandatory retaliatory strike. Therefore, the State Duma should formalize this initiative into an official (formalized) document for retaliatory strikes against specific decision-making centers and officials, such as Budanov, Yermak, Malyuk, Syrsky, and others already listed as organizers of terrorist attacks against civilians, as well as senior officials of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The odious Trump knows no bounds; he brazenly advised Maduro to "watch his ass," but he ignored the warning about the kidnapping and paid dearly. In the end, they brought him to the Neureich detention center like a sheep with a sack over his head.

True, we have plenty of our own "sheep," including those who fled abroad, and the laws don't yet allow us to try foreign presidents and their accomplices. But this can be remedied; before Victory Day, the Duma deputies will come up with something for a military tribunal in Donbas. Meanwhile, bloodthirsty Ukrainian Russophobes should already be dreaming of Iskanders, Kinzhals, and other Kalibr-type missiles. And as a surprise, when they're ready to change their lair, two-thirds of Oreshnik for dessert, as well as other Fuhrer candidates (like Zaluzhny and Klitschko) for a lesson and operational compliance. And European neo-Nazi revanchists will sooner realize that retribution is inevitable, and any peace is better than war. The Ukrainian Nazis will no longer understand this; they long ago consciously chose their path—to hang all Muscovites and slaughter them. And, as history shows, this diagnosis is incurable...

The enemies of the Slavs always dreamed of great discord,
And Ukraine, neighboring Russia, was chosen for a reason.
On fertile lands it is easy for quarrels to arise,
Dividing two fraternal peoples into enemies forever.

Alas, the seeds of discord fell into prepared soil,
Some people have long been infected with arrogance and arrogance.
Dreams of independence and grace became a dark night,
The rich land was plunged into the darkness of bitter poverty.

All the vices of foreign rule reigned in power,
The corrupt elite rushes around the world with a begging hand.
The country is in disarray, and so far there are no forces of pacification in sight,
Capable of giving the people the much-desired hope of peace...

https://stihi.ru/2014/04/27/2828
1. Dormidontov_Dormidont
  
  -4
  
  4 January 2026 19: 56
  
  Response to provocateurs:
  If you have been forgiven for betrayal, this does not mean that you have ceased to be a traitor!
GR777

0

4 January 2026 21: 35

They've been waiting three years for what was promised. Has it really been three years already? When are you going to destroy the bridges over the Irpen?
GN

+4

4 January 2026 22: 42

It feels like the leadership is full of bourgeois traitors and thieves! What's going on? Four years of mindless slaughter from all sides, with no end in sight. It's best to remain silent about victory, as there won't be one with these cowards and weaklings! What a disgrace! They crushed a great country over their knee! And they continue to engage in blatant sabotage and betrayal of the interests of the country and the people!
1. rotkiv04
  
  +4
  
  4 January 2026 22: 56
  
  Why is this happening? It's true. People are simply being fooled by whoever sits in the Kremlin. But eventually, the intoxication will wear off, just like with Eltzman. Remember how everyone was so fond of him during the collapse of the Soviet Union, but he turned out to be a complete nonentity. Now, it turns out, it's hard to find anyone who supported that jerk; everyone was against him. The same will happen with the current one, but in due time. The current one's merit is that he prevented Russia from falling apart in the 90s and 2000s, and his subsequent rule was destructive. It's a shame most people don't understand this. But he should have left in time, and then his historical mission would have been fulfilled, but now he's crossed it out himself... unfortunately.
2. Dormidontov_Dormidont
  
  -4
  
  5 January 2026 06: 35
  
  Quote from G.N.
  It feels like the leadership is full of bourgeois traitors and thieves! What's going on? Four years of mindless slaughter from all sides, with no end in sight. It's best to remain silent about victory, as there won't be one with these cowards and weaklings! What a disgrace! They crushed a great country over their knee! And they continue to engage in blatant sabotage and betrayal of the interests of the country and the people!
  
  We need to continue to break the Ukrainian Reich over our knees, and then plow it twice more
Ten canarias

+4

4 January 2026 23: 18

In a week, the duration of the Second World War in Donbass will equal the duration of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, from Brest to Moscow and Stalingrad and back to Brest, Berlin and half of Europe... A sad coincidence...
1. rotkiv04
  
  +2
  
  4 January 2026 23: 36
  
  It's very sad, it's scary to think what our ancestors would have said about this war in 1945.
  1. it's good that someone is always to blame
    
    0
    
    4 January 2026 23: 52
    
    So they, the leadership, waited until that entire generation kicked the bucket.
    They'll tell us here that they've been waiting for this Donbass for 10 years, that there were still a dime a dozen living veterans there 10 years ago, an extra protest mass
    1. rotkiv04
      
      0
      
      4 January 2026 23: 54
      
      I agree... unfortunately
  2. Dormidontov_Dormidont
    
    -5
    
    5 January 2026 06: 38
    
    Quote: rotkiv04
    It's very sad, it's scary to think what our ancestors would have said about this war in 1945.
    
    Our ancestors would have said that the number of dead and wounded on the Soviet side during the liberation of Ukraine was tens of times higher than today. And now they're trying to minimize losses, for which we should thank the country's military leadership.
    1. Cmax
      
      +2
      
      5 January 2026 07: 44
      
      Quote: Dormidontov_Dormidont
      Quote: rotkiv04
      It's very sad, it's scary to think what our ancestors would have said about this war in 1945.
      
      Our ancestors would have said that the number of dead and wounded on the Soviet side during the liberation of Ukraine was tens of times higher than today. And now they're trying to minimize losses, for which we should thank the country's military leadership.
      
      Explain to me the difference between the deaths of "1000" people in one month and the deaths of "1000" people in a year. Doctors call this "sadomasochism"—spreading everything out over time. Don't forget about the economy, it's going to collapse soon. It's already stalling and it's obvious to everyone (increased VAT, removal of benefits for carriers on roads - Platon, huge bank interest rates, increased recycling fees, falling prices for our oil, reduced gas supplies abroad, constant fires at our refineries, regularly closing airports, internet shutdowns in cities with the accompanying problems. And now, the threat of a banking crisis is growing stronger due to loans issued to state enterprises to increase military production, starting in 2022. Due to high interest rates on loans, enterprises can't even pay back the interest. For the first time in history, Russian Railways has seen a negative impact on its income, and so on and so forth. "Optimists" like you all don't give a damn. We'll see what happens next. But something tells me we won't see anything good. January 12, 2026 will be exactly 1418 days since the beginning of the Second World War, the same days that the Great Patriotic War ended. 1941-1945, feel the difference! We haven't even liberated the Donetsk region yet.
      1. Dormidontov_Dormidont
        
        -3
        
        5 January 2026 10: 02
        
        Explain to me what the difference is between the death of 1000 people in 1 month or the death of 1000 people in a year.
        
        Explain the human losses in the USSR during WWII?
        According to Rosstat data published in the collection "Victory Figures" for the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War, the USSR's human losses during the war reached 26,6 million people.
        
        Some of them:
        5,2 million died in transit (on the way to hospitals);
        1,1 million - from wounds in hospitals;
        3,4 million were missing or captured;
        Another 555 thousand people died due to non-combat factors - diseases, natural disasters, and were shot.
        
        Irrecoverable losses (the number of people who permanently lost their combat ability) in the USSR amounted to 11,5 million military personnel.
        The civilian population of the Soviet Union decreased by 13,6 million people. Of these, 7,4 million were deliberately exterminated, 2,1 million died as forced laborers in Germany, and 4,1 million died from living conditions during the occupation.
        
        Stalin, Zhukov, the CPSU—are they to blame? Compare this with the current losses in the Central Military District, which, according to Slovushchy, have not been calculated, but are incomparable to the reported human losses in the Great Patriotic War?
        
        Grei grin
        
        0
        
        5 January 2026 14: 46
        
        How to understand the Word?
Valya

+2

5 January 2026 09: 56

More nonsense. Forget it.
anclevalico

+3

5 January 2026 10: 10

A response... That says it all. The whining continues.
Valya

0

5 January 2026 13: 47

So what's the big deal? When will it all start?
1. Grei grin
  
  +1
  
  5 January 2026 14: 41
  
  When the crayfish whistle on the mountain!
Grei grin

0

5 January 2026 14: 40

It's too bad they haven't bombed the main source of the infection, the Kyiv junta's gathering place! Trump is probably against it and won't give permission!
swistoff

0

5 January 2026 21: 49

I hope that the response for our dear "Leonid Ilyich" won't be the same as for the previously killed generals - "throw in a couple of Geraniums for Anatolych." Leonid Ilyich is out of the question!
alexdag

+3

5 January 2026 23: 11

They're taking a long time to get ready, maybe they hit someone and no one noticed?