In retaliation for the bombing of the Crimea Bridge, Russia has launched multiple missiles on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities since the 10th, although Moscow has re-directed the war in more than seven months of massacres. Returning to Ukrainian cities that feel relatively safe, but also reuniting Ukraine’s allies and accelerating the pace of supplying the air defense systems Ukraine needs.
With the support of Iranian-made drones, the Russian military launched massive missiles, causing heavy casualties among Ukrainian people and destroying a lot of infrastructure. However, Ukraine’s fall counterattack made Russia unable to withstand it, and Russia fell into the dilemma of insufficient military strength and insufficient funds and weapons. In addition to drones, Russia now seems to have only missiles left to bomb Ukraine’s infrastructure.
The cost of the indiscriminate bombardment was enormous, with Forbes staff in Ukraine estimating the cost of the heavy munitions used by Russia at between $400 million and $700 million. Russia is unlikely to sustain an onslaught of this magnitude for long. For nearly 8 months, the Russian military has launched missiles intermittently across Ukraine, and the stock has been affected, and Russia may not have enough funds to manufacture more missiles to attack.
Russia, on the other hand, has fired so many missiles with no real effect, far from causing devastating damage to Ukraine’s infrastructure. In the city of Dnipro (Dnipro) in central Ukraine, two expensive cruise missiles hit a long-abandoned telecommunications building and a bus, and exploded a large crater on the ground, but the road was repaired on the morning of the 11th.
In addition, a video circulating on the Internet shows that the missile hit the ground under the bridge of Kyiv’s well-known scenic spot “Klitschko Bridge” at regarding 8:18:47 on the 10th, and then raised smoke and dust in the sky. The man in the peaked cap was crossing the overpass and was almost engulfed by black smoke. He mightn’t understand the situation, so he stood there in fright. Fragments of explosives were flying all over the sky. After he recovered, he ran away in a panic. There appears to be no visible damage.
The Russian bombing of Ukraine is likely to only send a message of success at home. The Russian military has not been able to attack Ukraine for a long time. Since the mobilization of Russian President Vladimir Putin, thousands of families have been involved in the war. Rare public criticism. However, Ramzan Kadyrov, the puppet leader of the Chechen Autonomous Republic who had originally attacked the Russian army with heavy artillery, suddenly expressed satisfaction with the progress of the war following seeing the Russian army bombing Ukraine frantically.
State Duma (lower house) Defense Committee Chairman Andrey Kartapolov urged Russians to unite in Putin in the latest broadcast of “Sunday Evening With Vladimir Solovyov” Behind him, and advocating that missiles should continue to hit Ukraine’s infrastructure, he stressed: “They already think we’re villains anyway. It’s better to be feared than laughed at”.
In this regard, Andrey Sidorov, deputy head of the Department of World Politics at Moscow State University, agreed, saying that the recent crackdown was “psychologically” important and should continue. Russian political scientist Sergey Mikheyev believes that destroying Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure should be a priority from the start, and propaganda fears are far more important than the U.S. high-mobility multiple rocket system HIMARS. Effective weapon.
Many Kremlin mouthpieces also preach on social media that fear is an integral element of Russia’s current military strategy. Yet since Russia went to war with Ukraine, Moscow has relentlessly attacked Ukrainian civilian targets or infrastructure. No matter in Zaporizhzhia or even earlier in Mariupol, the Russian army has continued to bomb Ukrainian civilian facilities since the 10th. It has not suddenly changed its moral code, but it has only expanded its scale.
Nick Paton Walsh, CNN’s editor-in-chief of international security, said: “Obviously this week, Russia is trying to continue (attacks), but of course many questions remain, how many missiles (Russia) do they actually have? Also, let me point out that (Russian) attacks on civilian targets are not new.”
On the 14th, the large city of Zaporozhye in southern Ukraine was attacked by Russian missiles, and of course the capital Kyiv was not spared. A Ukrainian citizen told reporters: “(I heard) it was like a whistle, and it exploded following two seconds, touch! I am sitting in the corner, if I sit here, I will die, hello Putin, the devil should, To be stabbed to death with a poplar twig.”
Despite Putin’s claims that Russia used “long-range, high-precision weapons” to carry out large-scale attacks on “Ukrainian energy, military command and communications facilities”, in fact more missiles were directed towards Ukrainian residential areas. Ukraine has also received assurances from the White House that it will provide an advanced air defense system, the “Aegis of National Defense” that Ukraine has been demanding for months.
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In retaliation for the bombing of the Crimea Bridge, Russia has launched multiple missiles on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities since the 10th, although Moscow has re-directed the war in more than seven months of massacres. Back to those Ukrainian cities that felt relatively safe, but also reunited Ukraine’s allies and accelerated the pace of supplying the air defense systems Ukraine needed.
Although Putin claimed that Russia used “long-range, high-precision weapons” to carry out large-scale attacks on “Ukrainian energy, military command and communication facilities”, in fact more missiles were flown to residential areas in Ukraine. Ukraine has also received assurances from the White House that it will provide an advanced air defense system, the “Aegis of National Defense” that Ukraine has been demanding for months.
