In retaliation for the bombing of the Crimean Bridge, Russia has fired more missiles on the Ukrainian capital Kiev and other cities since the 10th, although Moscow has redirected the war into more than seven months of massacres. safe, but also uniting 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 has launched huge missiles, causing heavy casualties among the Ukrainian people and destroying much infrastructure. However, Ukraine’s falling counterattack has rendered Russia unable to resist, and Russia has fallen into the dilemma of insufficient military strength and insufficient funds and weapons.In addition to drones, Russia now appears to have only missiles to bomb infrastructure of Ukraine.
The cost of the indiscriminate bombing was enormous, with Forbes personnel in Ukraine estimating the cost of heavy ammunition used by Russia at $ 400 to $ 700 million. Russia is unlikely to sustain an assault of this magnitude for long. For nearly 8 months, the Russian military has been firing missiles intermittently across Ukraine and the stock has been hit and Russia may not have enough funds to produce more missiles to attack.
Russia, on the other hand, has launched 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 a large crater on the ground exploded, but the road was repaired on the morning of 11. .
Additionally, a video released on the Internet shows that the missile hit the ground under the bridge of Kiev’s famous “Klitschko Bridge” lookout point at around 8:18:47 am on the 10th, and then sent smoke and dust into the sky. The man in the cap was crossing the overpass and was nearly engulfed in the black smoke. He couldn’t understand the situation and was so scared that he stood there in shock. Fragments of explosives flew across the sky. After he recovered, he quickly escaped, with no apparent damage.
The Russian bombing of Ukraine is likely to send only a successful message home. The Russian army was unable 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 initially attacked the Russian army with heavy artillery, suddenly expressed satisfaction with the progress of the war after seeing the Russian army frantically bomb Ukraine.
The chairman of the Defense Committee of the State Duma (lower house) Andrey Kartapolov urged the Russians to join Putin in the latest broadcast of “Sunday Evening With Vladimir Solovyov” Behind him, and arguing that the missiles should continue to hit the Ukraine’s infrastructure, he stressed: “They already think we are bad guys anyway. It is better to be feared than mocked.”
In this regard, Andrey Sidorov, deputy head of Moscow State University’s Department of World Politics, agrees, stating that the recent crackdown is “psychologically” important and should continue. Russian political scientist Sergey Mikheev argues that destroying Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure should be a priority from the start, fear of propaganda is far more important than the effective weapon of the US HIMARS high-mobility multiple missile system.
Many Kremlin spokespersons also preach on social media that fear is an integral element of Russia’s current military strategy. However, ever since Russia entered the 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 been bombing Ukrainian civilian structures since the 10th. It did not suddenly change its moral code, but 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 a lot of questions remain, how many missiles (Russia) do they actually have? (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 Kiev was not spared. A Ukrainian citizen told reporters: “(I heard) it was like a whistle, and it blew up after two seconds, touch! I’m sitting in the corner, if I sit here, I’ll die, hello Putin, the devil should, To be stabbed. to death with a sprig of poplar “.
Despite Putin’s claims that Russia has used “long-range, high-precision weapons” to carry out large-scale attacks on “Ukrainian energy, military command and communications facilities,” in reality more missiles have been aimed at the 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”, which Ukraine has been requesting for months.
A morning walk at the Kiev arch pic.twitter.com/re0vxfNRGn
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