One of the targets was the headquarters of the SBU, the notorious CIA-allied 'intelligence' service that killed one of the non-country's own negotiators in the streets of Kiev.
My question is: why on earth was the SBU not targeted on Day 1?
Because Russia didn't think it needed to. The russian leadership thought they'd win a quick victory. After they bogged down in March, they started firing a lot of cruise missiles, but it was too late as UKR targets had dispersed and the fixed targets were empty. The fact that the UKR air force wasn't destroyed on the ground is all you need to know about how utterly incompetent Russia was and is.
Russia is also fighting a propaganda war, and knows that the more it goes after cities and civilians, the more Ukraine can use this to appeal for more and more aid and get more and more attention from Western media. Russia's game plan has been to hope that the West gets bored of Ukraine and moves on.
The fact that UKR successfully took out the very expensive Kerch bridge caused Putin to tilt, and he violated his own strategy to order petty reprisal attacks on civilian areas, which is causing a huge propaganda coup in favor of Ukraine and against Russia this morning. The Western media and politicians are lit up and invigorated by the fresh Russian attacks on civilians.
Btw, Ant believed a lie (either they missed the SBU office or the missile was just shot down, it fell on a street nearby and killed only 5 random people in their cars at an intersection).
Another one hit a playground further down.
But I don't think it all even matters as they keep just leveling entire villages and towns elsewhere (currently mostly in the Bakhmut direction where the Wagner conscripted criminals are continuously thrown in frontal attack) and a few more missiles hitting this or that is but a distraction.
One of the targets was the headquarters of the SBU, the notorious CIA-allied 'intelligence' service that killed one of the non-country's own negotiators in the streets of Kiev.
My question is: why on earth was the SBU not targeted on Day 1?
Because Russia didn't think it needed to. The russian leadership thought they'd win a quick victory. After they bogged down in March, they started firing a lot of cruise missiles, but it was too late as UKR targets had dispersed and the fixed targets were empty. The fact that the UKR air force wasn't destroyed on the ground is all you need to know about how utterly incompetent Russia was and is.
Russia is also fighting a propaganda war, and knows that the more it goes after cities and civilians, the more Ukraine can use this to appeal for more and more aid and get more and more attention from Western media. Russia's game plan has been to hope that the West gets bored of Ukraine and moves on.
The fact that UKR successfully took out the very expensive Kerch bridge caused Putin to tilt, and he violated his own strategy to order petty reprisal attacks on civilian areas, which is causing a huge propaganda coup in favor of Ukraine and against Russia this morning. The Western media and politicians are lit up and invigorated by the fresh Russian attacks on civilians.
Btw, Ant believed a lie (either they missed the SBU office or the missile was just shot down, it fell on a street nearby and killed only 5 random people in their cars at an intersection).
Another one hit a playground further down.
But I don't think it all even matters as they keep just leveling entire villages and towns elsewhere (currently mostly in the Bakhmut direction where the Wagner conscripted criminals are continuously thrown in frontal attack) and a few more missiles hitting this or that is but a distraction.