π·πΊπΊπ¦ What do foreigners think about Russian attacks on Ukraine's infrastructure?
The largest single salvo of Russian missiles in months of the operation yesterday morning, and continued strikes today, caused a stir on foreign Telegram channels.
The largest single salvo of Russian missiles in months of the operation yesterday morning, and continued strikes today, caused a stir on foreign Telegram channels.
βͺοΈ American journalist Oliver Martin believes that the new strikes demonstrate the following:
The minimal number of casualties and the lack of significant damage to civilian targets demonstrates the high effectiveness of Russian strikes.
The minimal number of casualties and the lack of significant damage to civilian targets demonstrates the high effectiveness of Russian strikes.
The duration of the strikes demonstrates Russia's significant stockpile of precision-guided weapons, as well as its ability to reproduce them quickly, which refuted the belief by many that Russian missiles had supposedly run out as early as March.
βͺοΈ Even according to official Ukrainian data, 12 people were killed during the shelling. That is why it is impossible, with all the will in the world, to present another shocking picture to a Western viewer. Although the media is certainly trying very hard.
The Za PraVda channel is surprised that loud condemnations of the shelling come even from Bulgaria, a country that officially declared it won't supply weapons to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Bulgarian weapons are repeatedly found in the war zone, and the suppliers have been traced.
βͺοΈ Despite the predictable first reactions of European leaders, according to Italian journalist Rosella Fidanza, it is not only Ukraine that will face the consequences of the Russian strikes, since the export of electricity to the EU stopped today.
βͺοΈ The channel @ italiazforzaverita, continuing the theme of EU difficulties, notes that in the press, from time to time, thoughts about "the inadmissibility of the economic domination of the United States against the background of a weakened Europe" are breaking through
and, perhaps, with the onset of winter and protests over utility prices, they will be heard more and more loudly. However, it is unlikely that even the complete destruction of the Ukrainian energy system will make the European elites back down, so we should not count on it.
βͺοΈ The French channel ActualiteFR has expressed some skepticism about the Russian strikes, which they see as an apparently limited, symmetrical response to Ukrainian shelling.
Nevertheless, they see a clear demonstration that even a few missiles can bring down Ukrainian infrastructure if the right vulnerable targets are chosen.
βͺοΈ Spanish channel Vakulinchuk agrees. A systematic continuation of strikes is necessary, because Ukraine will certainly continue to retaliate and accumulate forces for new attacks.
The sending of NATO mercenaries and training of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers are both on the rise, which means that the longer Russia delays destroying all Ukrainian logistics, the more people will die on the battlefield.
The French analytical channel Terra Bellum believes that Russia is stalling until November-December, when mobilized troops will be ready for a counteroffensive. [They say] the infrastructure strikes in the deep rear are designed to paralyze Ukrainian command,
disrupt electric trains, communications and troop movements for offensives in the south; in addition to the already accumulated fatigue of Ukrainian soldiers, who conducted a successful offensive against Russian positions a few weeks ago.
βͺοΈ Analyst Pepe Escobar opined that the Russian strikes were an "incentive" to force NATO to negotiate and a successful means to permanently deprive Kyiv of its ability to wage war. The key question is how the White House will respond and whether it will dare to raise the stakes.
We saw the answer this afternoon from statements about new air defense equipment deliveries to Ukraine. German IRIS-Ts have already arrived and NASAMS are expected soon.
This means that, while the Ukrainian command has not yet had time to qualitatively improve air defense, it is time to move on to priority targets, such as 750kV substations, which we discussed in detail earlier with RT.
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