Ukraine has stepped up its drone attacks against a wide spectrum of Russian military infrastructure targets.
“Ukrainians are reportedly attacking objects from St. Petersburg to Krasnodar, which is a 2,000-kilometer front line in the air.”
“Ukrainians have also reportedly accompanied the drone attack with a cyberattack on the Russian regional missile detection system.”
They also hit an oil depot in Tuapse, for which Suchomimus has a video:
That’s way beyond the Kerch Strait Bridge. Back to the first video.
“The Russians have also closed the sky near St. Petersburg. After Russian detection systems were set off, Russians reportedly used interceptor jets to eliminate the threat.” That’s more than 1,000km from Kiev, which must have Russian air defense planners freaking out. (Or drinking even more heavily than usual.)
The hit a number of targets in Crimea, though many of the drones launched there were shot down, and some were hijacked by Russian electronic warfare countermeasures. (Cue a Cory Doctorow-esque rant about the need for strong encryption.)
“Some analysts are saying that Ukrainians are just testing Russian air and electronic defense systems, and are creating an elaborate map for building more sophisticated trajectories. After they finish, these analysts are predicting a much larger scale attack, which would cause a lot of destruction of the airfields, as well as oil refineries and factories producing military equipment.”
“The second camp of analysts is saying that the goal of these attacks is to disperse Russian air defense that has been greatly concentrated on the fronts.”
Reporting from Ukraine is usually pretty solid and seems to have sources inside Ukraine’s defense ministry.
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Can’t wait to see what happens to repaired bridge on the Kerch Strait.
There’s a distinct cultural difference between the Russians and the Ukrainians that’s being mobilized here, and I don’t think that it’s necessarily going to work out in the Russian’s favor. Ukraine seems to be able to learn and implement things a hell of a lot faster than the Russians are showing, with the rate of innovation favoring the Ukrainians.
This isn’t a traditional war, in some senses. It’s a clash of worldviews and aspirations, and I think the Ukrainians are going to come out of the whole thing a lot stronger than the Russians, culturally and militarily.
Were I the Ukrainians, I’d put a great deal of effort in figuring out how to, one time, hit a high value target in Moscow or St Petersberg, in a way that makes it look like I could do it again.
And then announce that the Russians had two months to end their war against Ukraine, or else we’d be hitting those targets again and again, and they’d never have any rest until they left us alone.
Because that’s one place where the credible threat is far more valuable than actually doing it.
And a successful attack makes it so no one’s going to believe the authorities saying “they won’t be able to do it again”
Meanwhile, Russian army (plus Wagner Group) seem to be on the verge of taking over Bakmut, which isn’t that big of deal strategically speaking. 8 months back, taking Bakmut makes sense as it’s a good spot to link up with the other Russian conquered area (that has since been reconquered by AUF) for logistic. Right now it’s just a political statement for having wasted tens of thousands conscripts and prisoners just because Putin needs it. The ‘city’ have mostly been flatten by artillery, and AFU was just there to bleed Russian blood.
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Turns out, Putin and the Russians forgot that two people can play at the same games…
Can’t wait to see what happens to repaired bridge on the Kerch Strait.
There’s a distinct cultural difference between the Russians and the Ukrainians that’s being mobilized here, and I don’t think that it’s necessarily going to work out in the Russian’s favor. Ukraine seems to be able to learn and implement things a hell of a lot faster than the Russians are showing, with the rate of innovation favoring the Ukrainians.
This isn’t a traditional war, in some senses. It’s a clash of worldviews and aspirations, and I think the Ukrainians are going to come out of the whole thing a lot stronger than the Russians, culturally and militarily.
Were I the Ukrainians, I’d put a great deal of effort in figuring out how to, one time, hit a high value target in Moscow or St Petersberg, in a way that makes it look like I could do it again.
And then announce that the Russians had two months to end their war against Ukraine, or else we’d be hitting those targets again and again, and they’d never have any rest until they left us alone.
Because that’s one place where the credible threat is far more valuable than actually doing it.
And a successful attack makes it so no one’s going to believe the authorities saying “they won’t be able to do it again”
Meanwhile, Russian army (plus Wagner Group) seem to be on the verge of taking over Bakmut, which isn’t that big of deal strategically speaking. 8 months back, taking Bakmut makes sense as it’s a good spot to link up with the other Russian conquered area (that has since been reconquered by AUF) for logistic. Right now it’s just a political statement for having wasted tens of thousands conscripts and prisoners just because Putin needs it. The ‘city’ have mostly been flatten by artillery, and AFU was just there to bleed Russian blood.