Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Ratchet

Moscow has been targeted with a large-scale drone attack for the first time in its 15-month-old war in Ukraine, marking a new inflection point in a conflict that the Kremlin said would never threaten the lives of ordinary Russians.

Russia continues to pummel Ukraine with deadly missile and drone strikes on a near-daily basis. Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, faced its third air raid in 24 hours on Tuesday morning.

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The Russian defence ministry said eight drones targeted the city overnight but Russian media close to the security services wrote that the number was many times higher, with more than 30 drones participating in the attack.

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In a television appearance on Tuesday, Putin praised Moscow’s air defences and said Kyiv was trying to scare Russians by striking civilian targets. Putin also claimed Russian forces were only striking military facilities in Ukraine using “high-precision weapons”.

  Guardian
Precisely striking schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, libraries, and other civilian targets.
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesperson, said Vladimir Putin had no immediate plans to address the country and claimed there was “no imminent threat to residents of Moscow and the Moscow region either”.
The people who live in these apartments might have a different opinion.


...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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