The barrage of missiles launched Monday from Moscow on the cities of Ukraine has been satisfied With joy by Russian officials and pro-Kremlin commentators, who in recent weeks had actively criticized the Russian military for a series of embarrassing defeats on the battlefield.
Indeed attack continued this Tuesday in some Ukrainian cities such as Lviv and Zaporiya. While kyiv woke up with part of its center in ruins and with the fear of other bombings.
During the night Zaporiya was bombed, one attack left one dead and buildings were damaged.
Ukraine ordered its entire population to remain in shelters on Tuesday don’t ignore anti-aircraft sirens.
Lviv was also attacked. Their electrical structures have been targeted. Regional leader Mazym Kozytksyy said there were three explosions at two power plants that caused it huge blackouts. Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said it was an attack with missiles.
Lviv had already been heavily attacked on Monday when Russia bombed 10 cities in total, including the capital Kyiv, for the first time in months. forcing the population to return to shelters and seek shelter in the subway.
G7 Summit: the war is spreading
The G7 decided to address this emergency on Tuesday to discuss the recent Russian attack campaign, which has sparked outrage in the international community.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky will attend Tuesday’s G7 meeting to discuss the Russian attacks. And he will likely demand more and better weapons against the Russian invaders, especially anti-aircraft defense systems.
The office of the British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, indicated that the prime minister he will insist on “exhorting his peers to stay on course”.
“We must not hesitate one iota in our determination to help “Ukraine to achieve peace,” added Truss’s office.
German government spokesman Steff Hebestreit said on Monday that Prime Minister Olaf Scholz had talks with Zelensky and it guaranteed “the solidarity of Germany and the other G7 countries”.
Joe Biden strongly condemned Monday’s attacks, observing it “demonstrate the brutality” of Putin’s “illegal war”.
The White House said Biden spoke to Zelensky to offer it to him an “advanced air defense system”.
For the UN secretary general, António Guterres, the attacks are “an unacceptable escalation of the war”.
Happy Russian nationalists
Russian nationalist commentators and state media war correspondents praised Monday attacksto which they described as an appropriate and expected response the successful Ukrainian counter-offensive in the north-east and south, and a weekend attack on a crucial bridge connecting Russia and Crimea, a precious Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014.
However, many argued that Moscow should maintain the intensity of the attacks some missiles on Monday to win the war now. Some analysts have suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin is becoming hostage to the views of his allies on how the campaign in Ukraine should play out.
“Putin’s initiative weakens and becomes more dependent of the circumstances and those who plan “victory” (in Ukraine) for him, “Tatyana Stanovaya, founder of the independent think tank R. Politik, wrote on Monday in an online comment.
“The fear of defeat is so strong, especially for those who are already fully immersed in this military initiative, that Putin’s indecision, with his logic of ‘we haven’t started anything yet’ and ‘moderate tactics have paid off’. , I know it has become a problemadded the analyst.
Putin’s defenders they had been asking for measurements for weeks more drastic in the fighting in Ukraine. Such demands increased over the weekend after the explosion of the Kerch bridge connecting Crimea with Russia. an image that has been around the world. The longest bridge in Europe is a symbol of Russian military might and was opened by Putin in 2018.
“Yup?”, Margarita Simonyan, director of RT state television, asked on social media what Moscow’s response to the bridge attack would be.
“This is one of those cases where the country has to prove it we can answer ‘‘wrote Alexander Kots, war correspondent for the popular pro-Kremlin tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda.
“Time to fight! Fiercely, even cruelty. Without looking back at Western censorship, “Sergei Mironov, a prominent Russian lawmaker who leads state-backed party A Just Russia, tweeted Saturday.” There will be no bigger sanctions. They won’t say anything worse. We have to do our thing. We started, we have to go to the end. There is no going back. Time to answer! “
The answer came on Monday morning, when Moscow fired dozens of missiles at the same time at Ukrainian cities, killing and injuring dozens and causing unprecedented damage to Ukrainian critical infrastructure. The attacks, which hit 15 Ukrainian cities, most of them regional capitals, collapsed power lines, damaged railway stations and highways and left cities without running water.
For the first time in months, missiles exploded in the heart of Kyiv, dangerously close to government buildings.
Putin said on Monday that the attacks were retaliation for Kiev’s “terrorist” acts against the Kerch bridge and promised a “hard” and “proportionate” response if Ukraine carried out more attacks that threatened Russia’s security.
“Nobody should have any doubts about it,” he said.
“Here’s the answer,” Simonyan tweeted from RT after the attacks. “The Crimean bridge was that red line from the start.”
The leader of Chechnya, a Russian region in the North Caucasus, Ramzan Kadyrov, said now I was “100% happy”‘with the march of the Kremlin’s “special military operation”. He was one of the strongest advocates of “more drastic measures” in Ukraine and even called for the use of small-caliber nuclear weapons.
“Good news”
Moscow-installed governor of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, described the attacks as “Good news”.
The applause of the Kremlin’s defenders, however, was accompanied by the demands of Putin and the Russian army keep the pace and intensity of attacks and damage to Ukrainian infrastructure.
In his statement, Aksyonov stressed that “if similar measures were taken every day to destroy enemy infrastructure, we would have finished it all in May and the kiev regime would have been defeated. ”
“I hope that the pace of the operation will not slow down now,” Aksyonov wrote.
RT star presenter Anton Krasovsky shared a video in which he was seen dancing on a balcony in a cap with a Z and said in a Telegram post that the damage to the Ukrainian power grid was “Not enough! Not enough!”
Another state television reporter, Andrei Medvedev, described Monday’s attacks as “a logical step, which not only was required by society for a long time, but the military situation required a different strategy in hostilities.”
“And so it was. But does it change a lot?” Asked Telegram Medvedev, who works for the state television group VGTRK and is a Moscow adviser.
“If attacks on critical infrastructure become the order of the day, if attacks on railways, bridges and power plants become part of our tactics, then it changes (the situation). But for now, according to (official) statements, no decision was made to plunge Ukraine into the Middle Ages, ” Medvedev wrote.
Political analyst Stanovaya noted in a Telegram post on Monday that there was “strong pressure” on Putin to “switch to aggressive strategies, massive bombings” and that this had prompted him to act.
“Today it can be said that Putin has been persuaded to resort to a more aggressive line. And it fits his understanding of the situation. But it is a slippery path, there is no turning back,” Stanovaya said.
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Source: Clarin
