Wasting their missiles…
“Russia has a limited supply of cruise missiles and it chose to use them en masse today to target a # of symbolic non-military targets. This may have been more for domestic consumption after the Crimean Bridge explosion than to try to coerce Ukrainians (which won’t work)”
“Other targets appear to be business or infrastructure sites. Some Russian commentators were criticizing Russia’s leadership for not embracing a total war approach including destroying Ukraine’s economy. Possibly an asymmetric response to Ukraine’s upper-hand on the battlefield.”
“Random terrorist attacks against Ukrainian cities at a time when Russia is losing on the ground in Eastern Ukraine won’t lessen Ukraine’s resolve (in fact, the opposite), but we need to try to understand here what Putin is thinking.”
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1579384815614562307?cxt=HHwWhsDQpeaHjesrAAAA
“Pissing away your valuable limited resource of cruise missiles to hit a playground, public park, civilian traffic etc is the most russian military thing you could imagine..”
https://twitter.com/Mupper41/status/1579370060032126976?cxt=HHwWgMDR0fSshusrAAAA