The 2 missiles that weren’t shot down targeted a 9 story apartment building in Uman and killed 10 civilians at last count.
This attack was strange. In the winter attacks, Russia had been launching an a wave of Iranian drones about 2 hours prior to the cruise missiles launches. This time, no Iranian drones were launched in advance. They just sent the missiles on their own. So Ukrainian air defenses were able to focus on the cruise missiles and as a result, the 91% shoot down rate this time.
Given 2 missiles were sent against a single apartment building, I would wager the missiles that were shot down were also targeting apartment buildings with this attack. This was a sour grapes attack by Putin and nothing more.
What’s telling is that Putin has attacked Mykolaiv 2 nights in a row with $1-$2 million cruise missiles which is a waste of money. Another sign that this was a sour grapes attack. Particularly since the defenders of Mykolaiv stopped Putin from advancing to Odesa at the beginning of the invasion.
General SVR said today Putin is raging that Bakhmut hasn’t been taken by his latest deadline of April 30 and now the new deadline is May 8 before the Moscow “victory parade”.
I expect more sour grapes attacks by Putin directed towards civilians unfortunately.
This seems like an incredible waste of weaponry esp with the focus being on a coming Ukrainian counter offensive where these weapons would be more useful.
Everything that I have read states that the bombing of German cities during WW2 had limited effect on the war. Attacking infrastructure and war making capacities did even if strategic bombing at that time was relatively ineffective. With that said todays technology allows for one bomb or missile to do more damage than dozens of B-17s, so to use these weapons against civilian targets is both criminal and a poor use of these weapons
If this is rage, it is equally ineffective
Much of what has been demonstrated by Russian military is unexplainable, launching expensive technologically advanced weapons against civilian targets, sending 2-3 bmps or tanks across an open field, human wave attacks…..
Apparently myself and many others were projecting some military tactical, operational and strategic changes more akin to western doctrine than was deserved. In hindsight the actions in Afghanistan Georgia and Chechnya should have alerted us
My 2 cents