They cannot get close enough. Russian SAMs would tear apart their old jets. I suspect that is what some of those new drones are all about.
Even if Ukraine can’t or won’t it would make for some good propaganda.
I can see the headlines: Ukraine missile battery takes out Russian SAM site in Russian territory. Good moral booster for the Ukrainians.
They can’t.
Their airfields are destroyed. Any airplanes they might have remaining can’t get off the ground. Missile bases have been targeted already. Even if they manage to get one off, the return fire will be instantaneous.
When these two knot-heads eventually sign an agreement ending this conflict, it will be the same agreement they could have signed before Putin attacked.
why would they?
Would doing so serve a clear military purpose? Not really. So how would such an attack benefit Ukraine? At best, it would be a waste of a scarce military resource for the sake of an uncertain political objective — with the risk of the Russians using it to claim that Ukraine had committed a war crime by bombing, say, an elementary school.
They have been killing Ukrainian Russian ethnic citizens in Donbass ( Ukraine) pretty much with impunity for 8 years - no need to attack someone who can hit back
Ukraine doesn’t have a chance. They have their hands full in trying to repel the invasion. Russia has 4,500 planes and thousands of tanks. Russia is doing what they did in Syria. Converge around a city, bomb and wait for civilians to flee from the city and then level the city. Eventually Russia Wins.
23 Oct 2002, Chechen rebels storm Moscow theatre taking 800 hostage ultimately killing 170.
Surprised we haven’t seen this from some Ukrainians.
YET.
They need to take out the Kerch Strait Bridge. That would be a strategic victory and possibly put the Crimea at risk.
I was thinking of a rogue MiG flight to bomb Moscow, kind of like Doolittle. It’s about 500 miles.
Hey from the propaganda I figured Zelensky was going to ride a tank into Red Square any minute.
The Russian strategy has been to force a negotiated deal. Thus, the reason, the Russians haven't made a move into Kiev.
THE TIDE OF (RUSSIAN) PUBLIC OPINION