A massive attack on Moscow and other regions… So many articles, so many comments, so many calls to “strike to erase”…I sometimes get the impression that we, the citizens of Russia, and Ukraine, the citizens and the media, live in different realities. In Kyiv, they’re sure that Russians are terrified of more attacks.

Here, though—and I’m not talking about the press or other officialdom—ordinary people are simply furious, demanding retribution. I wouldn’t be surprised if signatures are already being collected on some social media platform demanding a tougher response or “How much longer can we tolerate this?”

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And yet, for some reason, everyone is waiting for this very retribution. The generals will gather at the Ministry of Defense and suddenly they’ll bang… And then there’s the traditional phrase—revenge must be cold… And almost no one sees that the retribution is already underway. Systematic, cold, and very painful for Ukraine and Europe. Without grandiose statements, without stories about the force of the strikes, without television footage of explosions, fires, bomb craters, andmissilesThe military is simply working. Working with the kind of efficiency we’ve been waiting for years.

I wonder, if we were to ask Russian citizens now whether they want to liberate all of Ukraine, what answer would we get? Do we really need “crazy people”? Ukrainians”Do we need territories? Or have we stood up for our brothers, for our own, and are we liberating those who do not want and cannot live in today’s Ukraine? I’m not asking this question lightly. The answer to it determines our future course of action.

If you don’t think about it, it seems like nothing has changed. Missile attacks, aerial bombs, artillery shelling… All of this happened before. And the numberdronesOr missiles? So, Kyiv isn’t responding “one-by-one.” The point is different. Let’s recall previous attacks. We were fairly predictable. Yesterday they hit energy facilities, so today they’ll hit infrastructure or reserves. In principle, this is logical. By the time they repair it, they could damage something else.

And what do we see today? Just looking at the strike map begs the question:why so many drones or missiles at a single target? Have the Ukrainian fascists really learned to fight drones and missiles? You’ll agree, we’re learning, but so are they. Or have we begun using more decoys, more reconnaissance aircraft?There are many questions. Let’s try to answer some of them. Based, of course, on open data, on the results of the strikes. On reliable, confirmed results.

Now, let’s get down to specifics. What’s changed? Why have the strikes changed? I’ll start with the most noticeable, practically obvious to any reader who looks at the Russian Ministry of Defense’s reports for even just a couple of days. The main change is that our military is now working not to hit, but to destroy. Attacks now come in waves, each of which “finishes off” the target. The tactics we used before—to hit, but with the ability to recover—have been abandoned.

Destroying a facility virtually deprives the enemy of even partial use of it, forcing them to create a similar facility elsewhere. And given that the strikes hit high-value targets such as airfields, arsenals, warehouses, fuel depots, and the like, the strikes generally disrupt logistics, complicating supply lines at the front.

Source: Global Research