The army of the aggressor country, Russia, has the resources to launch massive missile and drone strikes on Ukraine on average every 5-10 days. RBC-Ukraine reported this on June 1, citing sources.
This interval takes into account the time for reconnaissance and analysis of targets, the publication notes.
One of the informed media interlocutors pointed out: Ukraine knows for sure that they were preparing massive strikes, in particular on the night of May 24, even before the incident in Russian Starobelsk.
“If it weren’t for Starobelsk, they would have taken the Moscow Oil Refinery. For them, this is just an excuse,” he claims.
He and several other sources interviewed by RBC-Ukraine name quite similar real motives of the Kremlin. One of them is a kind of “retribution” for attacks on the Moscow region.
Another motive may be that Russia seeks to weaken Ukraine’s defense potential against the backdrop of Ukrainian attacks on its territory, the media notes.
The military leadership of the Russian Federation analyzed that while they were concentrating on Ukrainian energy facilities in winter, Ukrainian enterprises were intensively increasing the production of weapons. And after that, the Kremlin decided to shift the focus of its attacks again.
Although Russia has threatened to strike military targets, this is only one of its priorities, the publication writes. Indeed, over the past week, the Russian army has tried to attack energy substations, gas production facilities, airfields, transport and railway infrastructure, as well as ordinary civilian buildings where there were no decision-making centers.
According to the publication, a more global plan may be that through regular terror of Kyiv, the illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to force the Ukrainian authorities and population to peace on his terms. True, media sources in military circles are skeptical about Moscow’s success in this.
