Russia's recent attacks on cities across Ukraine — and the appointment of a commander nicknamed 'General Armageddon' — delighted pro-war hawks but ultimately don't change President Putin's military challenges, experts say.
Putin said Monday’s deadly strikes were revenge; Kyiv claimed they had been planned well in advance. Either way, they offered a further sign of the growing influence of hard-line voices as the war enters a decisive period with Russian troops on the retreat.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who led the backlash against Russia’s military chiefs for battlefield failures this month, said he was “now 100% satisfied” with how the war was going, reminding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that “Russia hasn’t really started yet.”But while the deadly attacks may have boosted some in Russia, they seemed unlikely to change the dynamic on the battlefield in a significant way.
Strikes have continued against civilian targets since Monday, but with nowhere near the same intensity. Russian-backed troops fire at Ukrainian positions from an undisclosed location in the Donetsk People's Republic on Tuesday.In fact, the attacks “wasted” some of Russia’s dwindling precision weapons by hitting civilian targets instead of military ones, according to anby the Institute for the Study of War, a U.S.-based military think tank, which could deprive Putin of ways to effectively disrupt Ukrainian counteroffensives.
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