The Russian military sought to blame the soldiers for their own deaths.
Putin said the Zircon missiles that the Admiral Gorshkov frigate was carrying were a “unique weapon,” capable of flying at nine times the speed of sound and with a range of 1,000 kilometers . Russia says the missiles can’t be intercepted.
But Ferris, the analyst, said that “there should be a bit of caution around leaning too heavily on this as a sign of Russian army’s weakness.” In the same post, the ministry said the building struck by Ukrainian missiles was little more than 12 kilometers from the front line, within “one of the most contested areas of the conflict,” in the partially Russian-occupied Donetsk region.
Vladlen Tatarsky, a well-known military blogger, accused Russian generals of “demonstrating their own stupidity and misunderstanding of what’s going on the troops, where everyone has cellphones.” The Institute for the Study of War saw in the incident further evidence that Moscow isn’t properly utilizing the reservists it began calling up last September.
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