#polit_analysis Destroying Ukraine's energy infrastructure - what is Putin's goal.
There are three main reasons why Russia has switched to missile terror:
First, the Kremlin hopes that certain unrest will begin within Ukraine. /1
The Russians still hope that the Ukrainian society, dissatisfied with the lack of the basic benefits of civilization - light, heat, water in the cold winter period - will make claims to the Ukrainian authorities.
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Secondly, the Kremlin is trying to stir up certain discussions in the West, which financially supports Ukraine. The notional $5 billion a month average that Ukraine needs could simply increase exponentially during the winter months, when the West will need to support /3
Ukraine to just get through this winter.
Thirdly, it is possible to create chaos in Europe due to an even larger wave of Ukrainian asylum seekers who will be forced to leave Ukraine because there will be no electricity, water and heat in the winter. /4
But here, too, Putin miscalculated. Recent studies of migration organizations in Europe show that, for example, in Germany and Poland, where the largest number of Ukrainians have settled, most of them have already found work. /5
That is, we do not create such a migration burden on the EU countries.
Russian occupiers shelled the territory of Kherson Oblast 54 times. Racists continue to use terror tactics - purposefully hitting civilians and civilians in the region.
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➖Kherson district - residential quarters of Kherson again came under enemy fire, enemy shells hit private residences, a garage cooperative, and an educational institution.
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Russian occupiers also shelled Chornobayivka, Prydniprovske, Muzikyvka, Zelenivka, Antonivka, Blagovishchenske, Priozerne and Komysany.
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The Russian army is bombarding Ukraine with obsolete missiles from its nuclear arsenal, removing their warheads. This conclusion was made by British intelligence, having studied photographs of downed shells.
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Open source images show the wreckage of a destroyed AS-15 Kent (X-55) air-launched cruise missile designed in the 1980s to carry nuclear weapons. The warhead was probably replaced with ballast, intelligence officials say.
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Most likely, Russian forces use such missiles as decoys to divert Ukrainian air defenses. Projectiles are dangerous even without nuclear warheads, since they can cause damage "due to their kinetic energy and unused fuel." However, /3
Interesting facts about the battles for Snake Island became known
In order to shell the Katsap positions on Zmeiny Island, the Ukrainians put Caesars (40 km radius) on barges, dragged them 10 km and hit the island (50 km from the coast), which surprised the French, /1
writes the New York Times.
Among the NATO military, the Ukrainian army is sometimes called the "MacGyver Army" - in honor of the hero of the old television series, who was extremely inventive and improvised with any objects at hand.
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36% of the state budget of the Russian Federation will fall into the clutches of security forces next year. This is only officially, in reality - much more. War becomes the main business of Putin's family
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🫵 The following year, the Shoigu reindeer herders, Bortnikovs, Patrushevs and beauties, under the guise of war, issued a check to the state for more than $150 billion.
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👉 This is good business and a good opportunity to continue the war. Against the background of a sharp sanction reduction of oil and gas revenues, the so-called "SVO" and the military budget are becoming the main feeding ground for all the Fuhrer's voracious supporters.
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Dygnsuppdatering. Frontlinjerna står som förr med mindre justeringar hitåt och ditåt. Vi kommer att se en decemberoffensiv från vår sida och katt och råtta leken har påbörjats.
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Vårt artilleri beskjuter både donbas och södra delen av Kherson
Jag är säker på att generalstab har sina planer klara och väntar på att orcerna skall tappa nerverna och blotta sig De måste bestämma sig för vart de skall sända de soldater från Kherson som nu står till förfogande/2
deras befäl förstår att de inte har resurser till en egen offensiv, allt behövs till försvar. Dessutom måste de gissa sig till varifrån vi kommer. Låt oss diskutera lite hur ryzzen nu tänker, för militärer är mina tankar mycket kända, och vilka alternativ man spekulerar i.
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Vasily Boechko: historian who became an artilleryman and Hero of Ukraine
When in the summer of 2015 a certified historian Vasily Boechko was invited to the district military registration and enlistment office in the village of Semakovtsy, Ivano-Frankivsk region, /1
he did not look for ways to avoid military service. He packed his things, hugged his wife Alexandra, hugged his daughter Yanochka to himself, went out the gate of his native house and set off with a confident step to comprehend military science.
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The senior lieutenant of the reserve was first sent to a monthly retraining course at the National Academy of the Ground Forces. Hetman Petro Sahaydachny. And two weeks later, after completing his studies, he was already in the ATO area, holding the position of commander /3