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I don't think Putin is worried about loss of life of Ukrainian citizens. He is worried about losing soldiers, or more importantly dead soldiers being repatriate
by celticninja 5y ago
I don't think Putin is worried about loss of life of Ukrainian citizens. He is worried about losing soldiers, or more importantly dead soldiers being repatriated on the news. They will cover up civilian casualties or blame them on Ukrainian troops. The only support for this will come from Russia domestically and it is that which he seeks to maintain with this war. Which I'm guessing he hoped would be quick and decisive, avoiding the bloodshed of Russian soldiers that will be his undoing at home.
- hutzlibu 5y ago"I don't think Putin is worried about loss of life of Ukrainian citizens." Then he would just shell and flatten all the ukrainian cities. Russia has air superiority as far as I know.
- selfhoster11 5y agoEvery city he doesn't shell, is a city he doesn't have to rebuild. Roads and other pieces of infrastructure are valuable, no matter how old.
- hutzlibu 5y agoAnd every ukrainian with family ties to russias heartland that not dies, is one family less to worry about politically.
- EugeneOZ 5y agoPutin just wants to create another puppet-state, same as Belarus. He absolutely doesn't care about the lives of civilians, but ruining the infrastructure is not in his plans (only strategical infrastructure)
- csee 5y agoHe should be worried about catastrophic losses like that, it'd be a propaganda coup against him. Small scale killings can be swept under the rug though.
- drekipus 5y agoThis isn't the US in Iraq, we're talking about Russia and Ukraine here
- csee 5y agoRussia still has social media. A catastrophic loss of Ukranian civilians in one event won't get buried easily.
- beaconstudios 5y agoHowever, as an autocratic state, I wouldn't be surprised if Russian social media was shut down if it was used to spread messages contrary to state propaganda.