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The artillery war is in the eastern parts of the country. For the major cities like the ones in the link, I think more damage was done by Russia striking with
by practice9 4y ago
The artillery war is in the eastern parts of the country.
For the major cities like the ones in the link, I think more damage was done by Russia striking with cruise rockets and/or air-dropped bombs like FAB-250 or FAB-500. At least for a moment while Russia had air superiority they dropped bombs like this on Mykolaiv.
It's very easy to attribute the rocket strikes against the civilians (example: the horrible one in Dnipro[1]) to Russia, as they don't really try to cover up anything.[2][3]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Dnipro_residential_building_airstrike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Dnipro_residential_buildi...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Russian_strikes_against_Ukrainian_infrastructure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Russian_stri...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremenchuk_shopping_mall_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremenchuk_shopping_mall_attac...
- pydry 4y agoIIRC the Dnipro attack was the one where Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych was summarily fired for admitting that the residential building was hit because the missile was shot down by Ukrainian anti aircraft missiles. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/17/ukrainian-adviser-quits-after-claims-over-russian-missile-that-killed-dozens https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/17/ukrainian-advi...
- practice9 4y agoI don't think the presidential advisor has access to military data. And the videos floating around show the incoming missile at high speed. IMO, if it really was hit, the trajectory would be different. The recent attack in Zaporizhya is similar: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2023/mar/22/cctv-russian-missile-hits-zaporizhzhia-apartment-block-urkaine-video https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2023/mar/22/cctv-rus...
- kspacewalk2 4y agoNot for "admitting". For claiming.
- killerstorm 4y agoArestovych is basically a pundit. He admitted he doesn't have any insider access to military information, he just aggregates official releases and rumors into some coherent view. There were many attacks on civilian objects before and after - in fact it seems like 90% of Russian targets are civilian. So I don't think there's any reason to treat that Dnipro attack as something special