2023-04-29 08:58:39
According to British intelligence services, behind the recent Russian missile attacks on Ukraine lies a new strategy. The Ministry of Defense in London said on Saturday that it was unlikely that Russia wanted to destroy infrastructure with the wave of attacks on Friday morning, in which at least 25 people were killed.
There is a realistic possibility that Russia tried to attack Ukrainian reserve units as well as military supplies recently delivered to Ukraine. Russia is pursuing an “inefficient targeting process” and accepting civilian casualties in favor of an assumed military necessity.
The attack on April 28 was the largest use of cruise missiles since early March, it said. “The attacks indicate a shift away from Russia’s use of long-range strikes.” Fewer missiles were used than in the winter, when Russia was primarily targeting Ukrainian infrastructure. The Ministry of Defense in London has been publishing daily information on the course of the war since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, citing intelligence information. Moscow accuses London of a disinformation campaign.
Meanwhile, Moscow citizens commemorated the Ukrainian victims with flowers: “Police officers appeared at the Lesja Ukrainka monument in Moscow, where flowers were brought to commemorate the deceased Ukrainians,” reported the independent Internet portal Astra on Saturday night. The police officers later cleared the flowers and asked the mourners to “get away to Ukraine,” the portal reported, citing eyewitnesses. According to Astra, there were also spontaneous expressions of mourning in the provincial town of Yoshkar-Ola on the Volga. There, flowers appeared at the monument to the victims of political repression.
In the fall, after the rocket attack on a residential building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, which killed more than 40 people, the monument to the Ukrainian poet Lesja Ukrainka in Moscow became a memorial to the victims of the war. In the end, the police patrolled there to prevent the laying of flowers and wreaths.
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