Friday 1 April 2022

Russian military caught napping

I'm assuming Putin's military chiefs HAVE told him that the Ukrainians managed to fly two helicopters over the Ukrainian border into Russia and drop missiles on a fuel storage site in Belgorod. An amazing operation. Amazing, because if the Belgorod site had any air defence systems around the Russian military failed to fire them or if they didn't have any air defence systems around then a key fuel location was left vulnerable to attack. Putin will be steaming. Not for the first time. It's yet another humiliation for Putin and his defence minister Sergei Shoigu. I doubt they will be going on any fishing trips together in the near future or ever again. It was certainy a bold move by Ukraine but they must have had pretty good intelligence about whether the fuel depot was defended or not. Perhaps by some US eyes in the sky? Anyway it opens a new chapter in the Ukraine war. Kyiv is basically saying to Moscow, you attack us in our country and we attack you in yours. The missile strike on Belgorod will not be the last, of that I am sure. There must be a long list of potential targets for Ukraine's courageous attack helicopter pilots. It will make Putin and the Kremlin even more jumpy about those pesky Ukrainians who were supposed to surrender on day one or two of the invasion. It could be a long war, months if not years.

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