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The Inexplicable Russian Strategy
Russian commanders refuse to learn from the Battle of the Bulge
On Friday, 28 April 2023, the Russian Defense Ministry said it used “high precision, long range missiles” against Ukrainian targets and the “goal of the attack has been reached.”
Russia can proudly declare that its goal has been achieved if the number of civilians you kill is the measure of your effectiveness. The attack was the most devastating since January.
The target was an apartment building in Uman, 200 kilometers from the frontline. The death toll is at least 25. The Ukrainian military responded to the attack by lighting up a fuel depot in Sevastopol. This depot was used to store fuel for Russia’s Black Sea fleet.
On Saturday, a spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence service said the fire at the fuel depot in Sevastopol was “God’s punishment” for Uman, the city where a Russian missile strike a day earlier killed 23 people, including six children. Two women remain missing, according to the Ukrainian interior minister, Ihor Klymenko.
“This punishment will be long-lasting,” the spokesman, Andriy Yusov, said. “All residents of the temporarily occupied Crimea should not be near military facilities and facilities that supply the aggressor’s army in the near future.”
