Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin has been remarkably reserved and selective in his targeting, considering the scale and capability of the massively armed nation to obliterate Ukraine metropolitan areas.
Russia absorbed all the Ukraine attacks on Wildberries warehouses for all the reasons CTH previously noted. Ukraine was convinced by western intelligence analysis that destroying the roughly 200 Wildberries distribution centers would cripple the Russian consumer economy. However, increased strikes did not yield the desired results. Duh.
Ukraine then added Ozon to the target list, another online retailer for everyday items similar to Amazon (even with similar name).
Ukraine began targeting Ozon warehouse and distribution centers shortly before they began more parcel and car bomb attacks against strategic Russian military officers.
It’s almost like Western intelligence do not understand how resilient Russian consumers are. Russia is considerably analog in an almost exclusively western digital world. Perhaps that’s the disconnect, but I would think with the cultural connections between both nations, Ukraine would know better.
Then again, is it really Ukraine strategizing the war?
Regardless, Vladimir Putin has now taken the restrictions away from dual use infrastructure in/around Kyiv, and for the past two days Russia has continued to launch relentless volleys of missiles and drones at Kyiv warehouses. Overall, during the two days of Russian attacks, 17 warehouse facilities, 16 private houses, three apartment buildings and 16 vehicles were damaged in Kyiv region. {source} It’s the retaliatory version of FAFO.
Western Ukraine (Kyiv region) is very ‘western’, very western. Eastern Ukraine, not so much. Suddenly the nightclubs, dance clubs and entertainment districts in/around Kyiv (Kiev) are empty.
What is now beginning to be shared on background alternative media is the scope of exodus from Ukraine (picture above left). Thousands of Ukrainians are now fleeing every day.
KYIVPOST -Russian forces struck Nova Poshta warehouse facilities in the Kyiv region early Friday, Aug. 28, then hit the same site twice more as firefighters were battling the resulting blaze, local authorities said.
The initial strike targeted warehouses in the Bilohorodka community, damaging a nearby production facility in Sviatopetrivske, according to Anton Ovsiienko, head of the Bilohorodka village council.
Nearly an hour later, while emergency crews were still fighting the fire, Russian forces launched two more strikes at the same location. Firefighters and other specialists managed to move to a safer area before the additional impacts, Ovsiienko said.
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