According to the Main Intelligence Directorate, Putin has ordered Russian troops to escalate drone attacks on filling stations, freight and passenger transport, civilian vehicles, and to intensify strikes on civilian infrastructure facilities.
Ivan Arefiev writes about this exclusively for the Prompolitinform portal.
The goal is clear – to destroy as much as possible the lives of people in Ukraine’s border and front-line territories. To destroy not military headquarters, but the things that ordinary people use every day.
The targets of the russian army’s attacks have included gas stations, residential buildings, transport, energy facilities, postal terminals, and port infrastructure. Russia is once again trying to break Ukraine through fear. But terror is not a demonstration of strength. It is a demonstration of powerlessness.
And here a simple question arises: why now?
Because spring and summer have once again shown the main problem of the Kremlin dictator: Ukraine has not been broken.
While Russian propaganda paints yet another “victories,” war is increasingly coming to the places from which it was launched into Ukraine. Ukrainian defense forces are striking military facilities, warehouses, logistics, Russian defense industry enterprises, oil depots, air defense systems, and other elements of the aggressor’s war machine.
And what does Putin do in response?
When he cannot effectively respond to the Ukrainian military – he strikes civilians.
At residential buildings.
At cars.
At buses.
At gas stations.
At energy facilities and thermal power plants.
At Nova Poshta terminals.
At the port and logistics infrastructure of Odesa and the Odesa region.
At everything that ensures normal life for millions of Ukrainians.
This is not a demonstration of strength. This is a demonstration of powerlessness, multiplied by terror.
Putin understands perfectly well that every destroyed element of Russian military logistics, every hit defense industry facility, every oil depot and warehouse – is a blow to Russia’s ability to continue the war.
But instead of stopping the aggression, the Kremlin once again chooses its usual tactic: to intimidate the civilian population.
You can’t win against Ukraine on the battlefield – then you must deprive Ukrainians of electricity.
You can’t break the Defense Forces – then you must leave people without heat.
You can’t stop Ukrainian strikes on the war machine – then strike ports, postal services, gas stations, and civilian vehicles.
That is the entire “strategy” of the so-called second army of the world.
But there is one problem that the Kremlin has failed to understand over the years of the full-scale war.
Terror will not break Ukraine.
Every strike on a Ukrainian city only strengthens our determination to ensure that the war returns to the places from which the missiles and drones are launched.
Ukraine is fighting for the right to live. Russia is fighting for the right to kill. And that is the fundamental difference between us.
So let the Kremlin remember well: behind every attack on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, there must be an even greater price for the Russian military machine.
Not for Russian grandmothers and not for residential buildings.
But for the facilities that allow Putin’s army to wage this war.
Ukrainians have learned to withstand the blow. And Ukraine’s Defense Forces have learned to respond forcefully with a blow in return. And it appears that the latter is what worries the inhabitants of the Kremlin the most today.
Author: Ivan Arefiev
Collage: Andriy Atlantov
