Ukraine war: Why Russia’s infrastructure strikes strategy isn’t working
9, 3, 2023
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While there has been some targeting of power facilities in recent weeks, this has been the longest gap since the attacks began in early October.
A much-anticipated wave of strikes to mark the first anniversary of Russia's full scale invasion on 24 February failed to materialise - though this probably said more about media expectations than Russia's actual strategy.
But the increasingly sporadic nature of Russia's infrastructure attacks is notable.
Western officials believe this indicates a shortage of the kind of precision-guided weaponry - especially missiles - needed to carry out such attacks with any measure of effectiveness.
"It takes them that long to get a number of precision weapons together before they can mount a packaged event strike," was how one official put it earlier this week...
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