Experts do not believe that strikes on Ukraine's energy system will break the will of Ukrainians.
Using expensive high-precision missiles against civilian infrastructure instead of military facilities is at least illogical , especially in the situation of Russia, which is under sanctions. And even strikes on the Ukrainian energy system will not break Ukrainians. Such conclusions were reached by experts of the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in a report dated October 10.
The report said Russia simply wasted its missiles on non-military targets, including a playground, a park, the German consulate and a business center.
“Russian attacks on October 10 wasted some of Russia's dwindling high-precision weapons against civilians goals, as opposed to objects of military significance. The Ministry of Defense of Russia stated that the Russian forces successfully carried out a mission of strikes against Ukrainian military command centers, communication infrastructure and energy systems in Ukraine,” the ISW report says.
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An even greater proportion of missiles and drones, notes ISW, were shot down by Ukrainian air defense. And even those missiles that hit Ukraine's infrastructure facilities will not change the course of the war and, on the contrary, may prevent Russia from stopping the advance of the Ukrainian army.
“Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy grid are unlikely to break Ukraine's will to fight, but Russia's use of its limited supply of precision weapons in this role may deprive Putin of the ability to interrupt ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensives in the Kherson and Luhansk regions,” the report says.
< p>They noted that Putin allegedly made this strike in response to a “terrorist act” on the Kerch Bridge. Although the Ukrainian side did not take responsibility for blowing up the bridge, the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine (GUR) reported that Putin was planning this attack even before the explosion on the Kerch bridge. If this is true, then this may indicate that Putin planned this attack in order to divert the failures of the Russian army in the Kharkiv region, according to ISW experts.
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Related videoRecall that the Washington Post article states that the missile attack on October 10 intensified the calls of the Ukrainian government to the allies to provide more advanced air defense systems and longer-range weapons and increased the pressure on them.
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