On the fifth day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one of many unanswered questions is why Russia has launched a military campaign at huge cost with maximalist objectives, and then declined to use the vast majority of its fixed wing combat aircraft.
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Here is a response to this article, listing some possible reasons
Saw a thread speculating along those lines https://twitter.com/NotWoofers/status/1499513760922406917 holding back to prove they can do it with ground forces, trying to minimize civilian casualties, or maybe sending in the junk first to flush out where defenses are
Yeah, I don’t think that’s the reason…
Idk seems like they were mostly sticking to military targets… they can certainly get more indiscriminate and probably will as it drags on
Have you even seen the news the past few days? They clearly don’t care for the civilians at all. They targeted entire cities with their artillery…
Which city specifically? Is there video evidence? I have seen plenty of videos of Russian troops, and they are completely ignoring civilians. You can see for yourself, on telegram search “intel slava z”. Also there is lots of evidence of Ukranian military setting up artillery next to schools, or hiding in civilian buildings. Clearly to provoke these images of Russian attacks on civilian targets. By the way, Russia is giving out food at this point, Ukrainians are looting and shooting each other.
So you ask for video evidence but don’t provide any yourself? Anyway, here it is: https://reddit.artemislena.eu/r/ThatsInsane/comments/t3elwo/shelling_of_kharkiv_by_russian_forces_280222/
So there are some explosions near or in a city. Thats no surprise, we are talking about a warzone after all. Besides, there is no indication who fired, or what was hit.
Here are some interesting pictures:
https://t.me/intelslava/21309
https://t.me/intelslava/20837
https://t.me/intelslava/20939
https://nitter.net/RealPepeEscobar/status/1500143734054436865#m
“Decisive air battle”, what a joker. Most Ukrainian planes, airports and air defenses were destroyed by standoff weapons in the first hours of the war. Russia has air superiority since multiple days now. Of couse thats ignoring the ghost of kiev, who shoots down a dozen Russian planes every day lmao.
It suggests to me, given certain other things I’ve been hearing, that perhaps there is not a unified resolve among the various heads of the armed forces to conduct this…‘exercise’, that perhaps the head of the Russian Air Force is not entirely on board, as it were.
If Russia had no reliable air force, they would have been attacked long ago by NATO (nuclear armed terrorist organization). Fact is that Russia has the most advanced military planes in the world, and unlike F-35 they are actually combat ready and cost efficient.