Russia has tried a new mortal toy in Járkov. This time it is not a missile or a guided bomb. What the Ukrainian city has flown is an armed RPG -headed DRON. And, according to local authorities, it is the first time that it is used in the front. The message is clear: Moscow not only wants to punish, it also looks for where it hurts more.
Seven impacts, eleven injured (among them a minor) and a threat that raises the pressure on the northeast of the country. Igor Teréjov, mayor of the city, has confirmed that, between May 19 and 25, Russia has intensified attacks against civil objectives using a new tactic: first -person view drones equipped with explosive loads from Lanzagranadas RPG. “It is a new, even more insidious threat, which shows an attempt to find ‘vulnerable points’ in the defense of the city,” he said in statements collected by .
The use of these drones represents a change in strategy. Until now they were known for their speed, low cost and effectiveness in short -range objectives. But with explosive antiblying heads, the equation changes: they have the capacity to cross defenses, penetrate structures and cause lethal damage with surgical precision.
The attacks have not left dead, but scenes of destruction that are already repeated frequently: Revvenient private houses, office buildings turned into debris, a shattered printing press. “A 14 -year -old teenager suffered a cranioesephalic trauma. Fortunately, there were no deaths,” said Teréjov. What does not change is the pattern: civil infrastructure remains the favorite white.
The “Security Zone” bunning
All this happens while the Kremlin takes up one of its favorite mantras: the creation of a “security zone” on the border with Ukraine. On May 22, Vladimir Putin insisted that his army has begun to execute a plan to establish a protection strip, which is nothing other than a de facto occupation, in the bordering Russian regions with the Ukrainian provinces of Sumi, Chernígiv and Járkov. According to him, the troops are already getting to work.
But from kyiv that speech are not swallowed. “A year ago he tried and did not come out. Now he simply shows that he does not want to cease fire,” said Andrí Kovalénko, head of the Center for the fight against misinformation of the National Security Council. Other senior positions, such as Román Kostenko, secretary of the National Security Committee, have already pointed out that Russia “has no enough strength” to establish a buffer zone of 20 kilometers along the entire border line. The message is clear: there is more propaganda than logistics.
The objective, in any case, has not changed. Analysts agree that Moscow seeks to destabilize and keep under pressure in key areas such as Járkov and Sumi, without the need to occupy them directly. “The Russians are not going to take Járkov or Sumi in the short term,” said military expert Serguéi recordski on Radio NV. What they can do, and are doing, is to punish daily, try new weapons and measure the Ukrainian response.
