Igor Gielow
SAO PAULO, SP (FOLHAPRESS) – Began this Friday (6) the early retaliation for what he called “Ukraine terrorist attacks”: actions against Russian raillines and the bold operation against Kremlin’s strategic bombing bases.
452 drones and missiles were employed in this morning’s air strike, which was focused on the capital, Kiev, where at least three people died. Throughout the country, according to President Volodimir Zelenski, 49 civilians were injured.
It was the second largest air strike of the war by the Russians, after the use of 472 missiles and drones last Sunday (1st). Ukraine, in turn, has maintained the aggressive posture of recent weeks and launched long -distance drones that reached two air bases used by bombers again.
Explosions were recorded in Diaghilev, near Moscow, and in the strategic Engels-2, in the region of Saratov-this headquarters of the most powerful Russian nuclear bombers, the TU-160, and where there is an atomic warheads deposit. Fuel tanks caught fire, generating a large fire.
The action against Kiev and city like Lutz, Ternopil and Tchernihiv were brutal. In the capital, some of the most intense columns of fire and smoke were seen this morning, and the subway stations were crowded with residents looking for shelter.
The transportation system, by the way, was interrupted because a line was hit by a drone or wreckage. The Ukrainians said they had knocked down 368 drones and 38 missiles, including 6 Iskander-M ballistic.
According to Folha de S.Paulo heard from two military observers in Moscow, there is also the expectation that Russian revenge continues. The biggest question is about the eventual use of the new Orechnik missile, which Putin employed only once in the war. The weapon has multiple warheads and was created for nuclear conflicts.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov confirmed that the action was retaliatory. Over the weekend, the Ukrainians destroyed a rail bridge, causing the derailment of a train that killed seven people.
On Sunday, Kiev made military history by launching 117 drones that were hidden in the load of trucks taken to five air bases. In two of them, they were able to reach precious strategic bombers, perhaps destroying ten aircraft -a 10% of the fleet of this type of Putin plane.
The action enraged the Russian, which had announced retaliation in a call with American Donald Trump, who only communicated it in a post on Wednesday (4). On Thursday (5), the Republican still criticized the rivals, saying that both seem “children fighting” -this in the mid -style change in the fifth grade with former ally Elon Musk.
Peskov, who measures words not to lose Trump’s goodwill with Russia, who changed the dynamics of war and opened quite difficult negotiations with Kiev, commented on Friday the sentence, saying that the conflict is existential to Russia, not a joke.
The current phase of war is one of the most violent so far, in particular in the air. The Ukrainians attacked to the symbolic Bridge of Crimea, something rare. On the ground, the Russians follow with advantage, and take advantage of the lack of labor of the Ukrainians, who this week began to discuss men over 60 for the conflict.
This Friday, the Ukrainian monitoring site Deepstate, a reference on boundaries of the conflict, pointed out that the Russians are advancing in a new front in the south-central of the country, towards the region of Dnipropetrovsk.
She has been in a precarious position since the beginning of the year, but now the Russian forces are 560 meters from her border. Rich in strategic minerals, the area had not yet been invaded in the war.
The advance also continues in Sumi, in the north, and on the front line in Donetsk, where another village fell on Thursday. In the conditions presented in writing by Putin to end the war, neither disappeared nor Dnipropetrovsk are required, raising doubt about Moscow’s intentions.
