The Kremlin provided diplomatic cover to the Assad regime after Damascus used chemical weapons against its own citizens. Furthermore, Russia targeted hospitals and other critical infrastructure, including those whose coordinates were shared with the Russian command by the UN, to undermine the morale of rebel forces and force them to disperse.
Russia is trying to do the same in Ukraine today, acting with special brutality when its war is not going to plan. The Russian army is attacking civilian areas to disperse the resources of the Ukrainian forces currently concentrated along the front. Moscow knows that Ukraine needs additional air defense systems to defend its cities and skies, and it is exploiting this weakness with devastating consequences.
Despite all the terrible losses, Kyiv’s Western allies are still preventing the Ukrainian armed forces from launching long-range strikes against Russian military infrastructure, and this is a mistake. All signed security treaties and such support are worthless without permission to counter-attack deep inside Russian territory. Otherwise, strikes like today's will continue without serious consequences for the Russian army infrastructure and bases.
Attacks on hospitals and other infrastructure will not stop even if there are negotiations. The purpose of the invasion of Ukraine was to seize, occupy, and exploit territory that Russia believes is its own, not to sit around a table talking.
Attacks like the one on the children's hospital in Kyiv and the medical center in Dnipro are just part of this strategy and should remind Ukraine's allies – some of whom have wavered – that Kyiv urgently needs military support and guarantees that it will be able to defend its skies. Reality is not just knocking at the door – it is blowing up cities.
Make No Mistake: Destroying Hospitals Is Part of the Kremlin’s Strategy - The Moscow Times
Opinion | The news from Kyiv on July 8 about another attack on Ukrainian cities, with missiles hitting medical infrastructure – including Ukraine's largest children's hospital – is shocking.
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Täytyy toivoa, että sitä tukea löytyisi suuremmissa määrin sillä eihän nämä iskut siviilikohteisiin ole vahinkoja tai tule loppumaan. Mutta kovasti on epäilyksiä, että jää edelleen puheentasolle ja Venäjä saa ihan rauhassa jatkaa öykkäröintiään Ukrainan ollessa "nyrkkeilysäkkinä". Eihän edes Orbanin sooloiluun saada mitään aikaan, vaikka Unkari on EU- sekä NATO-maa, siitä huolimatta että melkein kaikki EU-valtiot ovat osoittaneet tyytymättömyyttä Orbanin toimintaan. Edelleen mm. nuissa risteilyohjuksissa on länsimaissa tehtyjä osia, eihän naapuri itse sellaisiin ole panostanut kun on pitänyt ostaa jahteja ja muita.
Russia’s ability to keep buying the Western-designed parts on the open market and importing them via China underscores Moscow’s success at evading wartime sanctions.
Kh-101 production rose eightfold from 56 in 2021 to 420 last year, according to a report last month by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a British defense think tank.
A 2022 RUSI report said the Kh-101 had 31 foreign components with parts manufactured by companies including U.S.-based Intel Corporation and AMD-owned Xilinx.
Western Parts Power Russian Missile That Hit Kyiv Children’s Hospital – FT - The Moscow Times
Western-designed components are used in the type of Russian missile that struck a Kyiv children’s hospital this week, the Financial Times reported Wednesday, citing experts and Ukrainian officials.
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