by Chris Black
To clear things up, yeah, I understand: the Ukraine and Russia are at war, i.e. it is technically within the rights of the Ukrainians to attack Russia.
However, basically every PR move the Ukrainian army does is to attack civilians or civilian infrastructure, because the war is already lost.
And that’s the definition of terrorism.
They are not targeting military targets, and they are not even really pretending to do so.
They are terrorizing civilians in an attempt (apparently) to get the Russian people to turn against the war.
It’s not working at all, but that is apparently the thinking.
There are no military targets in Moscow. Unlike the Ukrainians, Russians do not put military installations in major urban centers.
RT:
The attempted Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow early Monday morning, which damaged several non-residential buildings, is “an act of international terrorism,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.
The spokeswoman condemned the attack on Monday morning while speaking to RTVI TV. Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said Ukraine attempted to stage “a terrorist attack” against Moscow using two drones, which were suppressed by electronic warfare systems.
TASS reported that several UAV fragments were found in Komsomolsky Prospekt in the center of the city, not far from the Defense Ministry HQ. Another UAV crashed into a business center in the southern part of the capital, smashing windows, the agency added. The city authorities said that traffic in both areas was temporarily halted but that there were no reports of casualties or serious damage.
Kiev applauded the raid, with Mikhail Fedorov, Ukraine’s minister for digital transformation, promising that “there will be more” of these incidents.