Ukrainian drones may hit Moscow Victory Day parade, Zelenskyy warns
15h 46m ago by lemmy.world/u/CAVOK in europe@feddit.org from tvpworld.com
Russia’s military parade is expected to be significantly scaled back this year.
Would make it more interesting to watch
A flypast of drones trailing blue and yellow smoke would be an impressive watch. Even more so if they hit something symbolic afterwards.
Destroying culturally significant buildings without military goal is both harmful to the war effort and a extremely severe war crime.
Destroying the cultural heritage such as ancient temples and churches is generally frowned upon, to put it lightly.
There are enough highly symbolic installations with military purpose in a capital like Moscow. The ministry of "defence" does have an address, so does military high command, or several intelligence services. All of them are sufficiently military targets to make hitting them no war crime at all. The parade itself consists of military, and therefore is a military target all in itself. Whether or not hitting it is a war crime, solely depends on whether the number of bystanders affected by an attack is in any way proportionate to the military effect. Air defence systems on the grounds of the Kremlin (there surely are some) are purely military targets, too.
No wonder Putin is taking a pass on attending. It would make his time and location line up publicly.
Would killing him be bad or good?
Probably bad.
The reason why I doubt that Ukraine would attack Moscow on Victory Day is that the risk of killing innocents would be high, which could (would) make Russians rally around the flag.
I do like the threat though. Putin and Russia shouldn't be confident that Ukraine won't attack, which causes a dilemma for them.
I agree that the threat is a smart move. Either Russia command responds, showing the population that everything is not going as well as they pretend. Or they do nothing, in which case they have deal with the backlash of 'Oh, why did you do nothing, they told you they would do this' if Ukraine attacks.
which causes a dilemma for them.
And pulls air defenses away from the front lines.
A power struggle within Russian command would almost certainly mess things up for the Russians on the battlefield
Only one way to find out, I guess
Was killing the Ayatollah good or bad?
Decapitation creates a power vacuum and may cause inferiors to act erratically in ways that harm all participants. Such as preventive or random strikes on foreign but not hostile nations. A invasion of e.g. the Baltics may be immediate.
An attempt could happen anyway, but Ukraine's efforts have really made it less feasible.
Everyone loves a parade.
Didn't he also say he is doing a cease fire?
On different days, apparently. I dont get it either.
Putin: "lets have a ceasefire on May 8th-9th"
Zelenskyi: "lets have one May 5th-6th"
Putin continues to bomb Ukraine on May 5th/6th.
Zelenskyi on May 8th: looks like you dont respect our ceasefires too much. Guess it's only fair if we ruin yours too then, eh? :>
I think Zelensky is proposing to start the ceasefire on May 5th. So basically he's saying that if Russia can manage not to murder Ukrainians for 3 days he will not bomb Moscow during the parade.
Yeah, thats probably the reasoning.