Firefighters and rescue workers at the scene of a Russian missile strike on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Oct. That was a departure from the typical Kremlin rhetoric that portrays Washington and London as the puppeteers behind Ukraine’s resistance.
In his speech, Putin made one notable omission: He did not mention the West as the ultimate culprit behind Saturday’s Crimean bridge explosion or other suspected Ukrainian attacks. “If attempts to carry out terrorist attacks on our territory continue, the measures taken by Russia will be tough and in their scale will correspond to the level of threats posed to the Russian Federation. “This morning, at the suggestion of the Ministry of Defense and according to the plan of the Russian General Staff, a massive strike with air, sea and land-based high-precision long-range weapons was launched against Ukrainian energy, military command and communications facilities,” Putin said. With Monday’s devastating escalation of the war effort, Putin appears to be responding, in part, to those critics, momentarily quieting the clamors of hard-liners furious with the Russian military’s humiliating setbacks on the battlefield. People injured in a Russian missile attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, on October 10, 2022. His military has come under increasingly withering criticism from the war’s supporters for not being aggressive enough in its assault on Ukraine, a chorus that reached a fever pitch after Saturday’s attack on the 12-mile bridge to the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea - a symbol of Putin’s rule. The sharp shift was a sign that domestic pressure over Russia’s flailing war effort had escalated to the point where President Vladimir Putin believed that a brutal show of force was necessary - as much for his audience at home as for Ukraine and the West.
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