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The Russians are probably attacking Zaporizhzhia trying to create political conditions to goad the Ukrainians to move the men they are gathering in that region and pull resources from other fronts. It does not make sense to target civilian population otherwise. The same pressure was felt by the English politicians in WW II when the Germans started firing the buzz bombs. Resources had to be deployed by the English to manage the problem. The goal at this stage combined with the added nuclear threat seems to be buy time until the men from the mobilisation can be deployed at scale between January and April next year. Most analysis of their failures with their established doctrine of battalion tactical groups sees to point to the lack of infantry to protect their formations opening up sucessful attacks by the Ukrainians using shoulder launched missiles in the initial phase of the war.

Russians don't do shame unfortunately. It's either nationalist fervor or complete apathetic resignation. Shame doesn't enter the equation.

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It's a war. Attacking civilians creates political pressure on the Ukrainian politicians to respond. At this stage the Russians game is buy time, regroup apply the lessons and apply the tactics properly (if they can). Ukraine (or the West) does not have unlimited resources in the field, Russian army don't want Ukrainians concentrating their resources. Why use drone attacks from Belarus and the threat of incursion, if only to tie down Ukrainian man power.

The problem is seeing Russian actions as “retaliation” for Ukrainian actions. They’re not. Russia’s actions in Ukraine are unilateral and without justification. They’re not bombing apartment blocks because their illegal bridge was hit. They’re bombing them because they’re using terrorism - in the purest sense of the word - as a state military tactic. But they’ll do that regardless of what Ukraine do.

Not only that, but it would be a net PR loss to hit a Russian city or town just because. You give Putin an easy thing to rattle the sabre over and Ukraine's moral high ground gets a shade lower.

Ukraine’s broader interests are currently certainly best served by limiting their action to their own territory and targets causing them immediate danger (such as supply lines and depots) in nearby Russian territory. But that’s really only because of the pragmatic considerations of trying to keep a varying and disparate coalition of allies on side, rather than any consideration for Putin’s feelings.

Ah, that was satisfying, taking however long it took you to type that reply out of your day.

I wouldnt bet on that. One needs a shame installed in first place to carry for generations. Russians are not known for shame.

Their logistics is atrocious considering they are right next door. Lessons from the front and Ukrainians tactics will be taught to the mobilised men, important issues like how to stay alive and do the maximum damage. They will revert to the proper application of their tactics with new adaptations. Over the next few months the Russians will keep degrading Ukrainian civil infrastructure, their own heartland is not impacted. The equipment only needs to be good enough. Their issue will be the quality of the ammunition will eventually get down to the stuff that does not work or explodes when you handle it, so there is an incentive to bring this to a halt before next Autumn.

There are also the issues of how the Winter plays out in the United States (November elections, lame duck president, domestic leftist violence, lack of support for the war, the war hawks in the Republican party have been stymied, their voters are not interested) and Europe (a collapse of German industry due to the pursuit of Green energy policies over he last two decades, bought forward by the shutdown of Russian energy supplies), coupled with financial instability across the EU and other elections.

Whataboutery writ large-

Journalist Luke Harding described Russian whataboutism as "practically a national ideology".[21] Writing for Bloomberg News, Leonid Bershidsky called whataboutism a "Russian tradition",[22] while The New Yorker described the technique as "a strategy of false moral equivalences".[23] Julia Ioffe called whataboutism a "sacred Russian tactic",[24][25] and compared it to accusing the pot of calling the kettle black.[26]

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The right track look to be buckled.

They must have run the train on the left one.

Going frame by frame one sees the start or the explosion, it's here in this screen grab I took ,the white haze you see on screen, that's a microsecond into the explosion and as you see all the trucks look fine.

This is what I was saying earlier today there's a definite flash comes across from the rail side and the trucks looks pretty much intact as the explosion engulfs the bridge, where if a bomb exploded inside the truck it would be torn to piece immediately as the explosion went off