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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/31/russian-missiles-strike-zelensky-home-town-ukraine/

Russia fired a barrage of missiles at Volodymyr Zelensky’s home
town on Monday, the day after the Ukrainian president warned
Moscow of “inevitable” attacks on its citizens.

At least five people, including a young girl, were killed in
Kryvyi Rih, which has largely been spared Russian bombardment,
in an apparent tit-for-tat strike.

On Sunday, Mr Zelensky said attacks on Russian soil were an
“inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process” in the war.
He was speaking after drones smashed into skyscrapers in
a Moscow business district earlier that day.

Oleksander Vilkuk, the mayor of Kryvyi Rih, said two Russian
ballistic missiles hit the city, crashing into a vocational
school and a high-rise residential building.

. . .

There has been some debate over whether Ukraine actually
targeting Moscow - even in these "small" ways - is a good
or bad thing.

In THEORY it makes Russians more "aware" there's an actual
war going on next door.

HOWEVER ... the normal psychological reaction to such
attacks is the WILL TO COUNTER-ATTACK in even greater
force. Osama bin-Laden used this psychology against
the USA with the 911 attacks - INTENDED to draw us into
a very long, expensive, conflict that would ultimately
yield little.

I think Zel made his point ... now it's time to concentrate
on The Front, not the back 40.

Of note today, Medvedev (yes, he's still around) said
that if there was an invasion threat on Russia proper
his govt WOULD use nukes. Probably would. However the
big big question is WHAT, these days, does Russia
consider to be Russia ? Crimea ? That strip of
Ukraine ? It's important.

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