Russia's "Military" Targets in Kyiv Look Suspiciously Like Apartment Blocks
Another day, another massive Russian airstrike on Ukraine’s capital, proving once again that some militaries can’t tell the difference between a high-value defense asset and a civilian living room.
Russia launched a massive 12-hour barrage on Kyiv, sending dozens of drones and high-speed ballistic missiles raining down. While air defenses managed to knock out almost everything else, those ultra-fast ballistic missiles are a different beast. They slipped right through, hitting about 25 different locations across the city.
The official line from the Russian Ministry of Defense is that they were targeting "military-industrial facilities and energy sites." But unless those military sites come equipped with balconies, laundry lines, and family kitchens, the math isn't mathing. Rescuers are still pulling survivors from the rubble of heavily targeted residential buildings, with the death toll rising to 30.
Ukraine is now frantically calling on allies to dig into their current stockpiles and hand over more Patriot air defense systems. Apparently, waiting for future contracts to clear doesn't quite work when missiles are traveling faster than the speed of sound today.
It turns out telling a country to "hold on" while their apartment buildings are being vaporized is a tough sell.
Source: UPI
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