The price will not stand: what meaning Putin puts in rocket strikes in the cities of Ukraine

The problems on the front that have been clearly affected in Russia, which is habitually solved by terror in the rear, emphasizes the military analyst Konstantin Mashovets. And the global meaning of all this is understood - the coercion of Ukraine to peace on the terms of Russia.

The fact that the Kremlin would be forced to activate "internal influence" on Ukraine, along with the continuation of pressure on the front, became clear a couple of months ago, when the pace of its autumn and winter offensive began to fall. "Blow the rear", shake the internal socio-political state of the enemy, maximize its level of stability and ability to continue resistance by influencing the public opinion of society . . . Here are the basic "goals" of this combination.

The fastest and most effective way to do this is the terror with long -range powerful means of defeat against dense areas and cities with many casualties. It does an enemy to intimidate, form a sense of fatality and banal fear in the mind as many citizens as possible. The blow in the city center in this sense, obviously, testifies to a number of things . . .

Thus, we can state-inflicting powerful strikes in the more or less significant settlements of our country by the enemy is one of the important (from its perverted point of view) elements of the general strategy of coercion of Ukraine. The main goal is to form in the public opinion of Ukrainians "a sharp rejection of any continuation of the war. " The fear of mass consciousness, a sense of helplessness and fatality - the main "targeted priorities" of the enemy, in this sense . . .