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Russian President Vladimir Putin himself has issued a stark warning to the Neo-Nazi junta: “[The drone attacks] are designed to prompt a reaction from Russia… they provoke mirrored actions. Well, we will see what [we can do] about it.”
Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst
May 30 saw Russian air defense systems deployed in and around Moscow repel a surprise attack by the Kiev regime. According to various sources, at least 24 UKRJET UJ-22 kamikaze drones were used in some sort of swarm attack on the Russian capital city. The attack managed to inflict largely superficial damage on several buildings in the city, although its overall impact can only be described as militarily insignificant. Still, numerous media are describing it as the first attack to hit civilian areas of Moscow. City Mayor Sergey Sobyanin also stated that multiple buildings sustained minor damage, resulting in a few minor injuries for passing civilians. Luckily, the attack caused no fatalities thanks to a swift reaction by Russian air defenses.
Although the Kiev regime officially denied any involvement, with one of its officials claiming in an interview with NBC News that “Ukraine has nothing directly to do” with the drone attacks on Moscow, it has still praised the attack, with the aforementioned official openly stating that he is “pleased to observe and predict an increase in the number of attacks”. Neo-Nazi junta frontman Volodymyr Zelensky himself claimed earlier this month that “we don’t attack Putin or Moscow” after a series of recent border area attacks and kamikaze drone strikes deeper within Russia. Obviously, such claims are laughable at best, as the evidence of the usage of Ukrainian-made and/or Western-supplied drones during the attacks is quite conclusive.
The mainstream propaganda machine is hinting that the latest attacks come as a response to the weekend strikes on Kiev by the Russian military. According to sources such as Reuters and the New York Times, Saturday and Sunday saw at least three waves of drone attacks over Kiev, with claims that it was “the largest drone attack on the city to date, coming as locals celebrated the anniversary of the Ukrainian capital’s founding”. The Neo-Nazi junta forces announced that they’ve downed most of the “kamikaze” drones, claiming that 58 of the 59 were shot down by air defenses, meaning their supposed battlefield efficiency stands at over 98%. Still, once again, zero evidence was presented to back up such claims.
However, the obvious question arises, if the Kiev regime’s forces are truly that efficient in downing Russian drones, jets and even hypersonic missiles, why is there a need for retribution to residential areas of Moscow? And even that resulted in no militarily significant gains. Russian officials themselves have indicated that “Muscovites were much more likely to get hit by an electric scooter than a drone in the city center”, although they did praise Russian air defenses for that, as the damage would have been worse and a lot more visible without them. Video evidence shows that the decision to bolster air defenses around the capital city has been completely justified. In the footage, Russian short-range SAM (surface-to-air missile) systems such as the now-legendary “Pantsir-S1” are swiftly destroying hostile drones.
However, the attack does represent a major escalation that Moscow is extremely unlikely to leave unanswered. In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin himself has issued a stark warning to the Neo-Nazi junta, stating: “[The drone attacks] are designed to prompt a reaction from Russia… they provoke mirrored actions. Well, we will see what [we can do] about it.”
Such a warning coming directly from Putin is quite rare and most likely sounds quite terrifying to the Neo-Nazi junta, as the Russian President is not well known for bluffing. And indeed, in recent days, the Russian military has destroyed several key assets of the Kiev regime forces, including another “Patriot” SAM system, as well as a large number of UK-supplied weapons. Putin’s words aimed at regular Ukrainians are obviously designed to warn them that the government currently occupying their country is filled with delusional (at best) extremists who, in their suicidal quest to “shed blood for a NATO mission“, are jeopardizing the lives of millions of regular citizens.
The potential military response from Moscow can happen in any number of ways, but if the most recent pinpoint strikes against the Neo-Nazi junta troops were to serve as an indicator of how this might play out, then it could be said that many of the forcibly conscripted Ukrainians are out of luck. Unfortunately for them, the puppet regime doesn’t seem to care about the consequences of its actions, as it’s still leading an infowar that has little to no impact on the actual situation on the ground. The only way to finally push this unfortunate bloodshed to an end is to accelerate the processes already in motion within the Kiev regime forces.
