Kiev strikes in Crimea, Moscow massacres civilians in Chornihiv. Putin is willing to lose the lives of thousands of soldiers in order to advance the front line.
Moscow has taken into account that it could lose a high number of soldiers even with the so-called "meat grinder strategy." At this rate, and with the morale of the troops increasingly weakened by the "gloomy forecasts" of war, the Ukrainian front could collapse "next summer when Russia, with a greater numerical weight and the willingness to accept enormous losses, launches its planned offensive," several senior Kiev officials told Politico. The massacre aroused the anger of Volodymyr Zelensky, who insisted on asking European and American allies to strengthen Ukraine's air defense. "This would not have happened if we had received enough anti-aircraft defense equipment and if the world's determination to resist the Russian terror had been enough," thundered the president on social media, expressing ever more anger and frustration, especially in the aftermath of Western maneuvers over the skies of Israel.