is the purpose to exhaust ukrainian air defenses especially now the aid from the u.s. and eu is drying up somewhat, and what will happen if that occurs? yeah, i think that is one of the key purposes. we do hear rhetoric from putin that suggests retaliation in part for the attack on the landing ship of crimea and the attack on belgorod on saturday. and we re seeing continued attacks on that border region. several missiles s shot down th morning and one person killed. but yes, the scale of the attacks, it was almost 100 on tuesday and all different types as well, it does smack of an effort to try to not only wind down the numbers of missiles that ukraine has to shoot down russian attacks but also to confuse and try to sort of, you know, try to figure out where the gaps are. and obviously the timing is significant. russia is keenly aware if you
Russia s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya stated on Saturday that the strikes on the Russian city of Belgorod were a deliberate terrorist attack.