Nice psy-op. Now Putin will have to order everyone to be there, and they’ll all be watching the skies instead of his dumb parade.
I hope they drone the shit out of the parade
nah, drone more oil refineries while all the air defense is busy with the parade
War against a stronger enemy is an exercise in allotting your military resources where they’re most effective.
Officials are easier to replace than infrastructure, unless you manage to whittle the enemy supply of manpower, experience and training capabilities down so far that candidates are similarly scarce.
On the other hand, the optics of being unable to protect the literal military parade… Might change some Russians’ minds about how good and strong of a leader Putin is.
Either one works, really.
Then drop something aimed at the will of the people, not the military power. Letters from captured Russian troops to their loved ones, candy for the children, propaganda…
Getting it all past their air defense sends a message to those who care about military strength. The letters may show that you’re treating prisoners well (even if they don’t all make it to their recipients). The candy… well, happy children are probably the most benevolent kind of psychological warfare.
Collateral civilian damage will be used to galvanise resistance. Hence, violent strikes may end up backfiring (but don’t have to - nothing in war is ever quite certain).
So far russians hitting our civilian targets didn’t do them much good. I can’t imagine the reverse will help us.
Why not both?
Resources
Drones filled with glitter. Pink glitter. Dump it all over the parades.
hey let’s not add more micro plastics to the environment please. Just use old fashioned munitions like a normal army.
Biodegradable glitter made from cellulose exists.
You are concerned aboutplastics when refineries are on fire?
I am not happy for the environment but I see it as a justificable action by Ukraine.
The world is drowning in plastic, like 10 years ago 90% of all plastic ever produced had been made in the preceding 10 years, and massive new plastic production has come online since then. Like this is a big problem it’s not going away either. Recycling is worse than landfilling, they have Untold innumerable additives that are toxic and in recycling they get released into the air, and the Recycled product is worthless as well, they do it to say they did it because the pr campaign to foist the blame on to Consumers from the 90s or whenever it started.
Im not proplastic… it just not worth raising on a hypothetical relating to an active invasion and war for survival.
All available air defenders are in Moscow, and St. Petersburg is sitting there begging to get leveled.
Kyiv will for sure be present at the parade with drones, but i wouldn’t be surprised if they sent chocolate and usb-sticks with information what is really happening at the front instead of explosives.
Bombing civilians has historically galvanised resistance rather than undermining the enemy. The supply deliveries by air and candy drops during the Berlin Blockade did way more for sympathy and morale. Give them chocolate and information and you’ll achieve more than by confirming you’re the cruel enemy they’ve been told you are.
I hope they sabotage every single engine so that they break down in the middle of the parade.
Russia’s annual Victory Day parade will be held on 9 May without military hardware for the first time in almost two decades because of fears of a long-range attack by Ukrainian drones.
Note they didn’t say anything about soldiers marching. Because those are cheaper to replace than machines.
