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Originally Posted by BlackBellamy
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They're out of range already. They never got into range to shell Kiev city center. They were able to shell the suburbs but that's about it. Now that they've retreated it's all over for the artillery.
They can still launch missiles at it, and bomb it from planes which would be a massive waste of assets as the Ukrainian strategy is to trade civilian lives for Russian casualties and stock depletion. The Ukrainians would love nothing more than Russians targeting civilians rather their armed forces.
It's anathema to consider civilians as anything but something to be protected in the Western way of war. For the Slavs, it's just more war materiel. And the Ukrainian civilians are totally cool with that strategy it seems.
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Putin's entire propaganda is based on "we only fighting Nazi" and trying to "rescue" Ukrainian population. AKA - they do not try to target civilian facilities intentionally. Ukrainian military uses that to their advantage, because they understand - the moment Putin starts directly bombing cities- he is no longer "rescuing" anyone - propaganda falls apart, and his own country can rebel.