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
Activists from the Cyber Resistance movement have obtained a letter verifying that 74 Russian sailors were killed and 27 wounded on the Novocherkassk, the Russian landing ship that Ukrainian forces destroyed on 26 December.
Ukraine's missile strike on the Russian landing ship Novocherkassk on Dec. 26 "completely destroyed" the vessel, the U.K. Defense Ministry said in its intelligence update on Dec. 28.
In almost two years of full-scale war in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have eliminated three large landing ships of the aggressor country Russia, now including the Novocherkassk , and several landing boats. According to the Commander of the Ukrainian Navy, Vice Admiral Oleksiy Neizhpapa, this means their amphibious capability has been cut in half. He stated this in an interview with the Voice of America on December 26th.