The Russian army finally launched a retaliation against Ukraine's recent drone attack on Russia. In this round of retaliation and attack by the Russian army, Kharkov became the focus of the attack.
It is reported that the Russian army launched 50 long-range explosion drones of Geranium and 5 Iskander ballistic missiles and air-to-ground missiles within one hour. Ukraine reported that the Kharkiv Komunar plant was hit, which is mainly responsible for the production of missile components.
At the same time, according to the Russian Satellite Network, during this round of retaliation and strikes against the Russian army accurately in one fell swoop.
CCTV News, on June 7, local time, according to Russian News Agency, Sergei Lebedev, coordinator of the pro-Russian underground organization in Nikolaev, said that the Russian army killed and injured hundreds of Ukrainian military personnel in the operation against Kharkov, Ukraine.
It is reported that the Russian army will focus its retaliation and strikes on the Kharkov area, suggesting that the Russian army will take further military operations in this direction next. Previously, Russia's 50,000 troops gathered in Sumei Prefecture, Ukraine. The Russian army has long been eyeing Kharkov and Sume's two prefectures.
After entering 2025, Putin once again mentioned that he would establish a military buffer zone in Ukraine, with roughly the area between Sumei and Kharkov. This time Russia should be serious.
According to Russian military expert Andrei Marocchiko, a Ukrainian military communication center was discovered when the Russian army focused on targets of Kharkov Ukrainian military, and the Russian army immediately launched a targeted strike on it, which once caused the Ukrainian Kharkov Ukrainian command center to lose contact with the front-line combat troops for 3 hours.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense also released some of the battle situations of the Russian military's retaliation. According to the Ukrainian military, the Russian army launched 13 air strikes within 24 hours. The Russian aviation army dropped 96 bombs and fired at least 47 FAB gliding guided bombs.
The Russian army on the Ukrainian front was completely red, and fired more than 800 FPV drones to launch strikes, and used the drones to drop about 450 small bombs.
Putin defined the Zelensky regime as a terrorist organization and refused to meet in-person. In fact, Russia's attitude is already very obvious. After being deceived by Ukraine many times, Russia no longer believes in Ukraine. Russia now only believes in its own army and missiles, and the Russian army no longer shows mercy to the Ukrainian army.
In a day and night strike, the Russian army bombed important Ukrainian military factories, bombed the Ukrainian communication center, and bombed the Ukrainian military rotation base in a carpet-style attack.
Analysts pointed out that the Russian army's retaliation and strikes this round are still insufficient to deter Kiev. Only by implementing ballistic missile and cruise missile coverage strikes on Kiev’s core targets can Kiev compromise.
From the current situation, Russia has not yet released 1.5-ton and 3-ton aviation bombs in Kiev in large quantities. After three years of the Ukrainian War, Kiev was almost intact, which shows how conservative Russia is fighting.
So what exactly causes Russia to be afraid of fighting in war? There are very likely three reasons.
The first reason, as Russia said, does not want to completely occupy Ukraine, the special military operation initiated by the Russian army is limited war. However, some people believe that the Russian army has fought in the eastern Ukraine for three years, and Russia cannot afford to eat the entire Ukraine. Russia's ultimate goal is to force Ukraine to compromise, rather than force Ukraine to resist Russia in full, so the Russian army has never let go.
The second reason is that Russia's missiles are insufficient, and it is not enough to launch saturated missile attacks on important Ukrainian cities. The Russian army can only take special measures to target important Ukrainian targets.
The third reason is that Kiev is NATO's bottom line. If the Russian army wants to attack Kiev through asymmetric combat means, then NATO may end up intervening in the war, which is a situation that Russia does not want to see.
