Strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure are both effective and timely, and are helping troops carry out their combat missions, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The attacks are disrupting Ukraine’s ability to deliver military equipment and ammunition to its forces and to rotate personnel along the frontline, he said.
Kiev’s regime “opened Pandora’s box” when it began striking civilian targets and is now facing a response, the president said, adding that it has failed to turn the tide in its confrontation with Moscow by launching attacks on civilian facilities.
His remarks came in response to a series of recent Ukrainian attacks that caused civilian casualties and targeted critical infrastructure, residential buildings and Wildberries e-commerce logistics hubs.
“The more difficult the situation for the adversary at the front, the more brutal and barbaric attacks the Kiev regime carries out,” Putin said earlier on Saturday at the congress of the United Russia party.
Ukraine has stepped up long-range attacks on civilian infrastructure in Russia in recent weeks amid battlefield setbacks, targeting warehouses, energy facilities, residential buildings, civilian vehicles, infrastructure and resort areas. Russian officials have described the drone strikes as deliberate acts of terrorism.