The Iskander is hypersonic (Mach 6 to 7) has a range of 500Km The Kinzhal, in the news today, is even more hypersonic (Mach 10 to 12) and has range of 2000Km If you look at the location of Delyatyn on google maps, which is the location the Kinzhals attacked, it is a fairly distant location so out of the range of the Iskander
Did he say it has just been bought by China I hear ya but the ruskies don't exactly have a fine tuning knob on their shelling and bombing. That steel mill in Mariupol that they just destroyed was one of the largest in Europe and a real asset to the economy. I am pretty sure that Putin would have liked to keep that but twas not meant to be. Scorched earth goal comes first, or at least that is where he has ended out. This is one of the areas where Putin is different from Xi, I think. China has always wanted Hong Kong and Taiwan back and they will achieve those goals. Hong Kong is a done deal now of course. But Xi is not interested in a pile of rubble. He wants the working societies and is willing to play a longer game. Xi might even play a role in trying to preserve Odessa, after all he knows that Russia is his oyster now. Xi looks at Ukraine-Russia and all of that in terms of segments of his belt-road initiative and he sees Odessa and steel mills in Mariupol through that lens. Putin is too stupid to think that way. He just wants to swing his dick and piss on the bushes in that area to mark his territory. Not to digress too much, but George Soros has invested bigtime and financed industry bigtime in that area - including the steel mills- so he will be pissed to see that go.
You will have noticed by now, the captain (really was a corporal) is not especially perceptive. He actually thinks there should be a picture with the hundreds in a day, across a large country, in one photo. I think he inhaled a lot of heavy metals stripping old factories. Odd though he has a reasonable taste in movies.
So Putin has lost this war. His tanks and trucks failed. He's pissed and he's mad. So what's next? Is it endless random cruse missile strikes launched from Russia. That won't work either but it is something Putin can do while he stalls on admitting defeat.
Even those are limited. Recently had to deliver more of those (run out/expensive stuff), maybe will bring more with those 4 ships that recently passed next to Japan, or move into usuall artilery, yet you need at least 25 km of close range & with Ukrainians counter-attacking (plus new drones) & sanctions (hopefully) creating this burden, - his options are getting lesser/tighter & few.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...inian-drones-pound-Putins-helpless-tanks.html Elon Musk's satellites help Zelensky dominate the skies: US billionaire's internet system is allowing Ukrainian drones to pound Putin's helpless tanks
NUMBER FIVE. I THINK YOU ARE TODAY'S BINGO WINNER!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Russian general killed after Ukrainian forces destroy command post in Kherson https://nypost.com/2022/03/19/russian-general-killed-after-ukrainian-forces-destroy-command-post/
https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-mor...6K2v7iknokZOiSkSzc6F22-5uWhbOXAwZhlId3wXLW_Uw There's no room in the morgue at Mazyr. It's filled with the bodies of Russian soldiers....