The scene last weekend in the Russian-held eastern Ukrainian town of Makiivka, where the soldiers were temporarily stationed, appears to have been a recipe for disaster.
Hundreds of Russian troops were reportedly clustered in a building close to the front line of the war, well within range of the enemy’s Western-supplied precision artillery, possibly sitting close to an ammunition store, and perhaps unwittingly helping Kyiv’s forces to zero in on them.
Emily Ferris, a Research Fellow on Russia and Eurasia at the Royal United Services Institute in London, told The Associated Press it is “very hard to verify” whether cellphone signaling and geolocation were to blame for the accurate strike. Putin said the Zircon missiles that the Admiral Gorshkov frigate was carrying were a “unique weapon,” capable of flying at nine times the speed of sound and with a range of 1,000 kilometers . Russia says the missiles can’t be intercepted.
But Ferris, the analyst, said that “there should be a bit of caution around leaning too heavily on this as a sign of Russian army’s weakness.” In the same post, the ministry said that the building struck by Ukrainian missiles was little more than 12 kilometers from the front line, within “one of the most contested areas of the conflict,” in the partially Russian-occupied Donetsk region.
Vladlen Tatarsky, a well-known military blogger, accused Russian generals of “demonstrating their own stupidity and misunderstanding of what’s going on the troops, where everyone has cellphones.”
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