Or the social norm of the wealthier class is to steal from the poorer/weaker class. They are constantly rewarded by their peers for displaying this behavior. Children are inherently poorer and weaker than they are.

I am guessing that it’s to stop them from using video conferences to communicate. This forces them them have to get together in person more often.

When Ukraine launches a drone strike, Russia stops airline traffic. Airplanes are also in poor condition with many flights canceled due to santions. Fuel shortages are also ongoing and constant with Ukraines refinery hits.

Taking out video conferences as a tool, increase the cost and decreases the speed that the officials can coordinate their efforts.

I guess his lips didn’t stay zipped like they were supposed too.

They had a massive segment of military goods for sale. Everything from drone supplies to body armor. So they are actively engaged in supporting the Russians invasion.

These are also massive warehouse hubs for the distribution of all sorts of goods. Like a large Amazon warehouse. Destroying them is an absolutely massive hit to the Russian economy with minimal risk of civilian casualties.

Its more a lag of transporting them to the front. Most of them are moved by ships and it takes a couple of weeks to resupply them when they are halfway across the world.

The build rate of u.s. missles are in the months or even years long timespan.

A smaller fire before the main event. It builds drama for the audience.

Today every Russian business who has goods in the wildberries warehouse is begging for people to buy their product. You know a little fire sale before the fire.

Hit them again.

That one doesn’t need a return visit from the drone fairy.

How much you want to bet that Wildberries had the lowest fire control standards?

A few companies will avoid testing in Ukraine because they know they will fail. There already is a bunch of systems that already haven’t survived the conditions.

Examples-

Excalibur m982 guided artillery shell. Russia got so good at jamming them that less than 1 in 9 hit the target. At almost $100k per shell they are a massive waste of money.

Anduril Industries and Skudio haabe failed massively with their drones in Ukraine.

https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/anduril-s-autonomous-weapons-fail-in-tests-ukraine-combat

https://www.sofx.com/us-drones-underperform-in-ukraine-skydio-and-others-face-setbacks/

If these people are buying the goods internationally they usually have to pay for them before they are shipped. For most businesses that means taking out a short term loan to cover the purchase. It’s a standard practice even in established businesses.

Lenders require insurance against the destruction of the goods. Insurance companies like to carve out exemptions in what they cover to minimize their losses. Acts of war are almost universally exempted unless the customer pays a much higher premium.

I expect to see online retailers in Russia ban the sale of military goods on the next few weeks. Insurance companies and lenders are going to increase the insurance premiums and refuse loans to operations that sell them.

You’d think a warehouse with billions in merchandise would have a fire suppression system. Guess not.

Just a small fire that will be easily put out when it runs out of fuel…

Don’t speak Russian either but their response to the fuel rationing is “Why is this happen to me? Poor me…boohoo…” I expect the response to having all their shit burn up is the same.

The Sea of Azov is the shallowest sea in the world. In fact it’s deepest part is only 14m. The Don River empties into the Azov sea. The Volga-Don canal connects the Volga and the Caspian sea with the sea of Azov. The maximum ship size across the canal is 141m with a draft of 3.5m. The Caspian sea region has a ton of oil production.

Russia has a fleet of smaller tankers to move oil, grain etc out of the region. These are 140m long and around 7000 metric tons with a draft of 3.5m.

These are about 1/2 the size as the smallest general purpose tanker in use internationally. These small tankers travel from the Don River across the Azov Sea. They then transfer their loads into larger tankers in the black sea or holding tanks in the area.

Because of their relatively small size Russia has built a ton of them. Look at Rostov-on-Don on a satellite view. They are packed into the Don River.

SEAD for these relatively large fragile slow moving planes is pretty difficult. The U.S lost over 400 in similar role to ground fire in Vietnam. Mostly downed by direct fire 0.50cal machine guns or small arms from what I can find.

That being said:

These are a very cheap answer to long range highly mobile heavy artillery or front-line dug in positions with very low risk to Ukraines operators.

Clever use of an inexpensive small civilian aircraft. The list price for a brand new one is 20-25K euros. Add in probably 10-15K for the remotes. Gives Ukraine a reusable heavy precision bomber with a few hundred km range for less than 40K. Less than the cost of most one-way medium-long range attack drones.

http://www.skyranger.eu/prices.html

They are also very light and small. The wings can be folded back so they can be stored/transported easily. A regular passenger car can tow them on a small trailer. They can take off and land in less than 300m so they can be used about anywhere.

They are highly susceptible to gound fire, manpads, any type of AA, and some attack drones. However given their cost, a plane making 1-2 successful attacks before being shot down more than justifies their cost.

Looks like gasoline storage tanks to me.

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Russia had an absolute massive stockpile of air defense assets at the beginning of the war. Ukraine has steadily worked at degrading these assets over time. The more they destroyed the easier it was to destroy the next asset.

At the same time Ukraine has massively increased it’s drone capabilities and numbers at every range. So the remaining Russian air defense has to work harder with less numbers against more drones.

The longer ranges of Ukraines drones also means that Russia has to defend more area with less equipment. Russia is forced to prioritize assets to protect.

Today Moscow has a robust air defense system but whole sections of the front have close to zero. Ukraine has total freedom to hit any target they can find in many regions.

Russia is seeking to figure out a cheap effective way to defend their airspace. At the same time Ukraine is relentlessly damaging the infrastructure Russia needs to build the new anti-air capabilities.

"Ukraine is too far away and weak for them to fly a drone thousands of km to bomb them. So the only explanation is Russian traitors. "

The downside of extensive propaganda claiming that Ukraine is weak and about to collapse.