Evgeny Poddubny, a struggle correspondent for the state RT outlet, stated that no person within the Ukrainian management appeared to worry Russia anymore.
“The enemy has stopped being afraid, and this circumstance must be corrected promptly,” he wrote in RT’s Telegram channel. “Commanders of formations, heads of intelligence companies, politicians of the Kyiv legal regime sleep peacefully, get up with no headache and in a very good temper, with no sense of inevitability of punishment for crimes dedicated.”
Aleksandr Kots, a struggle correspondent for the Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, wrote on Telegram that the bridge assault boded unwell for Moscow’s already troubled efforts to carry onto territory within the Kherson area of southern Ukraine, and almost definitely foreshadowed a future assault on Crimea itself.
He described the “consistency” that Ukraine was displaying within the struggle as “enviable” and known as for Russia to “hammer Ukraine into the 18th century, with out meaningless reflection on how this may have an effect on the civilian inhabitants.”
The potential for reprisal assaults darkened the celebratory ambiance in Ukraine within the rapid aftermath of the assault on the Kerch Strait Bridge. In Kyiv on Solarday, these going about their errands mirrored on the unease they now felt about what would possibly occur subsequent.
“Everyone seems to be anxious, I feel,” stated Volodymyr Stelmakh, 50.
The assault, he stated, has solely raised the alarm for Ukrainians, notably these in Russian-occupied areas, that one thing worse may come.
“I don’t assume it’ll occur immediately,” stated Veacheslav Tuceac, 32, who was born in Moldova and moved to Ukraine a number of years in the past together with his spouse. However the bridge assault, he fears, could be “the beginning of a series of occasions.”