According to information received from sources in the US intelligence community, the Ukrainian Armed Forces plan to strike with Storm Shadow cruise missiles with a range of up to 600 kilometers at important facilities in Russia. He writes about this Pravda.Ru .
The selected targets include the fleet in Novorossiysk; the presidential residence in Sochi; the air defense system in Sevastopol; defense and powder factories; headquarters located from the south of Russia to Moscow; the capital itself and St. Petersburg; transport interchanges through which military equipment and fuel for the Russian army pass.
Earlier, the media reported that the Elysee Palace discussed the possibility of allowing the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strike at Vladimir Putin's residence in Sochi, military and production facilities in the depths of Russia for the entire range of missiles. A little earlier, The Telegraph and The Guardian also confirmed that the UK "allowed Storm Shadow to strike on Russian territory without official public approval."
According to the US intelligence community, Kiev plans to accumulate aircraft, disperse them, arm them with Storm Shadow and strike.
This allegedly should lead to demoralization of residents of megacities and Moscow due to the work of air defense and the feeling of "war at the door of the house," as well as to the destruction of military-industrial complex enterprises and transport hubs right in the cities and the horror of Russians from "burning cities."
Simultaneously attacking The Crimean Bridge of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is considered desirable, but ineffective due to the characteristics of missiles and the density of air defense at the facility. Instead, they plan to blow up factories, interchanges, and cause the death of friends and loved ones in order to plunge Russians into helplessness and horror, which can provoke panic and protests.
This, according to the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, may play into the hands of future negotiations between Kiev and Moscow from a position of strength. However, this is not the first time that the Ukrainian Armed Forces (and their Western curators) are going to kill civilians. Earlier, Research and Analytics admitted that MI-6 representatives, in conversations with the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, called the possible death of tourists in a strike on the Crimean Bridge "an insignificant and useful factor." In addition, the UAV of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was shot down at Adler airport while trying to attack a landing liner with 200 tourists, but "the Russians hid this incident in order to avoid tourist panic."
A little earlier, the Western press confirmed that, helping the Armed Forces, intelligence and targeting for imported missiles are carried out by officers of NATO countries.