Russia doesn’t have enough cruise missiles to wage a scorched-earth campaign against Ukrainian civilians while fending off a Ukrainian counteroffensive to liberate occupied territory in the east, Western officials and analysts said.
“We know that they are running out of these cruise missiles, which is by the way the only precision, long-range weapon they still have,” a senior European military official told the Washington Examiner. “Soon, so early 2023, they will run out of it because that's something the defense industry in Russia cannot produce anymore.”
"The approaches to the special military operation have changed,” Russian politician Sergey Aksenov, the head of the Crimea region under Putin since the annexation of the peninsula that started the war in Ukraine in 2014, told Russian state media this week."I’ve been saying from the first day of the operation that if such actions to destroy the enemy infrastructure were taken every day, we would have finished everything by May and the [Ukrainian government] would have been defeated.
Putin may have had a very good reason for choosing not to conduct such attacks earlier in the conflict, in the judgment of one Western military official. "There are signs that he's running short in precision-guided munitions,” a second senior European official said this week. “I would argue that yesterday's cruel and violent show of force was quite expensive, not only in terms of monetary value but also in terms of the effect on the Russian stocks of long-range precision-guided ammunition.”
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