Moscow’s barrage of missile strikes on Ukrainian cities elicited celebratory comments from those who have criticized the Russian military for a series of battlefield setbacks. But others suggest Putin is becoming a hostage of his own supporters’ views.
Putin’s supporters have been calling for drastic steps on the Ukraine battlefield for weeks. These calls intensified over the weekend, shortly after an explosion on the Kerch Bridge linking Crimea to Russia sent shock waves around the globe. The bridge, Europe’s longest, is a prominent symbol of Russian military might and was opened by Putin himself in 2018.
“This is one of those cases when the country needs to show we can hit back,” wrote Alexander Kots, a war correspondent for Russia’s popular pro-Kremlin tabloid, Komsomolskaya Pravda. For the first time in months, Russian missiles exploded in the very heart of Kyiv, in dangerous proximity to government buildings.Putin said Monday the strikes were in retaliation for what he called Kyiv’s “terrorist” actions targeting the Kerch Bridge, and vowed a “tough” and “proportionate” response should Ukraine carry out further attacks that threaten Russia’s security.“Here comes the response,” RT’s Simonyan tweeted on Monday after the attacks.
Another state TV journalist, Andrei Medvedev, called Monday’s attacks “a logical step, which not just the society has long demanded — the military situation demanded a different approach to the hostilities.”
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