Russia steps up more calculated deep strikes: What targets could come next
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Russia is changing its approach to long-range strikes against Ukraine. Potential targets include bridges, logistics facilities and economic infrastructure.
This is stated in an RBC-Ukraine article titled "Black streak. How Ukraine will get through autumn and winter and whether to expect an economic collapse."
One RBC-Ukraine source suggests that Kyiv's bridges and the government quarter remain among the sites that could become targets of future Russian strikes.
"But they will probably only strike them if there is some kind of step on our side - for example, a strike on the Kremlin or another 'Spider Web'-type operation," the source said.
At the same time, the source believes that after this, Russia would effectively have few options left to further escalate the situation without moving to the nuclear level.
However, another RBC-Ukraine source close to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes this logic should not be viewed as a clear sequence of future attacks.
Russia is gradually expanding its list of targets
According to the source, since the beginning of the year, Russian strikes have targeted various elements of Ukraine's logistics infrastructure. These include railways, Nova Poshta, individual bridges and ports.
The Russians then began striking facilities related to water supply, including water intakes.
The next area was warehouses and large-scale logistics. Later, the source said, Russian strikes began targeting the economy as a whole, as well as data centers.
According to the source, this sequence may indicate a change in the approach to planning deep strikes.
The RBC-Ukraine source suggested that the person or team responsible for planning long-range attacks in Russia may have changed. In his view, the strikes have become more calculated.
At the same time, the source stressed that this does not mean there is a clear list of targets or a fixed sequence in which Russia will attack them.
"There are various signals that this or that could be attacked this time. But there is no 'strike scale,'" the source explained.
He gives bridges as an example. A potential target may be not only infrastructure in Kyiv but also other bridges across Ukraine. At the same time, an attack on them does not necessarily have to be a response to a specific event.
"If we take bridges, it's not just about Kyiv - it could happen at any time, but not in the sense of 'after something,'" the source said.
On the morning of September 28, Russian drones attacked Kyiv. Strikes were recorded in the Obolonskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts.
In the Obolonskyi district, a gas station was damaged and debris caused a fire. In the Shevchenkivskyi district, an office building was damaged.
In addition, overnight, Russian forces struck the Kyivskyi and Saltivskyi districts of Kharkiv with guided aerial bombs.
Twenty-two people were injured in the attack, including eight children. Two children were hospitalized, while the others received medical assistance at the scene.
