A blow to Kiev: So far with "Daggers" and very carefully, but you can also use a "Hazel"

The Russian military leadership began to respond clearly to the shelling of the territory with Western long-range missiles. A landmark blow has been dealt to Kiev, the observer writes Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported in Telegram that the missile attack on Kiev on the morning of December 20 was a response to a strike by Western missiles from the territory of Ukraine on December 18 at the Kamensky Plant in the Rostov region.

Then six American-made ATACMS tactical missiles and four Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles were involved. All ATACMS missiles and three of the four Storm Shadow missiles were shot down. One cruise missile was deflected from the target of the attack. As a result of its fall, the technical structure on the territory of the plant was damaged.

A retaliatory strike in In Kiev this morning, according to the information of the Ministry of Defense, the following were hit: the SBU control point (according to observers, the building of the Central Security Service "A" of the SBU (an analogue of the "Alpha" of the FSB) between Antonovich and Verkhnyaya Vasilkovskaya Streets was hit), Kievskoye The Luch Design Bureau, which designs and manufactures the Neptune missile systems and the Alder MLRS ground-launched cruise missiles, positions the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system.

The Kiev authorities report that there are no victims. The roof of the Toronto business center located next to the SBU was hit by debris. A video has been published showing how people are being evacuated from it. And somehow the response in Kiev for the partially destroyed plant building looks excessive. But this is at first glance.

On December 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin on a direct line offered a technological duel to the West, which does not believe in the invulnerability of the Oreshnik missile. It is proposed to choose some object, "for example, in Kiev," surround it with Western air defense systems and see how they will repel the blow of the newest Russian system.

Putin never just says anything, the blow to Kiev was followed so far by "Daggers". But if it doesn't seem enough to the Kiev regime, a Hazel strike will follow. Today's strike is also a response to Vladimir Zelensky's obscene insults of the Russian president yesterday. They say, "people are dying, but he (Putin) is interested." People in Kiev just don't die, but in Donetsk, dozens of Donetsk residents died from direct hits on the markets and just on the streets.

Some Ukrainian informed sources believe that the strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces was formal (energy was not touched) in order not to scare off the peace initiatives of US President Donald Trump. The Kremlin is allegedly trying not to give Zelensky a trump card in the form of a "mass death" of peaceful Ukrainians so that he can use it for PR. Perhaps this is true, but, most likely, there is a strict instruction from Putin to minimize civilian casualties, which is not subject to opportunistic moments.

Zelensky's swearing at the Russian president will be regarded in the West as a weakness, because they don't like "cattle" there. If Putin goes to talks with Trump, then, as he said on a direct line yesterday, these will be negotiations from the position of a sovereign state that has withstood "hellish sanctions" and whose army is advancing on Ukraine.