https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/reuters-staff-hit-strike-hotel-ukraines-kramatorsk-2024-08-25/
https://t.me/V_Zelenskiy_official/11456
“In particular, journalists were injured - the film crew of the Reuters agency. Citizens of Ukraine, America and Britain. An ordinary city hotel was destroyed by the Russian “Iskander”.” - Zelensky
Maybe, or it could have been poor intelligence, systems failure, or there could have been an actual HVT at this location, and they just didn't give a shit about any civilian collateral damage.
I'm not saying any one of those scenarios is more likely than what you're suggesting, just that they're all just as likely until we know more.
Edit: my bad, I didn't realize everyone here already knows for a fact that this was Putin lashing out, and there no possibility that it was anything else. You must share your OSINT gathering secrets with me.
It's more that giving a genocidal dictator the benefit of the doubt is in poor taste, even if you're right.
What benefit? What doubt?
None of the other possibilities reflect well on Russia either.
There's nothing in that article that provides any information as to how and why the hotel was struck, just that it was struck.
You can acknowledge Putin is a violent dictator, without pretending that he's some cartoon villain. Evil is more complex than that, and so is war.
At this point russians target whatever will make bigger news. If putin cannot make other countries respect his power, he'll at least show everyone how unhinged he is.
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