Z-propagandists Called The Oreshnik Strike On Ukraine A Show-off
1- 25.05.2026, 14:07
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Expensive iron into the ground.
The strike on Ukraine by Russia's newest missile, the "Oreshnik", launched on Sunday night and pitched as a "retaliation strike" for the attack on a dormitory in the "LNR," failed to excite the Russian Z-community, writes The Moscow Times.
The strike, which used "kinetic dummies" instead of warheads, "carries more of a psychological effect, which, naturally, is getting lower and lower each time," Rybar writes.
The goal of the "Oreshnik" was not any "strategic or at least symbolic object," the channel Two Majors notes. The military aimlessness of the strike "no longer evokes the spirit of the first Oreshnik," the channel complains: "Many people expected a more sensitive strike on the enemy."
"Stupidly very expensive iron into the ground. For the sake of a beautiful picture that no one (except pensioners) believes in anymore," z-war correspondent Vladimir Romanov resents. With "stories to grandmothers on TV" connects the use of "Oreshnik" and "Voenkor Kotenok".
"The whole pulp of these expensive retaliatory strikes is that there is a catastrophic lack of Maviks and FPVs on the front," writes Anatoly Radov. According to him, the AFU surpasses Russian forces in the number of drones by 2-3 times, because of which the spring-summer offensive stalls with "heavy casualties" and sometimes turns into a loss of positions for the RF Armed Forces.
"But Putin was told that everything is fine on Maviks (and even Telega should be closed to reduce these "fraudulent" fees on Maviks), and that we are even superior to the Kh*hlovs on FPV, which is a lie," Radov says.
The Russian military leadership may have struck Kiev in an attempt to distract the public from failures on the battlefield, as well as to "demonstrate strength and power to both domestic and foreign audiences," experts at the US-based Institute for the Study of War wrote. "Military Whistleblower" notes that the AFU has used drones to bring the R-280 "Novorossiya" highway, a key artery of the land corridor to Crimea, under fire control.
"The enemy's task is to undermine any logistics of the peninsula, including even the delivery of household items. And launches of blank Oreshniks at Kiev with a frequency of once every six months will not solve this problem, alas," the Military Informant lamented."
The Russian Defense Ministry on Sunday confirmed "a massive strike with Oreshnik ballistic missiles," emphasizing that it was carried out "in response to Ukraine's terrorist attacks on civilian facilities on Russian territory."
The ministry added that "the goals of the strike have been achieved, all designated targets have been hit."