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Recently Russia has intensified attacks on shopping malls and gas stations. The enemy has also begun to more often strike railway infrastructure with precise strikes.
Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation, spoke to Ukrainians with a warning.
What places should be avoided during air raid alerts?
Kovalenko urged people to react to air alerts.
During alarms avoid being at gas stations and in shopping malls. Take warnings and threats seriously,
— he explained.
The head of the CCD believes that by attacking Ukrainian gas stations, the Russian military command is trying to conceal problems with protecting its own refineries.
At the same time, he notes that gas stations cannot be compared with oil refineries: restoring a gas station or replacing it with a mobile station is much easier, since refineries are complex production facilities.
According to him, strikes on train stations and other civilian facilities can also be a way to divert attention from the consequences of Ukrainian strikes on the Russian military-industrial complex and economy.
Kovalenko suggests that in this way the Russian authorities seek to display visible results of the war to the population and to reduce dissatisfaction caused by problems in Russia.
To remind, in the morning 12 September Russia for the first time attacked gas stations in western Ukraine. An enemy drone hit a gas station in Rivne region.
On the eve, the occupiers hit two Ukrnafta gas stations in Kyiv – in Troieshchyna and near Pochaiv. The gas station in Pochaiv was later attacked again.
As a result of the hits, the gas stations sustained significant damage, and two people were killed.
A day earlier, a Russian jet drone struck a gas station near the Respublika Park shopping mall. At that moment there were many people and vehicles there, but everyone managed to evacuate.
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