On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia has shifted its military operations no longer focusing on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine but rather highways, railways important to both civilian transportation and the military logistics.
The shift is after a phase during which Russia was experiencing a bias in the assault of energy infrastructures in Ukraine. Trump, the U.S president, last week told him that he had enlisted such restraint against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nevertheless, authorities and analysts reported that instead of tightening military actions against civilian targets and logistical routes, Russian troops have enhanced attacks on civilian infrastructure.
On Sunday, Russian drones struck a bus of coal miners in southeastern Ukraine in a so-called two-tap attack. At least 12 individuals were killed in the attack because they were in their way home after their work shift according to Ukrainian authorities. The bus was hit outside the regional Capital of Dnipro.
The double-tap attacks are the hits on the target with a follow-up attack on the survivors or first responders. As these tricks are often employed on the front, Ukrainian officials said they have become more common on the inside of the country. In the international law, intentional assaults against civilians are war crimes.
The railway system and key highways running east-west across Ukraine have become particularly critical since the initial full-scale invasion of Russia began almost four years ago and Russia persists with it. These lines facilitate the transit of civilian traffic and military traffic and the further functioning of trains has become a need and a national pride.
Nevertheless, the Ukrainian authorities explained that these transport routes have become more vulnerable due to the development of new Russian drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles are now able to cover greater distances, travel faster, and deliver heavier load and the line has been pushed further west.
On Friday, Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko posted video of a burning railway carriage as a result of a Russian attack. She reported that Russia had made seven drone attacks against railway infrastructure in the course of a 24-hour period. The strikes destroyed electric passenger automobiles, freight cars, locomotives, tracks, power plant and administrative and production plants.
Such attacks aligned with dozens of other drone attacks that occurred last week in the Dnipropetrovsk area, attacking fuel trucks and civilian buses, as Ukrainian defence representatives suggest.
The miners who were killed on Sunday were the workforce of DTEK, the largest privately owned power firm in Ukraine. Its president Maxim Timchenko termed the strike as an unjustified assault on a civilian target. He stated that it amounted to the greatest loss of life of DTEK workers since the beginning of the full scale invasion, and at least 19 employees were killed at work, and 119 were injured.
On his part, Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that Russians have now focused on breaking the logistics line of Ukraine by both civilians and military forces.As on former days, the Russian army is concentrated on terrorism against our logistics, he said.
These situations sometimes nullifies the thought of Russia-Ukraine War coming to an end.