Ukraine s Kharkiv Front Line Holds Despite Russian Bombardment – WSJ

KYIV, Ukraine Russian forces pounded Kharkiv, Ukraine s second-largest city, with airstrikes in a bid to break the will of the country s resistance as Moscow s offensive toward Kyiv stalled and Ukrainian officials said the invasion s civilian death toll has reached 2,000.

Kharkiv residents said the city of 1.4 million people suffered heavy bombardment for the third day in a row, including airstrikes that hit residential areas and civilian infrastructure. Kharkiv s municipality and police headquarters as well as the nearby university building were severely damaged and caught fire. Local authorities reported 21 dead and 112 injured in the past 24 hours. Moscow says it isn t targeting civilians.

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Yet killing civilians now seems to be a key part of Putin’s strategy, if you can call it that. I was taught in college (no idea how true this was) that this strategy tends not to work in the long run. Just encourages a population to dig in and hate your guts. We were cited the Strategic Bombing Survey after WW2 that the Pentagon conducted. Of course, this might have been Communist propaganda with a subtle anti-nuke message, like the anti-medium range missile craze of the 1980s.