To stop the advance of Ukrainian troops in the occupied part of the Herson district.
Russian artillery does that with ease, without flooding Russia's own troops and equipment. Your propaganda is as self-debunking as the assertion that Russia would blow up their own multibillion dollar pipeline and top negotiating tool that they could have turned off with a switch.
Why did the ruzzkie destroy dozens of cities that according to their own propaganda were "Russian"? Mariupol, Bakhmut, Volnovaha, etc. etc. etc?
Because your Azov pals were heavily dug in, especially with the tunnels under Mariupol. Duh.
LOL, which ruzzkie troll farm did you crawl out from?
There's a nice meme that neatly addresses this dipshit dumbfuckery. It's a clear picture of a banana, with a caption that says "this is an apple, if you see anything else, you're a Putin Puppet". Twenty years ago you losers would have been smearing Iraq war skeptics as Saddam Lovers. SSDD.
Quite strange then that the Ukrainian people have been resisting ruzzkie "approach" since the 90s, and are either trying to fight this invasion off or running away, mostly westwards, don't you think?
Quite colossally ignorant. Crimea was voting for more indepenence from Kiev and closer ties to Russia in the 90's. People in Donbass also overwhelmingly voted to re-join Russia. Small wonder as Kiev had spent eight years bombarding them.
Their war crimes are well-documented, numerous and unprovoked.
Annnnnnd more projection. Less than half a percent of Ukraine casualties are children, compared to 30% or more in Gaza. That's the difference between a war and a genocide. Russia hasn't even done decapitation strikes to take out the Banderite regime.
Basically, a terrorist shit will do terrorist shit anytime.
Using a HIMARS or an M-777 for your projection? Nazi America and Nazi Israel are by far the worst terrorist states the world has ever seen.
And once you see "banderites" and other similar propaganda shit, you know you're talking to a zetnik.
Western media was awash in reports on Ukraine's Nazi problem before it was time to forget all that to pretend Russia was the bad guy. Including NATO itself via their Atlantic Council think tank telling you of Hitler Youth camps set up in Ukraine.
Enjoy your bowl of shit, NAFO troll.