Allied with the troubled call-up of hundreds of thousands of troops, each new development helped fuel a sense of panic in Russia.
Putin said Monday’s deadly strikes were revenge, though Kyiv claimed they had been planned well in advance.
“The attacks have not degraded Ukrainian military capabilities and are fundamentally irrelevant to the fighting in the northeast and south of Ukraine,” Tuck said.
Sustaining such attacks will require a constant supply of rockets, which Moscow is increasingly running out of, military analysts said.
Already, Kyiv says Russia has been using more “kamikaze” drones, procured from Iran, as a cheaper and more dispensable alternative.