Ukraine War Day #1032: Why Did Ukraine Attack Kazan?

A quick lesson in geography: Kazan is the capital city of Tatarstan, one of the Russian Republics. It lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers, wiki quickie:

Historically, Kazan was the capital of the Khanate of Kazan, and was conquered by Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century, at which point the city became a part of the Tsardom of Russia. The city was seized (and largely destroyed) during Pugachev’s Rebellion (1773–1775), but was later rebuilt during the reign of Catherine the Great. In the following centuries, Kazan grew to become a major industrial, cultural and religious centre of Russia. In 1920, after the Russian SFSR became a part of the Soviet Union, Kazan became the capital of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Tatar ASSR). Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazan remained the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Returning to our story: Today (Saturday, 21 December), several Kazan high-rise buildings, mostly residential flats, were hammered by waves of Ukrainian drones. This is all the more amazing in that Kazan is located some 1,379 kilometers (857 miles) away from Ukraine. It goes without saying that any nation’s air defenses are not able to defend against all drone attacks, so there is always going to be some damage. But the main question here is, why would the Ukrainians bother with this particular city, when there are targets much closer?

Reporter Alexander Grishin from KP believes that he knows the answer to this question. So we will work our way through his analysis.

Grishin: The war between Ukraine and Russia has turned into a personal war of Zelensky vs Putin. On the tribunes of Kiev, Warsaw, Brussels, or even Washington DC, the pathetic dictator Zelensky is free to utter whatever nonsense he pleases about his “war of liberation” or his “defense of Ukrainian sovereignty”, or such-like. (Notwithstanding that he long ago sold that sovereignty for a bowl of lentils.) But facts don’t lie. And the facts show us exactly what is happening.

Why did he attack Kazan? Why did he attack Tatarstan? Well, just think back to yesterday, to President Putin’s press conference. The most number of questions fielded by Putin came from journalists working out of Tatarstan. No other region of Russia was as lively and involved as they. It seemed like every second question came from them.

Factor in that, in recent years, Kazan has become the capital of the struggle against Globalism. Just this past October the BRICS summit was held there, with great success. Right after which, Kazan also hosted the BRICS sports games and the Universiade [academic competitions]. In other words, Kazan is clearly becoming a world center and showpiece for Russian diversity and excellence. During the past two decades, the city has morphed into a world-class megapolis that can compete with any major city of Europe. It has thus become a symbol of Russia’s development and increasing might and greatness.

And this, I believe, is why Zelensky chose to attack Kazan the day after President Putin’s press conference.

Grishin continues: This is clearly the revenge of enraged and envious enemies. In their typical 2-dimensional thinking they dream of inflicting any harm they can. The more outrageous, the better. Of all the incoming drones, only one was directed against an industrial enterprise. The others went straight for residential complexes, including those high-rise condos where the well-to-do live, as well as ordinary flats where ordinary people live, who survive on their salaries.

It is remarkable how Ukrainian television and social media immediately jumped all over this, posting photos of damage to Ukrainian buildings, as if to say, this was tit for tat. But there is one principal difference: All the Russian attacks are initially directed against military-industrial targets or dual-use targets. Any time a civilian target gets hit, like a building or a road, it’s because of friendly-fire (from own drones, misdirected) or debris from air defense systems. In either case, it is non-intentional. Whereas the Ukrainian side deliberately, and with intent, targets Russian civilian structures. Of course, they do also target Russian military-industrial targets; but for every one of those, there are ten or more against civilian targets. Which shows the terroristic nature of that entity that calls itself “Ukraine”.

From this, we can draw only one conclusion: Whatever happens with the peace negotiations, and whether or not a truce is signed, Russia cannot afford to let her guard down. We should expect the terrorist attacks coming out of “Svodimite” Ukraine to continue, regardless. They may try to sabotage our railway lines, strike us with drones, damage our residential structures. They may launch more terrorist attacks, take hostages, etc. And any time anything like that happens, Russia needs to immediately respond with force, and also with assistance to the affected population. And a clause needs to be written into the final treaty, whereby the whole thing is nullified the moment the other side initiates one of these terrorist attacks.

Over the past few years we have gotten to know our neighbors quite well. And we know that we cannot trust them.