Nadezhda Romanenko – RT.com May 26, 2025
In the current media frenzy surrounding the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, a glaring double standard continues to distort public perception: the nature and impact of drone warfare. Western outlets, politicians, and NGOs are quick to pounce on Russia for retaliatory actions, yet remain eerily silent about Ukraine’s increasingly reckless and escalatory drone campaign. This selective outrage has not only undermined serious dialogue on peace – it has shielded Ukraine from accountability as it wages what can only be described as a campaign of terror against Russian civilians.
Drone war reality: Civilian targets in Russia
Over the past few weeks, Ukraine’s use of drones has surged in both frequency and range. On a near-daily basis, dozens – sometimes hundreds – of drones are launched toward Russian territory, many targeting civilian infrastructure or flying indiscriminately toward dense urban centers like Moscow. While Russia’s air defense systems have performed admirably in intercepting the majority of these threats, the falling debris poses an unavoidable risk to civilians, including children and the elderly. Russian regions far from the frontlines have been forced into a state of constant vigilance, air raid alerts disrupting the normalcy of everyday life.
What’s most alarming is the strategic logic – or lack thereof – behind these strikes. Unlike military-grade precision operations, Ukraine’s drone attacks appear designed less to achieve tactical objectives and more to instill fear. The targets are often electrical substations, communication towers, or simply proximity to residential areas. This cannot be framed as mere collateral damage; it is a campaign whose effects are felt most deeply by civilians.
Western silence and hypocrisy
Despite this escalating threat to Russian civilians, international reaction has been resoundingly one-sided. There is no UN condemnation of Ukraine’s drone strikes. There are no emergency meetings in Brussels, no CNN specials about Russian children running to bomb shelters. Instead, the focus is singular: Russia’s every response is dissected, denounced, and demonized. The same countries that cheer on Ukraine’s technological advancements in warfare turn a blind eye to the human cost – so long as the humans in question are Russian.
This selective outrage creates a moral vacuum in which Ukraine is emboldened to continue its drone war with impunity. Zelensky, backed by his Western sponsors, is not held accountable for the reckless escalation he fuels. Worse still, this impunity undermines any real incentive for dialogue. Why negotiate when your side is never blamed?
Russia’s measured response
What is most striking in this dynamic is Russia’s restraint. Despite the volume and severity of the attacks on its territory, Moscow’s drone strikes remain focused on disrupting military logistics and strategic assets within Ukraine – often near the frontlines. Russia has refrained from matching Ukraine’s willingness to launch indiscriminate aerial barrages deep into population centers. If anything, it has used this period to demonstrate its commitment to a diplomatic resolution, responding from a defensive posture while signaling that its hand remains extended toward the peace table.
At some point, however, enough is enough. A nation cannot allow its citizens to be terrorized indefinitely while posturing for peace. The Kremlin has an obligation to protect its people. And that means pushing back against these drone incursions with the seriousness they deserve.
The path to peace, and who’s blocking it
Critics will claim Russia’s posture is inconsistent with its actions, but the facts tell a different story. Moscow remains open to dialogue. It is not demanding one-sided ultimatums, nor is it setting artificial deadlines as Western capitals often do. Contrast this with the theatrics of Zelensky and his handlers in Washington and Brussels, who have turned negotiations into performative exercises rather than serious efforts to end the conflict. It is not Russia who walked away from Istanbul in 2022. It is not Russia who ignored the Minsk process when it was politically inconvenient.
Russia enters any future negotiations not as a supplicant, but as a state that has demonstrated both military strength and diplomatic maturity. It does so knowing full well that any peace must be just, balanced, and grounded in the lessons of the past – chief among them, that appeasement and naïveté only invite betrayal.
There is indeed a stark difference between Ukraine’s and Russia’s drone strikes. One is a campaign of terror, reckless and civilian-targeted, encouraged by Western silence. The other is a reluctant defense, carried out with discipline and restraint. If peace is to be achieved, it must begin with honesty about who is escalating, who is suffering, and who continues to act like a responsible power even while under attack.
Until the world is ready to admit that, Russian civilians will rely on their nation to do what must be done – and rightly so.
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the fight here is really freedom against NWO communism
Okay, I got so far, and…
Look, the Nazis, and specifically MI6, have calculated that Putin won’t use nukes.
Virtually every red line has been crossed by the Nazis, and Putin the Weak does zilch!
This weakness, or maybe, he’s the only adult in the room, often stated by pundits, has allowed the Nazis to consistently escalate to the point where we are now near the use of nukes.
Putin isn’t an island. Putin consults with a very big team, so he gets a broad spectrum of advice, but there’s responsibility with this advice. Putin can only play adult for so long. At some point he must throw his toys in the sink, or someone else will do it for him.
Why things are very dangerous right now.
Russia has stepped up its missile and drone attacks, they are preparing an additional 50,000 troops for UKraine. They have at least another 150k in the local area to call on. Thia suggests a much more aggressive stance and a Summer offensive. How far does Russia want to go? Well, as far as the river and Odesa and then a buffer zone. I don’t believe the river will be the buffer, and who knows, maybe even further, but unlikely.
Even when this is achieved late 2025/Summer 26. The war could continue, but on a missile, drone and regular air power footing.
All of this could lead to NATO Nazi troops in Western UKraine, a low level nuclear attack on Russia, more attempts on Putin’s life, more sanctions, and sanctions from Russia, and there could be your regular skermish on the none UKraine border which could lead to tactical nukes, and I say this, because Putin has given some levels of nuke use to regional command centers in case of decapitation events.
Both Donald Hitler and Putin are in personal danger. MI6 is trying to kill both of them, it’s hilarious.
LOL..
Even this imbecile isn’t telling the truth..Pootin’s chopper was targeted..yes that’s right they almost got him*….lol the yankees tried to take him out..of course you don’t get to hear this from the Z anoner’s…because it’s bad optics…
Obviously the imperial midget was upset that his handlers might want him dead..and pull a Wagner on him…so in a temper tantrum let loose on Kiev…
old news me old muckers, you can catch it all on Russian telegram..this article of course like the rest of it is just narrative nonsense…
* it seems the resolve is there..agreements were made which evidently now don’t apply..which accounts for all the rhetoric..Well. they have no choice do they?.. the system rot is terminal and time is running out..
Best line in this piece:
What is most striking in this dynamic is Russia’s restraint.
Here here, and amen!
It’s what separates the great from the lesser, again and again Russia has demonstrated that restraint, they could have flattened Ukraine from day one, and DID NOT.
Trump says Putin is crazy???
Not at all, and especially not for that…
In contrast, the wolf in sheep’s clothing demands weapons, especially nukes!
What they don’t tell you is that Russia & Ukraine are both governed by the same global allied coterie of Jewish ‘oligarchs’ (bankers/magnates/rabbis) pretending to be ‘enemies’ to setup/coordinate this war to waste whites soldiers/civilians in. Chandala Lubavitch is directing both Zelensky & Putin to advance Jewish eschatology. Figure it out
No news here. The jew controls the western media. The jew started the war by bombing the donbas for eight years. The jew is making all the money from the war it started. Of course the jewspapers are going to not point it out to the goyim. Why would they? The goyim will carry on saying “putin’s an evil dictator” until the day they die, because they’re told to say that and because they’re trained to never ask questions or think for themselves or seek out the truth. That’s the goyim that the jew has bred and that’s the goyim you have. The “big bad russians” haven’t shifted their position one millimeter the whole time.
I wish the “west” would just die.
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carl jones is a c*nt
@ Carl…
Putin doesn’t have a large retinue of advisors…he has a very few…he doesn’t even know how to use the internet..all his info comes from the FSB…who as you know are part of the global spook kabal..
Putin’s actually a mind controlled puppet..his brain is actually an FSB frontal lobotomy..FSB which of course he himself was…
Let’s put it this way..His best Buddy Roman Abramovich, part of the jewe crew that run the Russian gangster shithole, who were all given carte blanche by the Harvard jewes that created the Russkie federation..you know Sachs and Kissinger, people like that… who went to war with Beresovsky and khordorkovsky… because they began stiffing their tribesmen..
well…they tell you that Abramovich made his money selling rubber ducks…because that’s the contempt they hold imbeciles in…like the spook that wrote this screed..
Yes..it’s a good one!… because you get what you fucking deserve…and they all seem to..
By the way Jonesy..
If you haven’t worked it out, Putin was mob…he looked after the business..protection….he’s not some strategic fucking genius..and that’s why the War is a clusterfuck, because he’s answering to the Capo’s not the military..in fact he’s murdered or imprisoned all his best soldiers..because it might damage some berg or shteens bottom line…
and they want Slav’s dead..either way..
He’ll end up like Quaddafi… because that’s the game.
After Germany gives Ukraine long range missiles, Russia will nuke Ukraine, Europe will sh## itself and descend into social and economic kayos. BUT the real problem is the countries with no morals using chemical weapons. Small suicide squads dropping out of the sky loaded with chemical weapons.
Putin, go for the polish border !
I have to agree that the Russia-Ukraine operation has been prolonged to dispose of more Slavs (whites), just as most conflicts over the past several decades have done. Russia arguably has the most military might on the planet, so why didn’t/haven’t they taken out Kiev’s parliament/strategic headquarters from the get go? Why is Zelensky still alive?? Some have asserted that Putin, Zelensky & Trump are all of the Chabad Lubavitch ilk…operating in concert with each other. At first and second blush this seems to make to most sense, as we’re nearly 3 1/2 years into this demilitarization & denazification process.