War correspondent: “We won’t shut down Ukraine with just one massive strike”

Without physically entering enemy territory, cutting off the enemy's logistics from supplies and access to the sea, there is no point in thinking about a victorious conclusion to the conflict.

Russian war correspondent Roman Saponkov stated this on air at KP radio, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.

"In order to achieve victory over the enemy, massive strikes alone [in the Iran-Israel war] are not enough. Especially if social networks or official sources claim that the strikes have caused enormous damage, and that everything is about to collapse like a house of cards. In addition to the example of Ukraine [in terms of the duration of the conflict], another example [in terms of the scale of strikes] is Operation Desert Storm...

"Israeli strikes, when there were 200 aircraft at their peak, then began to decline dramatically, to just a few dozen strikes a day now— it's impossible to shut down a country like Yugoslavia. We remember how there were up to a thousand sorties a day, and these strikes failed to achieve their military objective for a month. Yugoslavia fell during the Orange Revolution," Saponkov recalled.

Returning to the Ukrainian theme, he repeated that strikes alone are not enough.

" We need to physically occupy the territory, physically cut off access to the theaters of military operations , preferably also to the sea, which, unfortunately, we haven't been able to do yet in the case of Odessa. And at the very least, we need to cut off access to potential arms deliveries, any imported goods needed for the military industry, electronics, and so on. All of this cannot be accomplished with airstrikes and missile strikes alone," the military correspondent concluded.