@Pluto's Republic
Eliminating as many Nazis as possible, even when they run.
Israel spent decades hunting down hiding Nazis across the world, and continue today.
I see NO reason Russia cannot do the same. Hunt them down like dogs and bring them to justice, no matter what position they hold or held.
Thanks for the post.

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There was little damage, and the attack was seen as an act of desperation during a Ukrainian retreat due to defeat.

Some of the drones used in the attack were purchased at toy stores. It's clear that Russia needs to develop better defense against toy-store drones.

Russia will not respond in kind with attacks on Ukrainian civilians, which is not only prohibited, but is especially unthinkable while the war is clearly winding down.

A few weeks ago, Dmitry Orlov summarized Where Russia Stands in regard to its goals under the Special Military Operation in Ukraine. Here's an excerpt of that summary:

It is not too early to say that the operation appears to be a success.
The main goal of the SMO was to protect Russian people on former Ukrainian territory, who had no wish to accept neo-Nazi ideology of the Banderite junta.

(Stepan Bandera is the great Ukrainian hero celebrated by the Kiev regime. He is, in fact, an assassin, a terrorist sentenced to death, sentence then commuted to life in prison in Poland, who was then freed when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. He then worked with the German Nazis to perpetuate acts of genocide against Jews, Poles, Russians and other minorities that shocked even the German Nazis themselves. After the war he fled to Munich, where he was eliminated by a KGB agent.)

In February of 2022 the Ukrainian troops, lavishly equipped and outfitted by NATO, were poised to launch a genocidal attack against the city of Donetsk and surrounding densely populated, industrialized heartland of the Donbass region. This attack was successfully thwarted. This was Russia's first victory in SMO.

Since then, the goal of protecting the Russian population has been only partially met with the incorporation of formerly Ukrainian Crimea, Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson into the Russian Federation. Although Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson remain under partial Ukrainian occupation, there is steady progress being made in liberating them. Over the past year, Russian troops have secured control over 5000 km2 of territory and, most importantly, have pushed Ukrainian artillery far enough away from Donetsk and its suburbs, mostly putting an end to the shelling of civilians by Ukraininan terrorists. There remain other regions of the former Ukraine, including, minimally, Nikolaev, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Sumy and Kiev, that have been Russian for anywhere between three and eleven centuries. Their ultimate disposition remains to be determined and the goal of protecting the Russian population is at this time only partially achieved.

A major goal of the SMO was to prevent the Ukraine from joining NATO and to stop NATO expansion toward Russia's borders and its encroachment on Russian territory. Recent statements by the second Trump administration indicate that it has finally dawned on the Washingtonians that the Russians will never allow the Ukraine to join NATO and the plan to allow it to do so has been cancelled. This is a major breakthrough.

A very important aspect of the SMO was in preventing any direct military conflict with the United States. This appears to have been achieved with the restoration of normal diplomatic relations between the Russian Federaiton and the US initiated by the Trump administration. The world was, for a time, in considerable danger of nuclear escalation thanks to the incompetence of the Biden administration and its senile leader, and it could have been made much worse if he were replaced by the mentally retarded Harris, but the world appears to have dodged that bullet, for now.

A stated goal of the SMO was denazification. The legalistic interpretation of this term is to make sure that Nazis are no longer in control of the Ukrainian government. But that could have been a temporary condition, given how easy Ukrainian politics has been for external forces (US State Dept., USAID, NED, CIA...) to manipulate. What Russia's armed forces have achieved instead was a physical rather than a political solution and thus a permanent one: the physical elimination of most Ukrainian Nazis. They are mostly dead and, given the Ukraine's absolutely dismal birth rate and rapid depopulation, unlikely to regenerate in any great numbers. Nevertheless, there remains a large number (tens to hundreds of thousands) of Ukrainian Nazi war criminals for Russia to round up and process. Just as with the Nazi hunters after World War II, this process could take many decades.

— Dmitry Orlov: Special Military Operation Progress Report