Tonight Putin bombed the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra cathedral, a unique UNESCO World Heritage site, built in the year 1051.

How much more will we tolerate before we send the devil back to hell?

@randahl

russia bombs apartment buildings, ukraine bombs oil refineries

if russia wants to expand the target list to cultural sites (their aim after all is annihilation of ukrainian identity), i say ukraine gets to expand the target list as well

i don't think it should be an eye for an eye, such as bombing st. basil's cathedral, because ukraine has the moral upper hand here

but a target list expansion is warranted

how about putin's stupid palace?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace

it's not far away

Putin's Palace - Wikipedia

@benroyce @randahl Bombing Putin and his allies' stuff specifically would be funny and deserved.

@galad @randahl

bombing putin's palace or other oligarch compounds would cause the russian people to shrug or even cheer

meanwhile genius putin bombing cultural sites takes ukrainian steel resolve to tungsten hardness level resolve

fucking idiot

at this point we should rename tungsten ukrainium

or at least rename the element moscovium to whatever ukraine wants it to be

nah, maybe leave moscovium named as it is: it's incredibly unstable

@benroyce @randahl Very Mara Lago taste, but with perhaps a tad less good frippery (from what Wiki shows).a perfect target.

Apparently his official country house was entirely rebuilt to be bomb-proof.

@benroyce @randahl

I share the sentiment but feel that targeting Putin's palaces, while it would feel great, takes resources away from destroying Russia's war machine. Each bomb redirected to a palace is one that could have been dropped on a strategic target.

Every barrel of oil Russia can't process benefits Ukraine, every bullet they can't produce benefits Ukraine, and thus every bomb needs to fall on part of Putin's war machine.

Besides, sentencing Russia's war criminals to demolish the palaces by hand with sledgehammers would be much more satisfying.

@RantingCanuck @randahl

agreed military strategy is numero uno

but ukraine's abilities and capacity is surging. they can afford a propaganda win with a strike on putin's palace. sending one good message has great value in crushing morale and causing a divide between the oligarchs and the average russian person