LONDON: Russia is urgently ramping up its air defences in Moscow amid
evident fears of a full-scale attack on the capital city [from Ukraine],
with an anti-air system also being installed near President Vladimir
Putin's official residence outside the capital, local media reported.

A Pantsir-S1 defence system has appeared on the roof of the Russian
defence ministry's National Defence Management Centre (NTsUO) on
Frunzenskaya Embankment, the command centre of Putin's invasion of
Ukraine, Daily Mail reported.

A video showed the same powerful system being lifted onto a rooftop in
Teterinsky Lane, Taganka district, one-and-a-half miles from the Kremlin.

And in another clip, the installation of another Pantsir-S1 complex
emerged close to the Russian president's country retreat in Novo-Ogarevo,
evidently to protect him from Ukrainian drones or missiles, Daily Mail
reported.

Pro-Russian Telegram channel Military Informant acknowledged this was an
admission that Moscow, with a 12 million population, is now vulnerable,
with the deployment underscoring that the "the military are afraid of a
possible strike".

On Wednesday, photographs appeared of the modern S-400 missile defence
system in two locations, one in fields belonging to the Timiryazev
Agricultural Academy in the northwest of the city, another Losiny island
in a national park to the northeast where trees were felled for the
installation.

There are reports of such deployments at half a dozen sites in Moscow, as
Putin daily increases his defences in the capital city, Daily Mail
reported.

One deployment is said to be at Zarechye village, close to his country
retreat Novo-Ogarevo, said Sirena Telegram channel.

https://www.sentinelassam.com/international/russia-ramps-up-moscows-air-defences-with-missile-launchers-placed-on-roofs-634139

### - seeing as we're not giving 'em too many tanks (at least not yet, or
only very slowly then) perhaps we're giving them longer range
missiles/drones & shells instead? (could be!)

god help ukraine (the capital kiev in particular) if anything happens to
moscow though, coz we saw what russia did when ukraine blew up their
bridge that time: they destroyed ukraine's power system/grid! so fuck
knows what they'd do if they damaged moscow or even the kremlin itself
huh...

jeez it doesn't even bear thinkin' about?

ffs don't do it!

coz if'n they do then they'd better be prepared for some heavy 'effin'
shit!

meanwhile, a rather predictable winter stalemate has ensued... the
russians are dug-in, there being very little ukraine can now do except
hurl themselves at russia's defensive lines occasionally, where even if
they break-through one time they'll immediately be surrounded on 3 sides
by the whole russia army and repelled/destroyed?

nope, it's gonna take one helluva mo-fo battle to change 'anything' now,
and ukraine just hasn't gots the manpower, nor even enough modern weapons
to really alter the current stalemate more than so...

so wtf are they (and the west) thus planning to do then eh? coz only nato
chiming-in at some point could make any real difference now!

that's all that's... left??

(and ya know what THAT means huh...)