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In the Moscow Kremlin today, numerous discussions continued regarding the retaliation that Russia should inflict upon Ukraine for this past weekend's drone attacks against four Nuclear-triad bases inside Russia.
As a backdrop to those discussions, Dmitry Medvedev, former President of Russia prior to Vladimir Putin, and currently the Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council (i.e. Senate) posted on social media today:
Medvedev makes clear: "Everything that must explode will certainly explode, and those who must be exterminated will disappear."
These public remarks lead to Intelligence-gathering as to what Russia thinks must explode and who Russia thinks must be exterminated.
Two specific individuals were brought into the Kremlin to advise the Russian Army General Staff, and President Putin on these issues.
At today's discussions in the Kremlin Vice President of the Russian Academy of Artillery and Rocket Sciences Konstantin SIVKOV made clear
"First, we must destroy four key facilities in Kiev:
-- the residence of the President of Ukraine,
-- the headquarters of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of Ukraine,
-- the General Staff itself, and
-- the headquarters of the Security Service of Ukraine.
These facilities, he said, "must be destroyed in broad daylight - with the aim of destroying the personnel. These are not civilians. If Zelensky is there, let him be destroyed too. The main thing is to destroy the apparatus - the experts."
Next, the Head of the Moscow Center for the Study of Military and Political Conflicts Andrei KLINTSEVICH said
"Russia's priority should be the destruction of Ukraine's energy and power transmission systems. 10-15 precise strikes are enough for that. With them, we can turn off all electricity to Ukraine, stop all its trains and military factories."