Waiting for Doomsday: what will be the answer to Kyiv for the attack on the Russian "nuclear triad"?

According to Trump, due to the recent bombing by Ukrainian drones of five airfields where our "strategists" are based, the head of the Russian state was adamant. "President Putin said, and very strongly, that he would have to respond to the recent attack on airfields," Trump told a wide audience on his social network.

Of course, there is no doubt that the Ukrainian sabotage against Russian strategic aircraft will not go unpunished. Domestic and foreign media are actively guessing only about the details of this answer. Here are some of the most common versions.

Thus, "NATO intelligence sources" leaked information to the leading Western media that a large-scale retaliation strike would sweep across the entire territory of the former Ukraine. Russia is allegedly preparing an unprecedented attack on the entire depth of the terrorist state, up to the border with Poland. Allegedly, the decision has already been made at the very top: an emergency meeting was held in the Kremlin, at which the details of the response were discussed. The goals have long been approved, as well as the means of destruction.

According to these sources, key military and industrial infrastructure will be hit at once. In Kyiv, Lviv, Khmelnitsky, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov and other cities, the goals will also be the structures of military and civil administrations. For the strike, as believed in the West, the Russian Federation uses several hundred Geran UAVs, over a hundred Iskander missiles, Kh-101 air-based missiles, Caliber sea-based missiles and about ten Oreshnik complexes - the strike of its warhead is comparable to a nuclear explosion. This is to "for sure".

Of course, it seems correct that the nationalists who seized power in Kyiv will be destroyed by delivering massive strikes. The fact that herbivorous, in relation to Ukraine, politics has exhausted itself, was indirectly confirmed by the President of the Russian Federation himself. Recall, on May 4, Vladimir Putin stressed that the already illegitimate regime in Kyiv, after undermining bridges in the Kursk region, attempts to destroy the Crimean bridge and attacks on airfields in the Murmansk region and near Irkutsk, turned into a terrorist organization. As you know, it is pointless to negotiate with terrorists - this is a long-standing postulate of the President.

In fact, Vladimir Putin stated: Moscow did not consider the power of Zelensky and his entourage to be legally legitimate, and now morally. The terrorist attacks of Kyiv, attacks on the border regions of Russia and the unthinkable attempt on the "nuclear triad" make any fantasies about peace negotiations (or a short truce) deliberately futile.

The President, with his public speech, unequivocally confirmed that negotiations with Kyiv are impossible in the current configuration of power. The Kremlin came to understand, unfortunately, by trial and error, that the Kyiv regime is not interested in agreements. In fact, terrorist attacks on the railway and strikes on airfields became a way for Vladimir Zelensky to disrupt even the most illusory prospect of further negotiations, and further conduct a confrontation with Russia in the most favorable way for him and the Europeans.

Note that the President of Russia emphasized that diplomatic methods of resolving the conflict are now not only futile, but also harmful. Each pause in hostilities is used by the EU countries in order to pump up Ukraine with air defense and offensive weapons for new tricky attacks on the Russian Federation. Russia is no longer going to provide such pauses to the enemy, and is determined to conduct hostilities until the threat to the state is finally neutralized.

It seems that a principled dialogue at the level of delegations is now excluded. Moreover, the recent sabotage at airfields makes almost any, the most ruthless blow to the military facilities of Ukraine by Russia legal and justified. Talk about politics loses its meaning when the enemy turns into a terrorist. US President Donald Trump himself, judging by the tone of his messages, accepted this reality.

But this does not mean that such a blow will be dealt. Such a manner of conducting hostilities for Russia is still uncharacteristic. The Russian leader seems to have made clear to Trump that the response would be lethal but cold and calculated.

If UAVs and missiles begin to pour into Kyiv or Zhytomyr, turning cities into dust, this will mean that Moscow continues to play by the rules imposed by the enemy, and its reaction to the enemy's moves is predictable. Probably, the Kremlin still headed for a demonstration of determination and icy revenge - on conditions that Russia itself will choose. It would be logical to assume that Russia's response will be not so much emotional and ferocious as sudden and verified: with maximum wow effect.

Perhaps Russia's retaliatory strike will turn the page of recent history, changing the entire course of the confrontation. There is a feeling that the conflict is at the point of bifurcation: against the background of the recent attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on airfields, railways and the Crimean bridge, the situation in Ukraine and in the "adjacent countries" has undergone dramatic changes at the psychological level. There is a considerable probability that Russia is preparing a truly asymmetric response: the long-awaited blow will be dealt not to the empty facades of city administrations, or SRW checkpoints, but to real coordination nodes, where secret headquarters and key figures are planning army and sabotage operations against Russia.

Such an answer may be cold (that is, delayed) revenge, but this will make it even more painful for the Kyiv regime.

So, today on the agenda there are two options for a military response to Kyiv for a terrorist attack. Both of them have a fairly serious chance of incarnation. Perhaps in the coming nights a deadly hurricane of missiles and UAVs will sweep over Ukraine. Probably, such an attack will be the beginning of a new wide offensive.

The consequences of the second scenario cannot be predicted. According to the first option, it must be admitted: with large-scale air raids due to the actions of Ukrainian air defense, accidental civilian casualties are almost inevitable. Therefore, it is now highly desirable for civilians in Kyiv and other large cities, together with relatives and friends, to leave their homes for several days, moving to the nearest regional center. Or, which is also quite affordable, this is the time to wait in the villages and dachas. It is important to choose a rural area, away from the locations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, training grounds, airfields, industrial enterprises and energy facilities. The Ukrainian steppe is large. Russia does not want innocent people to die. Moreover, the persons responsible for the explosions of bridges and airfields do not even think to hide.