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Let’s talk Kramatorsk. The city is approximately 25 miles from Bakhmut/Artyomovsk, very close to the front lines in the Donetsk region. Ukraine claimed Russia struck civilians in a restaurant, turns out it was a hotel being used as a “temporary deployment point” for Ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries, to include some former and/or possibly current US/NATO soldiers. Russian MoD confirmed they struck the location, and that it was a military installation. The surfaced videos seem to corroborate this, as the rubble is full of soldiers. Of course, Ukraine and the West are painting this as a horrific war crime, when it is Ukraine who have been using civilian infrastructure throughout the war, to shield themselves from Russian fire and to smear Russia. Ukrainian forces will set up camp inside a rundown and empty school, and then when Russia bombs it, they call it a war crime. They’ve been doing it the entire time. Looking at the situation big picture, I think this escalation is somewhat tied to Prigozhin’s complaints, that Shoigu and Russian MIL are being too nice and that the Russian People want this to be resolved. It appears Putin and Shoigu have turned up the heat, and are becoming impatient with the West and their desires to prolong this war.