'If these systems are being positioned in and around Moscow, it means they can't be used at the front or along the border with NATO,' expert says.
On January 19, Pantsir-S1 air defense systems began appearing conspicuously on the roofs of buildings in central Moscow. Days earlier, more sophisticated S-400 surface-to-air missile systems were spotted in parks outside of the downtown area.
," Marcel Plichta, a former U.S. Department of Defense analyst and current doctoral candidate at the University of St. Andrews, told"These are scarce military resources," he explained,"and so if the Russians are prioritizing the defense of Moscow, they're doing so at the expense of protecting other potential targets that are of greater military significance."
"The Ukrainian military prides itself on being a professional, ethical, modern fighting force," former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor told"and I can't even imagine a hypothetical scenario in which their general staff would decide that attacking Moscow would be an appropriate course of action."
"Ukraine doesn't exactly advertise these strikes, and so you have to hope that someone on the ground has captured footage of them," Plichta explained."But from what we've been able to see, these haven't been the result of 'Russian soldiers smoking where they shouldn't,' as Ukrainian officials sometimes say."
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