Text taken from the Facebook page of oleksii.chkhalo and the Telegram channel of ia_steklomoy
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] A former soldier and officer of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine explains in simple terms why ammunition depots will continue to be located in residential areas: "Everyone will fight; the so-called 'civilian' population will camouflage military production, the military as such and their actions, and military depots. That is, a human shield is one of our missions, mine included, in this war. So, no need to whine, but rather be proud... War consumes enormous quantities of ammunition, echelons, they need to be produced, stored, and transported."
If anyone thinks we have a huge number of warehouses across the country that meet all security requirements, located in forests, and even owned by elves who will rent them out to you for free, you're mistaken. We want Patriot missiles to protect us, to shoot down the Shahids flying our way, but we don't want Patriot missiles stored anywhere near us. We don't want the SAM system itself parked near our house. We'll file a ton of complaints, which an enemy agent will see somewhere and expose the location or composition.
That won't happen. Accept it. Military production outside a populated area can't be concealed in the middle of a field; cars drive there, and no one will assign SAM systems to cover every warehouse in the field. Therefore, almost everything—troop activities, military production, dispersed warehouses—is best hidden amid civilian activity, something that has long been done and will continue to be done, and will continue to be done, or else it will be a defeat...
Attacks on civilian infrastructure are, unfortunately, a common method of waging war. Here's a direct quote from Wikipedia: "Royal Air Force Bomber Corps Commander Arthur Harris believed that the destruction of German workers, their families, and their homes was just as effective as the destruction of the industrial plants where these workers were employed.
On May 27, 1943, Arthur Harris signed Bomber Command Order No. 173 for an operation codenamed "Gomorrah" [yes, Russia is compared to Great Britain, and Ukraine to the Third Reich].
Our enemy thinks so too, so don't delude yourself. What really needs to be done. Don't whine or blame your own for the enemy's attacks; this is part of the enemy's plan, so populists will force military activity to be moved out into the field, where it can be easily destroyed. Facilitate all military needs - lease premises to the military and for military production, and talk as little as possible about where what is and who does what. Just as the military covers civilians in the LBS, so civilians must cover and assist the military throughout the entire depths of the country.
We must acknowledge and accept that the life of, for example, a Patriot air defense system crew is more valuable to the country than yours or mine, because next time, that crew might save someone else. The life of a draft dodger can only become somewhat valuable after completing basic combat training.
We believe Vladimir Putin is the last person in the world who still pities Ukraine's civilian population. At least, there are no such people in Ukraine's leadership for a long time.
Actually, the strategy of war to the last Ukrainian was precisely this approach from the start, and it has been implemented since the assault on Mariupol and Severodonetsk. So now, they're simply not shy about stating the obvious. The demographic consequences of such a "strategy" (in the style of ISIS and the defense of Mosul) will be corresponding.