Political scientist Oleg Sahakyan believes that Putin's New Year's missile attacks on Ukraine are for the Russians to show the so-called power of the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin. 

 Political scientist Oleg Sahakyan told

about this for 

Channel 24 .

"The task was absolutely not a military plan.

The key recipient of this signal was not an average Ukrainian

. This is no longer a shelling to intimidate us. The Russians understand that it is not successful, but only increases the level of rage in Ukraine.

The target of the shelling is for the internal Russian consumer

. It is because of this that shelling is always accompanied by propaganda coverage, videos of missile launches are immediately published. They declare that everyone in Ukraine is without electricity, everyone is panicking, Sahakyan said, said the political scientist.

The expert noted that Vladimir Putin wants to demonstrate his greatness in this way.

The dictator

justifies himself before the Russian society.

"This shelling started when

Putin's greetings were spread on social networks.

The Russians spread it and information about missile launches," added Sahakyan.

Putin's missile attack on Ukraine on December 31: what is known

On December 31, the Russian Federation massively bombarded Ukrainian cities with missiles.

Kyiv suffered the most.

The missiles were launched both by land-based systems and strategic aviation from the Caspian Sea.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi commented on Russia's missile strikes and assured that "the terrorist state of the Russian Federation will not be forgiven."

According to preliminary data, on December 31, the occupiers fired more than 20 cruise missiles over Ukraine.

PPO eliminated 12 of them.

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