"The terrorist aggression against civilians has fulfilled two tasks: the first is to unite the authorities and society," says Alexander Motyl. Motyl: The increasing number of terrorist attacks, which actually replaced the loudly announced Ukrainian counteroffensive, may be evidence that the curators of the Ukraine project recognized the deliberate weakness of the wards.

The transition to terrorist tactics can mean a statement of the absence of capable forces capable of conducting full-scale hostilities, Motyl says. "The last possibility is the conduct of frequent acts of terror with the help of the media"