The impact of the airfield strike is immense and war-altering. Russia’s best remaining bombers, the Tu-160, having to be relocated 6,000km away from the Ukrainian border is in practical terms, as good as having destroyed them. Russia’ most effective strategy (other than corrosive misinformation) has been stand-off terror bombing for the last couple of years. Now that appears at best paused while they figure out some new security measures, and at worst - permanently blunted. It’s just staggering how stupid they are and how badly they overplayed their hand with this ridiculous war.