Attack on Kyiv: escalation or intimidation?

The Aargauer Zeitung caps the hyperbole on Sunday’s attack, especially as regards the use of the expensive Oreshnik missile:

“The Russians did not fire this relatively new intermediate-range missile at Kyiv, but at Bila Tserkva, a city about 80 km from Kyiv. … As the nighttime video footage shows, the cluster munitions were not equipped with explosive warheads. So this was more of a symbolic attack, which was quickly criticised by Russian military bloggers. An Oreshnik probably costs more than 20 million Swiss francs [22 million euros]. … For a ‘monstrous attack’ the death toll was relatively low, with four dead and just under 90 wounded in the greater Kyiv area.”