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Russia was in fact using exactly this bombers to attack Ukraine. It is one of their methods to launch cruise missiles. It is used by Russia as Ukraine cannot target planes in flight and it gives missiles far greater range than launching them from ground.
Maybe photo is not from invasion of Ukraine, but here you have Kh-101 missiles under the wings of a Tupolev Tu-95: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tu95MSM_%22Super_Modern%22_(24912829706).jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BC_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%B2_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D1%81_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D1%83-160.ogv has missile launch in Syria.
Not bothered to find official video of doing this as part of bombing Ukraine, but AFAIK noone is denying this.
Yes, invasion of Ukraine was a masterful stroke of genius strategy and was famously considered as masterfully prepared. Unlike emotional Ukrainian defense that had no strategic thought whatsoever.
In other words you generalization is just false.
And that is leaving aside fact that morale tends to be fairly important in war, so it is rational to take care of also that.
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