High altitude, low accuracy bombing campaigns.
This article suggests that Ukraine isn't nearly as impregnable to Russian forces as you suggest.
The Russian air force remains largely intact despite its grinding war in Ukraine, according to independent analysis and official comments.
www.airandspaceforces.com
This article might be fearmongering, but suggests the Russian air attacks could be very ugly.
I honestly can't even imagine what that would look like this isn't WW2.
Uh anything is possible but Russia in theory needs to conduct serious SEAD operations against Ukraine's air defense network first and for whatever reason they've been incapable of doing that so far. The US just rolled up a high level spy network in the BND that supposedly Russia had trying to crack Ukraine's air defense network locations. Ukraine has fighter jets as well that I'm sure they would deploy if Russia tried using their bombers inside Ukraine. It's much less risky to have them fire cruise missiles from Russia or the Caspian Sea. I'm pretty sure I watched a video where most of Russian bombers are out of production and they may be incapable of producing some... so any loss there is serious and this was also before sanctions.
Anything is possible in war but I think it's important we look at Russia's capabilities and the use of their air force so far to gauge what is realistic instead of looking at the number of aircraft they allegedly have and what the US could do in similar circumstances.
I don't have a wapo subscription and they churn out even more bs than the nyt
Also not for nothing but NATO has that whole grid under surveillance it would really be a suicide mission
Just happened to check what was going on over Ukraine now and this is just what is public
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