How long do you think making a modern AAA game takes? If those big game companies only started working on a new game after shelving the previous one, they’d go bankrupt before it’s finished. That’s why they pretty much always have several projects in the works at any given time.
From what i know, Russia really likes using the tactic of ‘carpet bombing’. They just aim a bunch of these vaguely in a direction of a city and call it a day. Because who cares about the Geneva Convebtions, right?