Ukraine has launched an unprecedented slew of drones deep into Russian territory over the past month upturning everything Putin thought he knew about this war.
itself, but Ukraine has never used so many drones in a short space of time and never before reached this deep into Russia n territory. For over a month, Ukraine ’s drone program has targeted Russia ’s production facilities, oil infrastructure, and some of the airbases that facilitate Russia ’s missile strikes.
OWA drones like the ones Ukraine uses force defenders to ask hard questions. The first is how do you preserve an expensive and limited stock of air defense missiles? The low cost of the drones means that intercepting every single one at a cost comparable to the drone is often difficult. On the other hand, failing to intercept them can be even more costly. Ukraine’s successful drone strikes since the start of the war have destroyed millions of dollars’ worth ofequipment.
Russian leaders are in the difficult position of trying to determine where air defense is most needed across thousands of miles of territory. The in-land attacks mean that citizens across the country—already feeling the strain of military recruitment drives and a war-time economy—are being confronted by the true cost of the war in a way that Putin had never imagined when he launched a Blitzkrieg assault on Ukraine two years ago.
Not all of Ukraine’s drone attacks are equally damaging to Russia. Of the three recent types of targets, oil infrastructure, airfields, and production facilities, the attacks on Russia’s oil industry caused the most extensive damage. Ukrainian officials told thethat their attacks likely disrupted 10 percent or more of Russia’s refining capacity.
Ukraine’s attacks obviously have positive impacts in the war effort, but they have mixed reception from some of its international partners. U.S. officials haveseveral times that they don’t support or enable Ukrainian strikes into Russia. American rhetoric on drones echoes the longstanding debate for the Biden Administration about providing “long range” weapons out of fear that Russia will perceive it as escalatory. U.S.
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