Kyiv Hints of Strikes in Russia as Rand Paul Warns on ‘Forever War’

Ukraine says it is developing a strike drone with a range of more than 600 miles; Moscow is about 540 miles north of Kyiv.

AP/Efrem Lukatsky
People gather in a subway station being used as a bomb shelter during a Russian rocket attack at Kyiv, January 26, 2023. AP/Efrem Lukatsky

While Russia for the past several months has rained missiles on Ukrainian cities with impunity, Ukraine is now hinting that Moscow might soon get a taste of its own bitter medicine. A top adviser to President Zelensky, Mikhail Podolyak, said that “the internal escalation of the war in Russia is inevitable,” adding that “such cities that are pampered, lazy, who thought they live in a different reality, like Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, will be subject to blows.”

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