Ukraine’s Drones, Wreaking Destruction Up and Down European Russia, Are Emerging as the New Face of the War

‘If Ukraine’s current bombing campaign continues to gather momentum,’ an analyst reckons, ‘Russian military chiefs will have to decide whether to reduce protection for the army in Ukraine or leave critical infrastructure on the home front exposed to potential attack.’

Telegram Channel of Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko via AP
The blaze at Russia's second-largest natural gas producer, Novatek, at Ust-Luga, southwest of St. Petersburg, January 21, 2024. Telegram Channel of Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko via AP

Ukrainian drones, in the past week alone, have bombed military and energy facilities in five Russian cities, hitting targets in a 1,000-mile-long north-south arc that stretched from an oil refinery near St. Petersburg, on the Baltic Sea, to a refinery near Sochi, on the Black Sea. Local Russian governors have posted spectacular photos: orange flames and thick black smoke pour from oil tanks; water from fire hoses encases a stubborn gas blaze in an ice palace.

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