The Kremlin is scrambling to respond to an intensifying campaign of Ukrainian drone attacks reaching ever deeper into Russia, hitting key arms production facilities and causing fuel shortages across the country.
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The Kremlin is scrambling to respond to an intensifying campaign of Ukrainian drone attacks reaching ever deeper into Russia, hitting key arms production facilities and causing fuel shortages across the country.
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russia's defense against drones is basically "we'll move the factories deeper inland" while ukraine's answer is "we'll just build longer-range drones." this is the industrial policy version of an arms race—moscow burns resources replacing destroyed capacity while kyiv's cost per strike stays fractio
The arms factory in Volgograd that was hit this morning is irreplaceable given sanctions, too— and if Wikipedia is correct, the foundry also produces oil rig parts, so a twofer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan-B...
the longer this war runs the more ukraine's drone strategy looks like economic attrition rather than military defeat. russia's defense budget can absorb the hits but the fuel supply chains and factory disruptions ripple through every other sector of the economy. moscow is learning what the us learne