On Tuesday, Ukraine launched a major drone attack on Russia that targeted Moscow and several other Russian regions, killing at least one civilian.
The civilian who was killed was a 46-year-old woman in Ramenskoye, a town in the Moscow Oblast. Moscow Governor Andrei Vorobyov said she died when the debris of a Ukrainian drone that was downed by Russian air defenses hit her high-rise apartment building.
Vorobyov said a total of two apartment buildings were hit, setting fire to several apartments. According to an Al Jazeera reporter in Moscow, 12 people were injured by the attack. The incident marked the largest Ukrainian attack on Moscow of the war.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that its air defenses downed a total of 144 Ukrainian drones, including 20 over Moscow and 72 over the Bryansk Oblast. According to TASS, no casualties or infrastructure damage were reported in other Russian regions.
The Ukrainian drone attack comes as Russia has stepped up its missile and drone bombardments targeting infrastructure across Ukraine. Russia escalated its attacks following the August 6 Ukrainian invasion of Russia’s Kursk Oblast.
Ukraine is pushing hard for the Biden administration to allow it to use US-provided missiles to launch long-range strikes inside Russia. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin appeared to throw cold water on the idea last week, but Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that the president hasn’t ruled it out.
Not a good idea to poke the bear! LITTERALLY!
This tragic drone attack is another illustration of why Russia can't win sn asymmetric war against Ukraine. I assume Russia will eventually be able to conquer the Donbas. But centuries of subjugation bred a Ukrainian resistance movement that simply won't quit. The Ukrainians will continue to fight even if they lose the Donbas, perhaps in a guerrilla war if the army is overwhelmed by Russia. This drone attack illustrates that unless Russia captures and occupies all of Ukraine the Ukrainians will continue to fight back even if Russia occupies the Donbas. Eventually Russia will have to leave Ukraine. Putin was blinded by Russian chauvinism and had no idea of the resistance the Russians would encounter when they invaded Ukraine.
The "president" (Joe, you know) controls nothing.