DEEP STRIKE: While the West anxiously watches the cautious advance of Ukrainian ground forces in the south, Kyiv is demonstrating its expanding capability to hit Russia on its home turf.
Overnight yesterday, Ukraine unleashed a swarm of more than 20 homemade drones against Russia’s Pskov airfield, located more than 370 miles northwest of Moscow, near the country’s borders with Estonia and Latvia, successfully destroying at least two and possibly as many as four Russian Il-76 cargo planes, which could be seen burning on the tarmac. Two other planes appeared damaged, including a Tu-22 Backfire long-range bomber.
“These airfield attacks, which target aircraft as well as airfield infrastructure such as fuel installations, have military utility,” Ryan said. “Not only does it destroy capability, the attacks force a Russian reassessment of their air defense resources. Importantly, it could force redeployment of Russian air force assets further from Ukraine, limiting their utility.”
The shift in tone is evident in recent private and public pronouncements, including statements yesterday from a senior State Department official, Gehrke reported. “We need to finish this job,” the official said. “It’s in our fundamental interest to see and have Ukraine maintain its territorial integrity and for Europe to maintain its stability as our largest trading partner ...
US: MOSCOW SEEKING WEAPONS, RAW MATERIAL FROM PYONGYANG: The U.S. has declassified intelligence which it says shows Russia and North Korea are “actively advancing” negotiations for Pyongyang to replenish Moscow’s depleted ammunition stocks. A video of the speech by Seyed Mousavian, Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University, sparked outrage when it was first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.
“Not only an Iranian regime stooge, but publicly celebrates active plots to kill US officials,” Goldberg posted. “Congress should censure and carefully review what command discretionary funds can be restricted immediately.”
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