Ukraine’s spectacular drone strikes rattled Trump and Putin

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1. Ukraine’s [bold attacks targeting key assets](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/russian-strikes-on-kyiv-kill-four-days-after-moscow-vowed-to-retaliate-3733963?ico=in-line_link) in Moscow’s war effort have struck a nerve with Russia – which launched another deadly missile and drone attack overnight.

   Bombs hit Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, killing four people and wounding 20, authorities said. But Ukraine fired back – hitting a [Russian](https://inews.co.uk/topic/russia?ico=in-line_link) fuel depot situated near to a strategic bomber airbase.

   In pictures across social media, the Engels oil refinery, based in the Saratov Oblast in the west of the country was engulfed in flames.

   It comes after Kyiv carried out a large underwater explosion aimed at the crucial road and rail bridge linking the Russian-held Crimean peninsula to mainland Russia on Tuesday, causing damage to its underwater foundations.

   This followed the audacious “Operation Spider’s Web” drone attacks on Moscow’s strategic bomber fleet over the weekend that saw a number of Vladimir Putin’s aircraft wiped out. Ukraine claims that it targeted 41 strategic bombers in the operation, adding that “at least” 13 were destroyed. Security officials say the shock incursion took 18 months to plan and saw many drones smuggled into Russia.

   Videos of the explosions that flooded social media were striking and Kyiv’s degrading of Russia’s war machine sends a message that is hard to overlook. But experts still aren’t convinced the attacks will shift the balance of the war in a substantial way.

   “There’s always been this sort of underestimation of the Ukrainians. And each time the Ukrainians do this, it makes the Russians sit up and think again,” said John Foreman, associate fellow at Chatham House and former UK defence attaché to Moscow and Kyiv.

2. Its highlighted that Donald Trump big beautiful and very expensive Golden Dome can’t protect against modern innovative warfare. The Golden Dome idea is like something from the 1960s.

3. I think both sides want to continue the conflict. It’s like when 2 drunks fighting are pulled apart but they still wanna go at each other.

   Let them get it out of their system I guess. At this point I don’t know what to tell them. Neither of them value human life too much.

4. Trumps exact words on the matter “badass”

5. Spider Web was a wakeup call that war has fundamentally changed. All major players now realize that many of their uber-expensive core their assets are sitting ducks to what are essentially off the shelf weapons. Drones are just getting better, smarter, longer range and more difficult to intercept or stop at a furious rate. Defence against them appears to not be improving at the same rate. This makes sense as you need to defend against every possible type of attack. In attack, you only need to find one vulnerability. Russia, at the moment, cannot fully protect those assets and it will likely become more difficult for them – and other powers as well.

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