Russian missiles and Iranian-supplied drones continue to slam into Ukrainian hospitals and apartment blocks with regularity.These are not precision strikes aimed at military targets; they are clumsy, often wildly inaccurate terror attacks designed to break the will of the Ukrainian people.In this, they echo the Nazi V-1 and V-2 "vengeance weapons" of 1944-45.
Those terror weapons killed thousands of civilians in London and Antwerp, but achieved little militarily.They also mirror the Luftwaffe’s Blitz on British cities in 1940.
The bombs fell — but British resolve only hardened.The same dynamic is playing out now in Ukraine.Every Russian strike on civilians strengthens Ukrainian determination to fight on.JEB BUSH PRAISES TRUMP FOR CRIPPLING IRAN’S MILITARY, BUT WARNS OF ‘THREAT’ TO US FROM REPORTED DRONES IN CUBAMeanwhile, Ukraine has seized the initiative with a weapon the Russians has yet to counter: massed, AI-enabled drones and long-range cruise missiles produced at scale and employed with laser-like focus for operational and strategic effect.Smoke and flames rise over Moscow on June 18, 2026, following a Ukrainian drone attack that hit the Kapotnya oil refinery and other targets in the Russian capital.
(East2West)Operationally, Ukrainian strikes have methodically dismantled Russian logistics across the southern theater from the Donbas approaches all the way to Crimea.Drone strikes on fuel convoys, ammunition trucks, rail hubs and bridges have created chronic shortages of fuel, water, ammunition and food for Russian troops.Reports from occupied Crimea and the southern land corridor document rationing, long lines at gas stations and mounting chaos.
Ukrainian strikes have effectively placed large portions of the Russian southern front under a logistics lockdown.DRONE OFFENSIVE HITS RUSSIAN OIL TANKERS AND REFINERIES AT 'INDUSTRIAL SCALE' AS MOSCOW BANS DIESEL EXPORTSWith supply lines under constant interdiction, half or more of Russia’s southern gro...