Key Points
Several times over the past three months, swarms of as many as 150 Ukrainian drones flew hundreds of miles into Russia, slamming into missile storage facilities, strategic fuel reservoirs, military airfields and defense plants..
Yet, Ukrainian officials and some of their Western backers increasingly see the pain that long-range attacks inflict as a game-changer that could force President Vladimir Putin into negotiating an acceptable peace..
While the U.S. and its allies have allowed Ukraine to fight with Western weapons in Russias border regions, such as Kursk, they have repeatedly denied Zelenskys requests to hit more remote Russian targets, such as military airfields, with ATACMS or Storm Shadow missiles that had been provided to Kyiv..
Its attacks on the Russian Black Sea Fleet, and naval drone strikes on the port of Novorossiysk, have led to informal understandings that allowed last years reopening of Odesa, Ukraines main port, to international shipping..
Serhiy Sternenko, a Ukrainian fundraiser who is providing drones to the military, pointed out that Western sanctions on Russian oil exports arent being properly enforced, and that oil sales to nations such as India provide Putin with critical funds for the war..
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