Ukraine’s escalating air attacks bring Putin’s invasion home to Russia
Ukraine’s escalating air attacks bring Putin’s invasion home to Russia
Ukraine has begun 2025 with a series of increasingly ambitious long-range air attacks against strategic military and industrial targets that are succeeding in bringing Putin’s invasion home to Russia, writes Maria Avdeeva.
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I mean you definitely hear more about it. And by the way didn't they just recently get permission to use Western weapons to attack Russian territory? I'd say that's escalating (but not an escalation of the conflict as a whole as you pointed out).
That's due to the fact of having homegrown cruise and ballistic missiles now, so posturing about usage of western weapons have no point. (There was no point ot start with, russia will tell tales about f35 killing 78 children with it tracks and nuclear artillery anyway) So this phase was semi-inevitable.
❓ What's your definition of escalation?
Neither severity nor scale of the conflict risen, destruction of kursk npp in kurchatov would be a slight escalation, to be honest unless anyone starts to use WMD and/or huge area denial techniques (like dropping tons of chloride trifluoride on enemy territory every day) it won't be escalation of this war.