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Today on Ukraine: The Latest, the panel analyses the drone attacks on Moscow, dive into issues around Ukraine’s food security, and hears from our Brussels Correspondent Joe Barnes regarding a a military funeral he attended in Kyiv.
Our Russia Correspondent, Nataliya Vasilyeva, unpacks the significance of Rublyovka, one of the drone strike sites:
This is the place where Russia’s richest man have their summer houses and all-year mansions; at least one of these drones crushed in a prestigious cottage community where Putin’s billionaire friend Arkady Rotenberg lives.
Interestingly, we’ve seen Russian nationalist bloggers open gloating over the attack. To them, it’s the moment when they see that the war is finally affecting those upper-middle-class types who wouldn’t ‘give a fig’ about it. There’s one quite popular military blogger who specifically mentioned that it’s probably the first time in the 15 months of war that Muscovites have to forget about the smoothies and scooters and actually face the reality of a war.
Later on, Brussels Correspondent Joe Barnes describes his experience of relentless missile strikes on Kyiv:
I was asleep in my hotel room, then the sirens blared. It woke me up from my snooze at about 3am. And then about half an hour later as I was tossing and turning in my bed, there was this loud explosion; huge. It was enough to shake the windows of my hotel.
It’s nothing more than an attempt to strike terror into the Ukrainians having to live this day after day.
Nataliya offers her thoughts on the significance of the strikes:
There’s nothing striking about the fact that a country that has been waging a brutal war on its neighbour for 15 months is getting a taste of its own medicine, although it’s at a very low scale of that. It will be interesting to see if the public reactions changes; Russians have been very apathetic about what’s happening, trying to push the war from their own worldview.
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