Anne Applebaum

And the Ukrainians can see everything in it because of their extraordinary, the literally millions of drones that they've built in the last couple of years.

They have reconnaissance drones.

They have short-range drones, long-range drones.

They can see the whole front line.

And every time any Russian truck or car or person comes into the zone, they see that person and they can hit them.

And these huge numbers of people dying.

Yeah.

a thousand a day, 30,000 a month, are dying or being wounded, are coming from the fact that despite the existence of this zone, the Russians have, until now, continued sending people in it.

And, you know, even at the beginning of this year and late last year,

By doing that, they were able to move it forward a little bit.

They were, you know, so many resources were being thrown into it that they were still moving.

That has now stopped completely.

They cannot move forward.

And actually, in the last couple of months, they've lost.

So there is a it's not what I would call like a huge counteroffensive, at least not yet.

It could be.

But the Russians are are not able to move.

And that has happened at the same time as Ukraine's long-range drones, which I've been in factories where they make them.

They're like little mini airplanes.

They're not what you think of.