Gordon Chang
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 23 May
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Yeah, absolutely.
I think right now is a really fascinating time to be covering this war.
A lot of attention has been diverted away from the war in Ukraine, particularly as the war in the Middle East keeps going on.
But there's actually a lot of really interesting things going on, not only on the battlefield, but also domestically in Russia and economically as well.
I guess maybe I'll start with the battlefield because I think that's the most kind of predominant area to discuss here.
But really, since the beginning of this year, we've seen the Ukrainians make pretty tactically significant advances, and they've been able to liberate some territory.
So kind of the two predominant areas coming to mind, there's going to be an area in southern Ukraine in what's called the Oleksandrivka direction.
This is kind of near the Dnipropetrovsk region and Zaporizhia region.
And so the Ukrainians were able to liberate a couple hundred square kilometers of territory here, which was really significant.
And then there's also an area up in northeastern Ukraine that the Ukrainians have been liberating for a couple months now.
Started in the winter of last year in this town called Kupyansk.
And so we can get into this more later.
But the Russians really continue to claim that they hold the city, even though there's really no evidence to support that claim at all.
But no, things are definitely seem to be shifting.
Drone warfare right now, we're even seeing some of the Russian sources themselves complain just about every single day on like Telegram that the Ukrainians are just really overwhelming the Russians with their drones, both in terms of quantity and quality.
So a lot of shifts going on right now on the battlefield for sure.
Yeah, so I think to answer that question, it's helpful for us to kind of break down the different levels of drone strikes that we're seeing.
So there's kind of tactical frontline strikes.
We've seen the Russians and Ukrainians kind of battle back and forth for about the past year in the mid-range strikes.
The Ukrainians sometimes call them middle-range strikes.
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