Luke Harding
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Today in Focus · Russia threatens UK over supplying drones to Ukraine — The Latest · 18 Aug 2026
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This is the Guardian.
I think the Russians are rattled.
They hear drones.
And if they peer out the window, they can see it.
That these are sort of supplemental drones, which are clearly very effective, and from the UK, and as you say, have obviously infuriated the Kremlin.
So we have to read this as trolling, there will be consequences.
There's nothing new here.
The Russian Embassy specializes in trolling.
Ukraine has launched one of its biggest ever long range drone strikes uh against targets in Russia, specifically in the Moscow region.
We're thinking about eight hundred drones, possibly more, and residents there woke up about five AM to see drones weaving through apartment blocks, smoke on the horizon, um and various targets here.
We we think one of them was the Moscow oil refinery.
Which has been hit before.
Uh, the mayor of Moscow says most of these drones were shot down, but some clearly did explode.
And we think that one uh other target was a warehouse belonging to Wildberries, uh, Russia's answer to Amazon, um, which was hit or badly damaged.
Um, and so I think what's interesting about this is is that the Ukrainian campaign to cripple the Russian economy.
Uh so the Cranic can no longer fund its war continues wi with I would say kind of pretty visible success.
Well, what we've seen over the last six, nine, twelve months is that Ukraine has been building up its own sort of domestic drone making capacity, its military um industrial complex.
Uh and it's got units of Ukrainian soldiers who crisscross the Ukrainian countryside and and fire these drones, launch these drones into Russia every evening.
I mean I watched them myself.
recently fr from a sunflower field in a secret location in in central Ukraine and it's incredibly
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