Oliver Carroll
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Aug
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These things happen in Ukraine.
Not so much leaves on the line as exploding ordnance around the train.
But as it arrived, we hear these ballistic missiles going off all around the station.
You see drones, you see lasers tracking them.
When we eventually get the go-ahead to leave, this is about an hour later, the train is already two hours late.
We were actually very lucky.
It was the last train which was allowed to leave the station.
But I think that sort of story tells you a little bit about the kind of air war this has become for people living in Ukraine and especially the capital, Kyiv.
Yeah, I think it's useful perhaps to think of the attacks on Russia as sort of a political messaging.
Because in the main, these Ukrainian drones, they're far less powerful than the combined Russian ballistic cruise drone attacks.
There are exceptions when interceptions and electronic warfare mean they go into buildings.
But generally speaking, they're not really affecting civilian buildings that much.
It's a political message.
In Ukraine, what you're seeing is, first of all, less of these attacks, but more intense when they happen.
So the Russians are stockpiling their missiles.
They're sending all they can in a quick series of strikes.
So, for example, one year ago, 200 or 300 drones coming into Kiev would be considered an excessive night.
Now 700 is pretty ordinary.
And when you're combining this with the huge power that you have with Russian ballistic missiles, new hypersonic quasi-ballistic missiles, anti-ship missiles, that they're increasing the amount they can launch in a night and they're perfecting this opera.
This is becoming very hard to defend against, and it's all increasingly concentrated on the capital.
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