Oliver Carroll
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first heard Jul 2026
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Right.
So at the beginning of July, you saw Zelenskyy announce this 40-day intensification of drone operations.
Basically, 40 days in Russia is the period after death when basically the soul departs.
So it was essentially saying that Putin was already dead and it was a matter of him reckoning with that.
Obviously, quite cheeky.
The attacks on Russia are serious, but it's really the mid-range drone operation, which is between sort of 20 and 200 kilometers.
That's really the defining trend of this summer.
And basically, the drones are coming online now in numbers, in types.
and using this Starlink satellite technology, which Russia basically can't use anymore after Elon Musk removed their right to use it, in the occupied territories.
And that's given Ukraine a huge advantage in precision weapons.
And it's been able to use that to create these...
Maybe chokeholds is too strong a word, but pressure on the supply lines coming into Crimea.
And that's an issue for Putin.
That's the new story of this summer.
But at the same time, there is still fierce fighting going on along the front line in the Donbass fortress belt.
And the mix match between that 40 days rhetoric and the more nuanced picture on the front lines, that's political theater.
So, yes, drone interceptors, the Ukrainians are doing much better on.
They intercept roughly 95% of the drones coming in, which is an amazing statistic.
The real problem you're sort of referring to is the anti-ballistic interceptors.
And the problem here is there is a huge mix match between the global production of anti-ballistic missiles and the production of Russian missiles.
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