Oliver Carroll

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The Intelligence from The Economist · What price victory? Ukraine on the front foot · 27 May 2026 podcast

I mean to make it more would require structural changes which you just can't bring about quickly.

Now already it's showing thirty five thousand wounded and killed per month.

And Russia has far less to show for these numbers than at any time before.

I was speaking to uh presidential advisor, Brigadier General Pavlo Palisa, and he was saying that they're at least two years behind what are already scaled back timetables for taking the rest of Donbass, which I find listeners is the main political and military aim of Vladimir Putin at this point.

Well, I think it's a combination.

First of all, Russia were basically front loading an awful lot of their attacks in an attempt to show their might on the Ukrainian side, there's a new team at the Ministry of Defence.

And that's really turbocharged the change in the last few months there.

More broadly, really key at the moment is the success they're having in extended range drone operations.

And by that I mean

On the one hand, what we'd call intermediate range between twenty kilometers up to a couple of hundred kilometers.

And that's really hitting Russian supply lines, radars, ammunition dumps, and so on.

And then we're looking at also

Great success going thousands of kilometers inside Russia, hitting its defense industries, particular targets in the oil and gas industry.

I've been speaking to commanders in charge of these units and they predict a full-on air defense crisis for Russia by the autumn.

And by that point, it's anticipated that Ukraine's own ballistic program will be in line with

And it's going to get very ugly in Russia.

Ukraine's also benefiting from new lines of European cash.

Now remember up until the departure of Viktor Orban, there was a big question mark as to whether there would be consensus in the EU.

Well that's gone, and his departure's cleared the way for a long promised ninety billion.

Yes, and I mean the strikes on Saturday, Sunday morning really shows just the vulnerabilities which remain in Ukraine.

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