Professor Michael C. Horowitz

And that can go on one of these one-way attack drones that can then really accurately target military sites, critical infrastructure, the sorts of resources that Russia needs to be able to continue the fight against Ukraine.

Absolutely.

And this war has now gone on longer than World War II.

This is one of the longest wars in Russian history.

And after being promised a quick win initially in 2022, Russia is now losing territory to Ukraine.

Their economy is being pummeled.

And key military and infrastructure sites in big population centers are being accurately targeted.

So that really has to increase the sort of threat perceptions in the Russian people and decrease how good they're feeling about the war.

And it really changes the dynamics for Ukraine to be able to bring the pain almost directly to Putin.

It shows that, you know, Russia is not invincible and that Ukraine in some ways can deliver that sort of punishment a lot more accurately targeted than the missiles that Russia launches.

So it's not just the drones in and of themselves.

It's using the drones alongside other kinds of military capabilities.

Ukraine essentially has developed the ability in the short range

to essentially create a kill zone where anytime Russian forces, tanks, et cetera, are moving, then has the ability to hit that next echelon further back, the kinds of forces that Russia is massing to try to attack in Ukraine.

So then disabling the command and control systems that Russian forces within Ukraine need to make advances.

And Ukraine's commander in chief suggested that they've recaptured more than 600 square kilometers over the last several months.

These are the first territorial gains that Ukraine has really made since 2023 and illustrates that this war is far from over.

We live now in an era of precise mass where that pairs essentially that precision guidance that we associated with warfare over the last 20 years with the ability to do mass attacks.

And we saw signs of this, frankly, in the Middle East from the Houthis when they were launching $10,000 flying lawnmowers.

at US forces in the Red Sea.