Yesterday we posted "Ukraine's Developing Deterrence" (Shulmaven: Ukraine's Developing Strategic Deterrence). Today the Financial Times published:
"Military briefing: Ukraine drone strikes show Russia it has ‘no safe zones’"
"Kyiv has for months urged its western allies to supply long-range missiles so it can hit Russian military bases far behind the front lines and puncture what Ukrainian military chief General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi has called the “sense of impunity that [Russia’s] physical remoteness provides”.
This week Kyiv showed it could conduct long-range strikes without western equipment after it launched locally made drones that hit three military bases deep inside Russia — one only 160km from Moscow."
The article provided new information on the abilty of Ukraine to increase the previously noted 1000 kilometer range of its drones to cover parts of Siberia. This means the critical Russian oil fields of Western Siberia are now in range making them vulnerable to incendiary attacks. The FT also noted the the Ukrainian drones are guided by older inertial navigation systems, though not as accurate as GPS, they are impervious to jamming. Moreover, RANE reported yesterday that Putin ordered the beefing up of air defenses for Russia's energy infrastructure.
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