Just ahead of crucial peace talks in Istanbul, Ukraine launched an audacious attack sending hundreds of drones deep into the Russian territory and supposedly destroying nearly one third of the Russian air force fleet, including nuclear-powered bombers. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky affirmed that ‘Operation Spider Web’, as it has been termed, was a ‘brilliant’ strategic move that will undoubtedly be in the ‘history books’ and had been planned eighteen months ago. He asserted that it was a purely Ukrainian effort, probably to save his western neighbours from reprisals by the Kremlin. Zelensky’s other message was undoubtedly to US President Donald Trump, who had a nasty faceoff with the Ukrainian leader in the Oval Office.........

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