Putin's drone onslaught is a stark wake-up call for UK & Europe to a new era of warfare
28 May 2025, 07:16
By Karl Rosander
Putin’s savage drone attack should be a wake-up call to the UK & Europe - this kind of warfare could come to other countries next.
Over the past few days, Russian Premier Vladimir Putin has launched the biggest drone attack since the start of the war, with 900 drones launched on targets in Ukraine including the capital Kyiv over consecutive nights.
It follows a similar attack just over a week before, which also saw hundreds of drones launched on Ukrainian targets with some hitting civilian targets.
This latest attack needs to be the definitive wake-up call to Western nations; We may think that what happens in Ukraine is a distant issue that only affects one country, but the conflict there has tragically become a testing ground for the war of the future and what finds grim success there will no doubt be replicated on battlefields for decades to come.
Drones and indiscriminate tech-based warfare are now a staple of the 21st century battlefield and NATO countries not centring their defence capabilities on........
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