Author: Taras Kuzio / Eurasia Daily Monitor

Ukraine’s strikes on military targets deep within Russian territory have picked up in recent months (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, Part I). Overnight on April 23 and 24, Ukrainian drones attacked and set ablaze oil refineries in Smolensk, Voronezh and Lipetsk (Ukrainska Pravda, April 24). In the first half of April alone, Ukraine attacked energy facilities...

Two years ago, on February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched what he termed a “special military operation” (SVO) against Ukraine. This was the first full-scale invasion of a European country since World War II, though the invasion truly began eight years earlier with the invasion of the Donbas and the illegal annexation of...