Putin has recently begun to clearly demonstrate his intentions on the battlefield. The Russian army launched a ruthless wave of attacks with ballistic missiles on civilian infrastructure in Kev, aimed at stopping Ukraine’s military advances across the border and along the front lines.

This nightmare lasting a full 9 hours on August 19th and 20th was a dark air assault targeting civilians.

The operation was carried out with high destructive power missiles such as the Escander M, Zirkcon, and Onyx striking directly at the heart of the capital.

Even North Korean origin KN23 ballistic missiles and a full 168 Shahid kamicazi drones accompanied this attack.

The critical shortage of Patriot interceptors provided by allies to Ukraine unfortunately allowed some of these lethal missiles to reach their targets.

This move aimed to shake the balance of power on the front and inflict lasting damage on Ukraine’s critical logistics lines and morale infrastructure.

But Ukraine responded to Putin’s violence focused wartime stance with a rare and massive retaliation operation.

A vast operation was launched deep inside Russian territory along the front lines and around the annexed Crimean Peninsula and the Black Sea.

The Russian leader’s crown jewels, combat jets, shadow fleet vessels, and strategic radar systems were systematically targeted within just hours.

The success of this highly critical, simultaneous, and lethal operation was announced to the entire world by Ukraine’s commander of the unmanned systems forces, Robert Maguardy.

With this move, Ukraine proved in no uncertain terms that it would not remain solely on the defensive and that Russia’s strategic depth would become the new front of the war.

Everything began on the night of August 23rd to 24th, 2026. In other words, Keev waited only a few days to take revenge on Moscow.

Ukraine’s unmanned systems forces silently penetrated Russia’s rear operational depth and struck a total of 66 critical enemy targets.

Among these targets was a valuable MiG 29 fighter jet, one of the backbones of Russian aviation.

This jet stationed near the Dolena settlement on the grounds of the Millerovo air base in Rosttov Oblast could not escape Ukraine’s long range kamicazi drones.

The strike was carried out directly by the elite first separate center unit of Ukraine’s unmanned systems forces.

This operation entered the military records as the second Russian MiG 29 jet destroyed in just 2 days.

For just one day earlier on August 23rd, another MiG 29 along with a Sue33 fighter jet and an elite Orion reconnaissance drone had been turned into scrap at the Vitazbo base in Kranadar Cry by Ukraine’s unmanned systems.

Only 48 hours, two Russian combat jets. The jets providing air patrols over Russia’s southern airspace and tasked with hunting Ukraine’s drones were being hunted one by one right in their own backyard.

The destruction of these aircraft, which supplied air cover for Russia’s southern front, created a massive vulnerability for the Moscow regime.

The effects of the attack also spilled over to other Russian air force elements in the base area where the MiG 29 was hit.

Ukrainian drones even struck a KA52 alligator attack helicopter decoy used by the Russians for distraction at the same base, completely ignoring the enemy’s deception tactics.

Yet the horror of the operation was not limited to aerial targets. At the same hours, two Russian shadow fleet vessels sailing the dark waters of the Black Sea were placed on the target list.

These targets, a crude oil tanker and a bulk carrier, were the lifelines Russia used to evade global sanctions.

These elements of the maritime network that keep Russia’s oil revenues afloat and secretly transport military munitions to the occupied territories became the direct targets of Ukraine’s sea and air drones.

Thus, Ukraine once again proved the legal series of its famous MaloKa operations, which had sent dozens of Russian ships to the bottom during the summer months right in the heart of the Black Sea.

These vessels were tasked with providing critical military logistics to the occupied territories. This simultaneous strike carried out with unmanned systems dealt a very heavy blow to Russia’s military economy and the supply lines leading to Crimea.

Perhaps the most strategic and cleverly designed leg of the operation was aimed not so much at the ships at sea as it completely blinding the eyes of Russian air defense systems.

A total of four critical radar complexes in Rostov Oblast and occupied Crimea were blown skyhigh on the same night in Jerasan and Karachev.

Two Casta 2E2 mobile radars capable of detecting low-flying drones and cruise missiles amid dense clutter were destroyed.

A very important parenthesis must be opened here. KSTA 2E2 radars are the most sensitive three-dimensional sensors providing tactical early warning for short-range air defense units.

Therefore, the destruction of this radar is extremely critical for Russia. Immediately after the KSA 2 E2s were targeted, a Nebo SV radar station in Guovo that provides strategic early warning against ballistic targets from hundreds of kilometers away was hit.

The Nebo SV is a vital VHF early warning center that feeds targeting data over a vast area to strategic S300 and S400 missile batteries and can even track stealth aircraft.

Yet, this system too could not escape Ukraine’s attacks. In the Rosdulma area of Crimea, an ST68 radar complex became the target of Ukraine’s relentless drones.

This flawless operation carried out by the 9inth Cyros Battalion of Ukraine’s 414th Maguar’s Birds Brigade completely collapsed Russia’s southern air defense shield.

The simultaneous collapse of these radars left Russia’s S300 and S400 batteries in the region effectively blind.

By eliminating the radars, Ukraine opened a vast safe corridor for its own missiles, drones, and next generation combat aircraft.

On the same night that Russian jets, ships, and radars were struck, the arm of the operation shifted toward geostrategic bases.

The Stril Cove settlement in occupied Keran Oblast was also rocked by violent explosions. The Russian SOBR special rapid response police base stationed there was completely destroyed by the precise strikes of the drones.

This base was the nerve center of Russia’s security forces in the region. Its rapid reaction capacity and its apparatus of pressure against the occupied population.

Beneath the rubble of this base, not only elite police forces, but also Russia’s psychological superiority in the area perished.

Moreover, throughout the same night, a Russian drone school in occupied Zaparisia, a drone laboratory in Daesk, and underground shelters belonging to elite Zala reconnaissance drone teams in Crimea were blown up one after another.

Even the relay stations that provide communications for the Shahed Kamicazi drones the Russian army sends against Ukrainian cities were completely destroyed in this simultaneous wave.

In the occupied Zaparisia, Donetsk and Luhansk regions, a total of 11 different temporary enemy deployment points and heavy military equipment depots were consigned to the flames.

As a result of all these coordinated attacks, the Russian army was severely shaken in a single night in terms of air power, maritime logistics, early warning capability, and elite ground elements.

Ukraine by proving its deep strike capacity stretching hundreds of kilometers completely deprived the Russian army of any sense of security in the rear.

But Ukraine’s destructive strike operations will by no means stop here because important analyses and claims have emerged that two regions of far greater vital importance for Russia’s military logistics will soon come under the absolute fire control of the armed forces of Ukraine.

According to Bellarian local media, these regions are none other than Rosttov Oblast and Kranadar Cry, which will fully experience the fire nightmare that annexed Crimea is currently living through every day.

Former company commander of the Adar Battalion, Yavghi Deiki, made shocking statements. The commander stated that the Ukrainian army would place these two regions under fire control.

In military literature, this stage process of dominance over enemy territory is called opening the sky.

Ukraine has already begun the first stage of this process by systematically blinding and destroying radar stations and air defense batteries.

Once the enemy air defense is rendered ineffective and helpless, the second stage, establishing absolute fire control over the area comes into play.

Right now, the area around the Sea of Azov and the logistics routes that the Russians call so-called Novarosia are locked in the crosshairs of Ukraine like a sharpshooter.

Now, it is thought that the next targets of this relentlessly expanding layered fire control zone are the borders of Kranadar and Rostov.

According to military analysts and the former commander of the Adar Battalion, it may take only one or two months for these regions to come under the same unrelenting full fire pressure as Crimea.

Rosttov and Kranadar host the main logistics arteries and military command centers that feed Russia’s vast occupation forces in Ukraine.

These two areas are not just ordinary regions. These cities are the main arteries through which ammunition and manpower are pumped to Russia’s southern front.

The complete placement of Kranadar, historically Ukrainian Kuban, and Rostov, which borders the occupied territories, under fire control could mean that the hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers on the front are left without ammunition, fuel, or supplies.

Moreover, the complete opening of the sky over these regions to Ukraine means that the entire supply chain of the Russian army becomes an open target for UAVs and cruise missiles.

It is now being openly discussed that the rear lines inside Russia’s own borders will turn into the hot and bloody zone of the war itself.

This situation could trigger a strategic military crisis severe enough to completely collapse Moscow’s war plans and logistics flow.

So, can the Ukrainians really force a nuclear power as vast as Russia into such a destructive scenario?

In a Ukrainian war environment where drone warfare has advanced to such a critical level, this is by no means impossible.

The latest figures published by the Russian Ministry of Defense itself reveal the scale of the helplessness and shock into which Moscow has fallen.

According to official Russian data, Ukraine launched a full 8,477 unmanned aerial vehicles against targets inside Russia in just a single week.

Moreover, this mind-boggling massive figure was accompanied by domestically produced Flamingo cruise missiles capable of reaching a range of 3,000 km and carrying 1,150 kg warheads.

This terrifying density represents the largest long range strike wave a state has ever carried out outside its own borders since the beginning of the war.

For years, Putin relied on Russia’s vast geography and territory, viewing the country’s economic infrastructure as beyond Ukraine’s reach.

Russian military doctrine was built on the illusion that the farther an industrial plant or refinery was from Ukraine, the safer it was.

Yet, this wave of 8,477 drones proved that Russia’s vaunted strategic depth had in fact turned into its most indefensible weakness.

What matters to military experts is not how many of these drones Russian air defense stopped, but how many reached their targets and unleashed hell.

For example, on the night of August 21st to 22nd, the massive Ozan logistics complex in the city of Chapaysk in the Samara region met this reality in an attack by Ukrainian drones.

This 135,000 meter giant facility of vital importance to the Russian economy and civilian supply chain was reduced to ashes amid thick black smoke.

FP1 kamicazi drones belonging to the Ukrainian manufacturer Firepoint struck Ozon’s massive center and paralyzed the e-commerce network.

It led to the emergency evacuation of more than 500 employees and the halt of operations.

This strategy, a larger continuation of earlier attacks on Wildberries facilities, aims to permanently sever Russia’s civilian-looking military logistics arteries.

This unprecedented attack show that Ukraine is now flawlessly striking not only military bases, but also the logistics infrastructure that keeps Russia’s wartime economy afloat.

Armies survive not only on weapons and ammunition, but on flawlessly functioning logistics. And Ukraine is now focused precisely on paralyzing that system.

Not every product in an e-commerce warehouse may be direct military equipment. Yet, in a war economy, the collapse of logistics capacity strikes the soldier on the front directly.

In other words, the character of the war is changing and the Ukrainian army is increasingly attacking the mobile systems and distribution networks that keep Russia standing.

On the same day as the operation against this logistics facility, the Noble Quebec oil processing complex again in the Samara region was set ablaze as the target of Ukrainian drones.

This massive Roseneft facility, which processes millions of tons of raw material annually, was one of the main hearts supplying the jet fuel and diesel flowing through the veins of the Russian army.

The attrition strategy Ukraine is conducting here is working in an extremely clear, clever, and ruthless manner.

The fundamental goal is not to destroy the Russian oil reserves underground, but to eliminate the sensitive processing units that turn that oil into usable fuel for tanks and jets.

Russia’s vast oil can remain underground, but armies do not fight with crude oil. They fight with processed and refined jet fuel.

Therefore, the Luke oil perfintes refinery, a full 1,500 km behind the front line, became the merciless target of the drones.

At the PERM facility, which has an annual oil processing capacity of 13 million tons, the critical CDU4 unit that alone accounts for 40% of capacity was struck, triggering a production crisis that will last for weeks.

The strike on the Perm facility proved that the war has reached even the deepest and supposedly safest regions of Russia.

If a country has thousands of kilome of territory behind the front line, distance usually provides a protective shield for logistics.

It gives commanders ample time to detect threats, move equipment safely, and operate factories without constant fear of attack.

Yet, Ukraine’s growing long range drone capacity is slowly and ruthlessly eliminating this geographic advantage that Russia possesses.

Russian air defense does not have the numerical strength or technological density to protect such a vast continental territory equally at every point.

The Moscow leadership is now forced to decide what is most important with the limited systems it has and to make hard choices.

Military airfields, munitions factories, oil refineries, command centers, and ports all require urgent protection at the same time.

Yet, the number of Russian air defense systems is limited. And a battery pulled to protect one place leaves another strategic facility undefended.

It is possible to stop a single unmanned aerial vehicle with air defense systems. Stopping dozens of drones is an extremely difficult matter, but thousands mean the paralysis of the entire defense network and the collapse of the system.

Ukraine is forcing Russia to spend enormous sums and make strategic protection priorities with its relatively cheap and mass-roduced domestic drones.

This is a strategic dilemma. Ukraine does not need to overcome Russian air defense everywhere.

It only needs to thin the system by spreading it over a wide area. In fact, Russia’s strategic collapse is showing itself not only in the airspace and logistics facilities, but also in the army’s human resources in a horrific way.

According to the latest intelligence reports published by the Wall Street Journal, the average lifespan of a Russian soldier is rapidly shortening because of the constantly increasing drone attacks on the front.

And Moscow is experiencing a major nightmare in finding new soldiers. They are in such a deep deadlock and personnel shortage that officials from St.

Petersburg to the Kiningrad exclave on the Baltic Sea have begun urgent preparations for a new creeping mobilization.

The Russian army is now trying to force into service under various false pretenses even older men who have never served, who received no military training at universities, who have chronic health problems, and who are well past the age of 40 using document verification pretexts.

According to data from the independent Lavvada Center, 62% of the Russian population supports an immediate transition to peace talks.

While the Kremlin regime continues to force both the elderly and the young into this death mill on the front.

For the Russian people, this war had until yesterday been experienced largely only through television broadcasts and distant news from the front.

Now violent explosions, siren sounds, airport disruptions, and massive industrial fires are being lived deep inside the country in their own backyards.

Perm and Samara may be far from the Ukrainian borders on the map, yet they are now being mentioned alongside Ukraine’s long range kamicazi drones.

This situation is permanently changing the Russian public’s perception of distance regarding the war and making them feel that the front has actually reached their doorstep.

It is not only the people. The economic calculations of Russian businesses, oil companies, and logistics giants are also being radically altered.

An oil company must now evaluate not only production costs, but also air defense risks and when its facility will be hit.

Vladimir Putin can continue to send his soldiers to the front and tell his people that the country’s defense is functioning flawlessly.

Yet Ukraine is carrying the struggle beyond the battlefield directly into the heart of Russia’s industrial geography.

Valuable combat jets destroyed in a single night, sunken shadow ships, blinded radars, and massive fuel facilities left in flames are the most concrete proof of this.

In short, the final picture looks quite clear. The vast strategic depth that Russia regarded as its greatest advantage is now gradually turning into one of its greatest military weaknesses.

Because Ukraine is not merely destroying individual targets, it is fighting to render the entire infrastructure system that supports the Russian war machine inoperable.

In this new phase, geographic borders no longer matter at all. The conflict continues with all its ruthlessness in the sky, under the seas, and in the heart of refining facilities.

The war is no longer limited only to muddy trenches. It continues relentlessly in Russia’s backyard with thousands of drones in the sky.

So, what do you think about this? Can the Russian army produce a long-term solution against both this destructive UAV pressure that is increasing exponentially every day in the rear and the massive manpower shortage inside?

Or will this systematic military and economic collapse ultimately consume Moscow from within and drag it into an irreparable larger geopolitical rupture?

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