Ukrainian drone attack in Russia: kyiv “moves the war to Russian territory”, its “essential objective”, according to Guillaume Ancel

Eleven Ukrainian drones were destroyed over the Moscow region, and 45 in total across the country, on Wednesday, Russian authorities said.

Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region on Wednesday, August 21 “corresponds to what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described a few days ago, they are moving the war to Russian territory,” says Guillaume Ancel, a former officer, speaking to franceinfo. “This is, in my opinion, the essential objective of the Ukrainians today, to show this boomerang side: what the Russians have been doing to the Ukrainians for 30 months, they are getting back at them.”he analyzes.

It is also “put an additional stone in the negotiations that the Ukrainians are currently conducting”according to the war chronicler, author of Saint-Cyr, at the school of the Great Mute, “to obtain authorization to use the weapons supplied to them by the 54 countries that support them beyond the border and the border zone.”

“We can clearly see that the West is afraid to let the Ukrainians strike deeply”he analyzes, “and there, with this wave of drones, the Ukrainians want above all to show that, of course, they can do it, and that they must stop having one hand tied behind their back to fight against Russia, which is four times more powerful than Ukraine.”

If Moscow is having difficulty repelling this offensive, it is because the country is “faced with a dilemma”according to Guillaume Ancel. “Their best military units are in Donbass where they are advancing inexorably despite frightening losses.he continues. Do they recover some of these units to come and stop the Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region, more than 700 kilometers away, and take the risk of a Ukrainian counterattack if they weaken the front, or do they continue acting as if they did not see the Ukrainian operation? This is what Putin is currently doing.”