Ukraine’s 40-day mis­sile and drone blitz heaps pres­sure and pain on Putin

When Ukrain­ian Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Zelen­sky announced last week that his mil­i­tary would be under­tak­ing a 40-day cam­paign to ham­mer Russ­ian mil­i­tary and ener­gy infra­struc­ture deep­er inland from the bor­der, the con­cept did not feel mate­ri­al­ly dif­fer­ent from his usu­al stream of war updates. Now, a lit­tle over a week since the long-range mis­siles and drones began rain­ing down, the suc­cess­ful dis­rup­tion of ene­my logis­tics is becom­ing dif­fi­cult to ignore.Zelensky announced on Wednes­day a sec­ond suc­cess­ful strike on the Ufa oil facil­i­ty, one of Russia’s largest …