While they haven't caused much physical damage, bringing the drone campaign to Moscow “blows holes in Russia’s narrative that the war on Ukraine is successful and that it is being prosecuted far away from any consequences for the Russian people themselves," said Keir Giles, a Russia expert at the Chatham House think tank in London.
Drone attacks in Moscow's glittering business district leave residents on edge
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Giles, of Chatham House, said the deployment was about “cementing Putin’s control over Belarus” and did not offer Moscow any military advantage over placing them in Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad that borders Poland and Lithuania.
Bluffing or not, Putin's declared deployment of nuclear weapons to Belarus ramps up saber-rattling
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