Kassie Corelli
Ukrainian drones attacked Yekaterinburg, a city located deep inside Russia, for the first time on April 25. The attack damaged a high-rise apartment building (DW Russkaya Sluzhba, April 25). From the start of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin framed the war as a “special operation,” a geographically limited endeavor that the majority of Russians could ignore while continuing normal life (Kommersant, May 26, 2023). Now, however, it is virtually impossible for the average person to distance themselves from Putin’s war against Ukraine as armed conflict increasingly spills onto Russian territory.
Even stalwart supporters of Russia’s war against Ukraine admit that “there is no longer a rear area,” the “Special Military Operation” did not achieve its goals, and huge numbers of Russians have died (YouTube/@Borovskih, April 28). At the end of March, loyalist military expert Rustem Klupov said that the number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) striking Russia increased 250 percent since the beginning of the year (Biznes Online, March 28).
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