Siobhan O'Grady reports:
Assessments that Ukraine has reached a turning point in the conflict with Russia may well prove premature. But the towering dome of black smoke that hung over Moscow this week after a Ukrainian drone onslaught showed that Kyiv still has plenty of cards to play, no matter President Trump’s earlier appraisal of its prospects in the war.
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hand was made clear as he moved to seize the initiative both militarily and diplomatically.
The strikes on Moscow left part of the city’s biggest oil refinery in flames. An immense blast sent the top of a fuel storage vessel soaring into the air — and literally blew the roof off the idea that Russia could continue to shield Muscovites from the war. [emphasis added]
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