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Ukraine Invasion Day 1,070: 'the war should have been over last Wednesday' [1]

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Date: 2025-01-27

Russian forces conducted a series of drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of January 26 to 27.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 104 Shahed and decoy drones from Oryol and Kursk oblasts; Millerovo, Rostov Oblast; Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai; and occupied Cape Chauda, Crimea.[56] The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces downed 57 drones over Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts; that 39 decoy drones were "lost," likely due to Ukrainian electronic warfare (EW) interference; and that Russian forces struck infrastructure and residences in Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Kyiv oblasts.

The Ukrainian General Staff reported on January 26 that the Ukrainian forces struck drone and thermobaric warhead storage warehouses, causing secondary detonations.[1] The Ukrainian General Staff reported that the strike destroyed over 200 Shahed drones. Oryol Oblast Governor Andrei Klychkov claimed on January 26 that Ukrainian forces repeatedly attempted to strike Oryol Oblast and that Russian electronic warfare (EW) interference downed a Ukrainian drone in Oryol Oblast.[2] Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation Head Lieutenant Andriy Kovalenko stated that Ukrainian forces struck the same drone storage facility at the end of December 2024.[3]

I want to start with a mea culpa. Like many people I’ve been looking for signs of what Trump might do about the war, when it was revealed that he was speaking through his—-elbow—-about quickly ending it. Needless to say I’ve been looking for anything hopeful. The greatest concern for me, as I talked about two weeks ago, was that much of his thinking comes straight from the Russian playbook. When he describes why he believes the war started, or outlines his views on ranged fire into Russia—he speaks the Putin-inspired narrative about the role of NATO in causing the former and the risks of escalation if the latter occurs.

I’ve been looking for any signs that he might be breaking free from Russian reflexive control. Twelve days ago I wrote that the most hopeful sign would be if Trump understood that Russia was much weaker than he, and most other had earlier assumed.

Well, this week it seemed that that message had gotten through to him. In a series of statements and tweets, he started pushing the narrative that the war needed to be ended because Russia was not doing well. I think this tweet might have been the most fascinating—and it caused a real stir in Davos when it came out. People even read it out loud at meetings as some delphic proclamation of US policy.

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