“Putin is in big trouble”
This week, the mayor of Moscow revealed that the capital had been confronted with “one of the most significant drone attacks” in its history. In a recent interview with the French media outlet La Dépêche du Midi, former officer and writer Guillaume Ancel looks back on this attack and its consequences.
The French writer, who has written extensively on military operations outside France (in Bosnia, Cambodia and Rwanda), claims that the Ukrainian drones sent to Moscow are “a fairly logical extension of the Ukrainian offensive against the Kursk region… In Kursk, they show Russia that the Russians can invade Ukraine, but that the opposite is also true, on a reduced scale, of course. Regarding the drone attack in Moscow specifically, I think it will be very difficult to know whether it caused damage or not. On another hand, what we do know is that when the Ukrainians hit energy infrastructures such as oil depots, they do very serious damage.”
As a result? “It puts Russia in much more difficulty than it makes people believe. Because there is an immediate impact on people’s lives, for example with the increase in the price of fuel. People see it and feel the consequences, it’s a major change. It also means that the war is also among Muscovites. This attack, by a dozen drones, means that it is becoming dangerous to live in Moscow.”
Guillaume Ancel emphasizes that a step has been taken and that this sudden attack is part of the desire to negotiate a just peace. “Ukraine is trying to have cards to negotiate effectively with Putin and not come in a spirit of capitulation.”
(MH with Manon Pierre - Source: La Dépêche - Picture: The Presidential Press and Information Office via Wikicommons under license Creative Commons CC BY 4.0)
