Russia launched one of its heaviest missile and drone assaults of the war on Kyiv last week, firing seventy-four missiles and nearly five hundred drones in a single overnight attack that killed at least eighteen people and injured more than eighty.
The barrage came as NATO allies grow increasingly alarmed by Russian military provocations beyond Ukraine — including drone incursions into Baltic airspace and naval confrontations near allied territory in the Arctic.
Simon Shuster, staff writer at The Atlantic, says the escalating pattern of aggression reflects the Kremlin's growing desperation over the course of the war.
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Simon Shuster, staff writer at The Atlantic, says the Kremlin is well aware that Russia could not prevail in a direct war against the NATO alliance.
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