28/09/2026
The moment the strike hit the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was not simply another image from the war. It was another reminder of the reality in which Russia is systematically terrorizing Ukrainian cities.
During the years of the supposedly “weak” Biden administration, Russia also carried out massive strikes against Ukraine. But today, we are dealing with a different political environment — and, consequently, a different response from Washington.
Trump has not demonstrated the same willingness to expand military support for Ukraine or increase pressure on Russia through sanctions that the Biden administration did. Moreover, Trump has called on Ukraine to limit strikes against Russian oil infrastructure, justifying this position with arguments of his own.
For Ukraine, however, this is not about nostalgia for one American president over another.
The problem is something else: Russia is gaining more and more capacity to wage a war of attrition.
Russia could have carried out attacks on this scale before. It could have done far more. But it did not.
Now it is doing so.
And the answer is not to strike Russian civilians. Such attacks will not stop Russia's war against Ukraine. What matters far more is targeting the military infrastructure, production facilities, logistics, energy and financial capabilities that sustain Russia's war machine.
The central objective is to make sure Russia simply does not have the capacity to produce and launch so many drones and missiles.
To make sure it lacks the money, production capacity, components, logistics — and eventually the manpower — required to keep doing this.
That is an extraordinarily difficult task.
And when we talk about Russian attacks, one more thing should not be forgotten: Ukraine's Defense Forces are doing everything within their capabilities to stop them.
They are intercepting drones and missiles every day. They are identifying and striking Russian production facilities, am******on depots, command posts and other military targets.
But war is also a question of resources.
And the reality today is simple: Ukraine does not yet have enough of them.
There are not enough air-defense systems or interceptors. There are not enough resources to protect every city and every piece of critical infrastructure simultaneously. Meanwhile, Russia continues to expand its ability to launch mass attacks.
So the question is not only how many Russian drones we managed to shoot down today.
The bigger question is whether we can make sure that tomorrow Russia has fewer of them to launch.
That is one of the central battles of this war.
