The Hill
Russian air defenses are stretched thin, and there’s not enough manpower to operate them, analysts say, leaving open targets for Ukraine to hit.
“The Ukrainian mid-range and long-range strikes are — they’re sort of eliminating the gap, the time that Putin had thought he had to make some serious decisions,” said Kateryna Stepanenko, Russia team lead and deputy director of the Cognitive Warfare Project at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
