Here we are at week 132 of Putin’s glorious re-establishment of the Romanov Empire to see how things are going. You’ll note that I didn’t write an update last week, not because there wasn’t stuff happening but because my give-a-crap circuit breaker suddenly tripped and left me with no motivation. I’ll promise that I might try harder in the future.
The big story this week has been a sudden upturn in the war of attrition both sides are waging.
On August 26, the Russians launched one of their largest airstrikes of the war. After a 45-day absence of large-scale Russian missile strikes, Monday brought one of the largest strikes of the war. The Russians fired at least 127 ballistic and cruise missiles and 109 Iranian-made Shahed attack drones. Of this onslaught, the Ukrainian Air Force claims it successfully intercepted 102 missiles and 99 Shaheds. While a signal achievement, it also…
