Busy night in Kyiv. Lots of fireworks, drones, missiles, hunks of burning stuff falling from the sky landing whereever. Several buildings were hit and partially destroyed.
Russia started sending missiles to Kyiv regularly to kill civilians on October 10, 20221. That was about a month after we started writing about Schwerpunkt2.
Kori in Washington, D.C. has started to complain again, but Uncle Joe says long-range ATACMs are still in play34.
In other news, OK Wine tells me I’ve forked over about UAH 10,000 for various beverages (mostly Saperavi and Mukuzani) over the last six months.
Not nearly enough.
Biden Is More Fearful Than the Ukrainians Are. The U.S. president has promised Ukraine “whatever it takes, as long as it takes.” But out of anxiety about escalation, Washington is making decisions that could prolong the war (The Atlantic, May 29, 2023)