Around the Kourchatov power plant, mini-bunkers were dug in the countryside as well as shelters for armored vehicles. In the sky, we can see the trace of a Ukrainian missile intercepted by Russian anti-aircraft defense. Two days earlier, it was the “hypersonics” launched by Moscow on kyiv which passed through the sky with a hell of a noise. As earlier in the war with the Enerhodar power plant conquered by the Russians, the two adversaries are playing blackmail around atomic power plants. While we are on the Sudja front facing the Ukrainians, we learn that the latter have fired ATACMS missiles for the first time on the very nearby Bryansk region.
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The soldiers we are with don't seem any more disturbed by the news. Ending this war is their goal. They feel he is close. They also know that long-range missiles, despite the symbolic escalation that this represents, will not be a “game changer” in this conflict. Arriving too late, like almost everything the West provided to Ukraine.
Zelensky is in a race against time
The shortage of men is such on the Ukrainian side that we are moving towards a one-way progression of the Russians and fewer and fewer soldiers to block their path. The missile escalation of recent days has above all brought back the specter of the Third World War with the ratification by Vladimir Putin of an amended version of the Russian nuclear doctrine including in the atomic response any country whose allies are nuclear powers… This escalation also shows that President Zelensky is engaged in a race against time before Trump arrives. By mounting the Kursk offensive last August, he wanted to prove to his European and American allies that Ukraine was capable of daring initiatives. In an interview with Fox News, he just admitted that “If the United States cuts off its aid, Ukraine will lose.”
