KYIV — For much of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Moscow was able to pound Ukrainian cities and its energy grid and suffered very little retaliation.
That’s changing.
Thanks to a successful effort to develop its own long-range drones and missiles and then to dramatically ramp up production, Ukraine is now able to hit Russia almost daily. It can now methodically target not only oil refineries but also power plants and electricity substations, sparking a growing energy crisis inside Russia.
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“After all, we told them they must understand that if they want to impose blackouts on us, we will do the same. There are no secrets here,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during a meeting with several journalists, including POLITICO, in Kyiv.
