Mykola Knyazhytskyy says the Kremlin is shifting pressure to Ukraine's rear as Russia's slowest advance since 2023 leaves no resources for large breakthroughs, while Ukraine can now strike deep inside Russia.
Vladimir Putin is threatening fresh strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure because Russia lacks the resources for major breakthroughs on the battlefield, Ukrainian MP and analyst Mykola Knyazhytskyy has said.
The current pace of the Russian army's advance is the lowest since 2023. With no prospect of large-scale gains, the Kremlin is increasingly shifting pressure from the front line to Ukraine's rear, seeking to offset its military failures through attacks on power facilities and civilian infrastructure, Knyazhytskyy argued.
Ukraine, however, is no longer in the position it occupied in 2022. It can now hit back deep inside Russia, targeting ammunition depots, oil refineries and other strategic sites.
"Strikes deep into Russia will not end the war by themselves," Knyazhytskyy said. "But they return to Russian society and to Putin himself the real price of the war."
This development is particularly dangerous for the Kremlin, he added, because the conflict is gradually ceasing to be a foreign-policy instrument and becoming an internal test of the regime's resilience.
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