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A senior Ukrainian official said on Friday that drone strikes on Russian soil were set to increase and that recent such attacks showed that the war in Ukraine was gradually shifting to Russia.
In an interview, presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak also ruled out peace talks for now, saying any negotiations would amount to „capitulation“ on the part of Ukraine and the democracies that support it.
Ukraine had ramped up its strikes on occupied areas, and attacks inside Russia itself would also increase, carried out by „agents“ or „partisans,“ Podolyak said.
„As for Russia … there is an increasing number of attacks by unidentified drones launched from the territory of the Russian Federation, and the number of these attacks will increase,“ Podolyak told Reuters.
„Because this is the stage of the war… when hostilities are gradually being transferred to the territory of the Russian Federation,“ he said in the interview in his office in the heavily-defended government district in Kyiv.
Drone attacks on Russia have sharply increased in scale and frequency in recent weeks, culminating this week with strikes that hit six Russian regions in one night and destroyed transport planes in a blaze at a military airfield.
