Is Russia's Drone Attack a Response to Trump?

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00:00Jonny, let's start with you.

00:02So we heard from Donald Trump there some choice language

00:04when he was talking about Vladimir Putin.

00:07But Russia has sort of turbocharged its attack on Ukraine,

00:13and that was the early hours of this morning, Wednesday morning.

00:17Is this all down to those comments from Donald Trump?

00:21Did it cause a retaliation from Vladimir Putin?

00:24Although it seems that way on the surface,

00:26because experts are saying that it requires a lot of time,

00:29a lot of effort to put into this as well.

00:31We're looking at 728 drones,

00:34and quite a number of those were intercepted,

00:3613 missiles as well.

00:38And something on that scale requires weeks of preparation in advance.

00:42So it's unlikely that this is a knee-jerk reaction to Donald Trump's comments.

00:47Now, obviously this is now causing confusion.

00:49The U.S. position will be rechecked once again,

00:52because Russia could see this as an opportunity to escalate

00:54what's happening in Ukraine.

00:55Eyes have been off of Ukraine for just a while,

00:58because we've been dealing with the peace talks between Netanyahu and Donald Trump.

01:02So experts will say otherwise,

01:05although on the surface of it,

01:06yes, it does kind of look like it's a knee-jerk reaction,

01:08but it will have taken many, many weeks of planning

01:10in order to be able to actually execute an attack on this scale.

01:14And I think it's been done intentionally.

01:17I think it's to try and get eyes back once again to reassert dominance

01:20and say, have you forgotten that this is also still something that's going on?

01:24And Trump seems to be taking no prisoners when it comes to his comments about Putin as well.

01:28And a much harder stance is what we're seeing this time around.