00:00But the backdrop to all of this, Dana, is we've seen a stronger, more powerful-looking Ukraine
00:05in recent days, the strike on St. Petersburg in Crimea. Do you think that's shifted the dynamic
00:12between the two leaders at all? Well, I mean, we're talking about different strikes, right?
00:16I mean, the one in Crimea, which the Russians claim hit a dormitory with teenagers in it,
00:25and the Ukrainians say that it was, in fact, a drone control center. But these strikes in St.
00:32Petersburg, you know, on the eve of the St. Petersburg Forum, certainly are embarrassing
00:39to the Russians. But more than that, I mean, the Ukrainians are launching about 5,500 drones a day.
00:45They are penetrating deep inside Russia, hitting cities, and more than that, shaking the notion
00:51in war that you have a secure rear area from which to relaunch, to coordinate your war, to rearm.
01:02And the Ukrainians now are saying that they can hit supply lines. So in addition to hitting some
01:07of the oil tanks that we've seen, and oil supply facilities, the supply, the war machine, I mean,
01:15they're going after all sorts of supply centers, rearmament centers, and they're shaking that whole
01:21supply line that feeds the forward line of the Russians inside Ukraine. So I mean, the Ukrainian
01:27inside Ukraine, but the Ukrainians against the Russians are accomplishing a lot with this sort
01:33of wall of drones on the forward battlefield, and then behind the Russian rear echelon,
01:39they're doing a lot of damage. And I think that that's worrying the Russians.
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