NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Russian missiles and Iranian-supplied drones continue to slam into Ukrainian hospitals and apartment blocks with regularity. These are not precision strikes aimed at military targets; they are clumsy, often wildly inaccurate terror attacks designed to break the will of the Ukrainian people.<\/p>\n In this, they echo the Nazi V-1 and V-2 “vengeance weapons” of 1944-45. Those terror weapons killed thousands of civilians in London and Antwerp, but achieved little militarily. They also mirror the Luftwaffe\u2019s Blitz on British cities in 1940. The bombs fell \u2014 but British resolve only hardened.<\/p>\n The same dynamic is playing out now in Ukraine. Every Russian strike on civilians strengthens Ukrainian determination to fight on.<\/p>\n JEB BUSH PRAISES TRUMP FOR CRIPPLING IRAN\u2019S MILITARY, BUT WARNS OF \u2018THREAT\u2019 TO US FROM REPORTED DRONES IN CUBA<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Ukraine has seized the initiative with a weapon the Russians has yet to counter: massed, AI-enabled drones and long-range cruise missiles produced at scale and employed with laser-like focus for operational and strategic effect.<\/p>\n Smoke and flames rise over Moscow on June 18, 2026, following a Ukrainian drone attack that hit the Kapotnya oil refinery and other targets in the Russian capital.<\/span> (East2West)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Operationally, Ukrainian strikes have methodically dismantled Russian logistics across the southern theater from the Donbas approaches all the way to Crimea. Drone strikes on fuel convoys, ammunition trucks, rail hubs and bridges have created chronic shortages of fuel, water, ammunition and food for Russian troops.<\/p>\n Reports from occupied Crimea and the southern land corridor document rationing, long lines at gas stations and mounting chaos. Ukrainian strikes have effectively placed large portions of the Russian southern front under a logistics lockdown.<\/p>\n DRONE OFFENSIVE HITS RUSSIAN OIL TANKERS AND REFINERIES AT ‘INDUSTRIAL SCALE’ AS MOSCOW BANS DIESEL EXPORTS<\/strong><\/p>\n With supply lines under constant interdiction, half or more of Russia\u2019s southern grouping now operates under severe strain \u2014 a situation that risks localized collapse if the pressure continues. This, while Russian territorial gains have slowed to a crawl \u2014 and even reversed.<\/p>\n Strategically, Ukraine has accomplished something extraordinary. Its sustained campaign of long-range drone and missile strikes against Russian oil refineries and energy infrastructure intensified dramatically in the last month. Kyiv has inflicted damage on Russia\u2019s fuel production capacity that took the U.S. Army Air Forces two full years of strategic bombing to achieve against Nazi Germany in World War II.<\/p>\n Major refineries from Moscow to the south have been hit repeatedly. Processing capacity has been slashed by more than a third. Russia now faces a genuine fuel crisis: lines at pumps, regional shortages and emergency measures. Putin himself has acknowledged the “difficult period.”<\/p>\n The cruel arithmetic is now unavoidable. Who gets the remaining fuel? Front-line troops? The Russian military\u2019s broader needs? Civilian motorists? Trucks and trains hauling food and goods? Farmers trying to bring in the harvest? A food crisis looms as transport and agriculture feel the squeeze.<\/p>\n Ukraine has gone further. Long-range strikes have also targeted Russian military electronics plants and missile production facilities. In June, Ukrainian forces hit a key electronics plant in Voronezh that produces components for Iskander missiles and other systems. When new Russian missiles emerge from damaged factories, they will fly with inferior avionics. Accuracy will suffer. The terror weapons aimed at Ukrainian apartments and hospitals may soon struggle to even hit a city center.<\/p>\n Ukrainian drones have not stopped at Russia\u2019s borders. Naval and aerial drones have ranged far into the Black Sea and beyond, striking Russia\u2019s shadow fleet of tankers used to evade sanctions and fund the war. Attacks have occurred off Turkey\u2019s coast and even in the Mediterranean \u2014 vessels hit hundreds or thousands of miles from Ukrainian territory. This campaign degrades Moscow\u2019s ability to export oil and generate war revenue.<\/p>\n All of this flows from Ukraine\u2019s rapid mastery of drone technology and its decentralized, innovative military culture. Ukrainian industry has scaled production of AI-enhanced drones and cruise missiles at a pace that Russia\u2019s legacy, Soviet-style, rigid, top-down systems cannot match.<\/p>\n Reports from occupied Crimea and the southern land corridor document rationing, long lines at gas stations and mounting chaos. Ukrainian strikes have effectively placed large portions of the Russian southern front under a logistics lockdown.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n There is a painful lesson here for the United States.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION<\/strong><\/p>\n Much of our Navy \u2014 aircraft carriers and submarines alike \u2014 remains vulnerable to massed drone attacks, both by air and sea, when at port. Air bases, power grids and other critical infrastructure also sit exposed. Adversaries could launch similar drone swarms from Cuba or Mexico, or from Chinese merchant vessels loitering off our coasts. We have seen what cheap, massed drones, some with warheads larger than a ton, can do when employed with imagination and industrial scale.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/p>\n America must absorb these lessons quickly. President Donald Trump\u2019s Department of War has called for urgent investment in layered counter-drone and missile defenses \u2014 the Golden Dome initiative \u2014 as well as hardened infrastructure and our own rapid innovation in unmanned systems. It\u2019s up to Congress to fund it. We must reward decentralized initiative and speed rather than bureaucratic caution. The alternative is to learn these truths the hard way.<\/p>\n Russia\u2019s terror campaign has failed to break Ukraine, while Ukraine\u2019s precision campaign is systematically degrading Russia\u2019s ability to wage war. Fortunately, war\u2019s harsh lessons are plainly displayed for America to see \u2014 as we strive to deter adversaries.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM CHUCK DEVORE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"Smoke](\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1200\/675\/Moscow-oil-refinery-in-Kapotnya-attacked-1-east2west-news.jpeg?ve=1&tl=1\")
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