"Putin can be influenced if a thousand drones fly toward Moscow," Zelenskyy said

Large-scale strikes by Ukrainian drones on Moscow and St. Petersburg could alter the Kremlin’s strategic calculations. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that the psychological pressure resulting from the extension of hostilities onto Russian territory, combined with the economic consequences, will force Putin to personally feel the consequences of the war he started.

“When not just a hundred drones, but a thousand are flying toward Moscow… he’ll understand. When he begins to feel this personally, when he sees it with his own eyes, you’ll see how his advisors will urge him to move somewhere beyond the Urals,” the head of state emphasized, adding that Putin’s departure from the capital would bring the end of the conflict one step closer.

Ukraine plans to continue intensifying strikes on legitimate military targets in the Russian Federation and in occupied Crimea. The main targets for the Defense Forces remain military bases, logistics hubs, ammunition depots, air defense systems, and airfields used by Russian aviation. The ultimate goal of this long-range campaign is to exhaust the aggressor’s military potential as much as possible and create conditions under which the Russian leadership will be forced to end the war.