Yesterday, Francis Louie C. Añiga reported that,
Moscow responded within hours of the announcement. In a press briefing, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the action crossed a critical line." (International Business Times: 24 August 2026) (my emphasis)
"French President Emmanuel Macron (left) has announced that France will provide Ukraine with additional interceptor missiles following a deadly Russian drone attack on Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown.
Ukrainian authorities said Russian forces launched two waves of drone attacks on the central Ukrainian city on Friday, killing at least 16 people and injuring 130 others, including 23 children." (Firstpost: 22 August 2026) (my emphasis)
"British factories manufacturing drones for Ukraine could face targeting by "unknown sources", a Kremlin adviser has warned, after the UK agreed to share long-range missile blueprints with the nation." (The Independent on Yahoo News: 25 August 2026) (my emphasis)
.... [a]sked [on a BBC Newsnight interview], what a semi-military response might involve, he said: “For example, something might happen with enterprises, with factories which are producing drones for Ukraine, etc, etc.” (UK Defence Journal: 25 August 2026) (my emphasis)
Furthermore,
"Fedorov said pressure was building on Putin to act against the United Kingdom, telling the programme: “There’s a very serious political and public pressure on President Putin today, to undertake certain measures against UK, because he is considering UK as part of the war in Ukraine, and assistance from the UK is considered as a direct involvement of UK in this war.” (ibid Richard Booth)
No doubt this pressure from Putin's 'siloviki' is also in no small part due to the fact that,
"Ukraine's Crimea, which Putin invaded, annexed, and incorporated into the Russian Federation in 2014, his 'Crown Jewel' in his war with Ukraine, is collapsing economically and strategically, and is bereft of water, fuel, food, and power.
Mass Migration by Russians from Crimea
His 12-year attempt at the 'Russification' and 'occupation' of Ukraine's Crimea is coming to an abrupt end as the imported Russians are now beginning to flee back to Russia over his 'crippled' Kerch Strait bridge.
Let us recall that in my blog entry of 2 May 2022 I wrote that,
"With a losing war against Ukraine, and an economy entering the economic doldrums of collapse Putin, it would seem, is hammering in the final nails of the coffin of what used to be the USSR." (blog entry: 22 May 2022) (my emphasis)
"Already, at the very outset of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, it was apparent that his demented "Novorossiya" enterprise was doomed to failure."
"Russian president Vladimir Putin said Ukraine has opened, "a Pandora's box" by hitting economic targets in Russia." (DW News: 23 August 2026; YouTube) (my emphasis)
In his current demented state, and fearful for his life, Putin is beyond scraping the bottom of the political barrel.
Putin is hammering in the final nails of the coffin of his 'demented' dreams to resuscitate the USSR with his now puny threats to escalate the war beyond Ukraine.
Putin is beyond redeeming the power he wielded over the Russian people for the last 26 years.
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