{"id":26061,"date":"2026-06-18T09:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=26061"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:05:35","slug":"advantage-zelenskyy-ukraines-drone-barrage-on-moscow-suggests-russia-cant-handle-their-war-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/06\/18\/advantage-zelenskyy-ukraines-drone-barrage-on-moscow-suggests-russia-cant-handle-their-war-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Advantage Zelenskyy? Ukraine&#8217;s drone barrage on Moscow suggests Russia can&#8217;t handle their war anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;Black smoke from a burning oil refinery filled the Moscow sky. The city\u2019s four airports were urgently closed. And part of the busy highway that rings the Russian capital, a metropolis of 13 million people, was shut down. As Ukraine escalated its effort to bring the war home for Russians, the strikes on Thursday appeared to be the largest drone attack on the Russian capital since President Vladimir V. Putin launched the war more than four years ago.&#8221; Read it all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/18\/world\/europe\/moscow-ukraine-drone-attack-fire.html\">here<\/a>\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>\u2026 but there&#8217;s more!<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy followed up the attack with a provocative flex, saying, &#8220;If Ukraine burns, so will Moscow.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/06\/18\/if-ukraine-burns-so-will-moscow-zelenskyy-said-after-refinery-fire\">Euronews covers the statement<\/a> and its implications.<\/p>\n<p>In the meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/united24media.com\/war-in-ukraine\/russian-forces-fortify-temporarily-occupied-crimea-against-potential-ukrainian-landing-19937\">Russia is attempting to reinforce occupiers in Crimes<\/a> as it becomes more evident that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/ukrainealert\/ukrainian-drones-are-cutting-russian-logistics-and-reshaping-the-battlefield\/\">Ukrainian drones have devastated Russian logistics<\/a> and reshaped the battlefield<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING HOT\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy followed up a Moscow attack with a provocative flex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}