'Escalatory spiral of attrition: Drone technology allowing Ukraine to resist Russia asymmetrically'

Per France 24, Peter Zalmayev of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative challenges the narrative that Russia is only now escalating against Ukraine. He argues that Moscow has consistently pursued maximalist objectives, adapting tactics to battlefield conditions. Ukrainian innovation in drone warfare has complicated Russia's military superiority, Zalmayev notes, but he contends that technological ingenuity cannot permanently offset Russia's advantages in manpower, industrial capacity, and external military support. The conflict, he says, has entered an escalatory spiral of attrition.

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