Ukraine Opens a Second Front Inside Russia

In recent months, Ukraine has increasingly pushed the war deeper into territory that Moscow long considered a secure rear base. But the overnight strikes on the Kerch ferry crossing, Port Kavkaz, oil facilities in Kerch and energy infrastructure in occupied Crimea may mark a turning point — not only for Russia’s military logistics, but for the political logic of the war itself.

When the lid of an oil reservoir at Moscow’s Kapotnya oil refinery was blown into the air by a Ukrainian drone strike, it was not just another wartime video. It was a symbol. A symbol of how the frontline, long kept far from the Russian capital, is...

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