Since August 2025 Ukraine has stepped up its campaign of strikes against targets deep inside Russia. While the country’s Western allies have been reluctant to allow the use of long-range missiles for that purpose, they have not objected to Ukraine doing it with its domestically-produced weapons – principally drones – with the Americans even helping with targeting, according to various sources. FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg gained exclusive access to the launch of one of these attacks.
