Hello and welcome to Battleground Ukraine with me Saul David and Roger Morehouse.

It's been another momentous week, which we might, just might, Roger, look back on

as a decisive turning point in the war. First on Tuesday came the shocking news that a Russian glide bomb

had killed 24 elderly people queuing to collect pensions in a village in Dornetsk, eastern Ukraine.

President Zelensky commented on this by saying a guided bomb had struck the

village of Yorova about 15 miles from the city of Sloviansky Ukrainian stronghold and several

kilometers behind the front line. It was directly on people, ordinary people at the very moment

when pensions were being dispersed. he wrote on X alongside footage showing bodies

strewn across the ground. Twenty-four were killed in another 19 wounded. The state emergency said

all of the dead were elderly, said regional governor, Vadim Filashkin. Now, this, Roger, was just the

latest in a series of escalatory Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure

in Ukraine, including on Monday the largest aerial attack of the war involving 13 missiles and

810 drones and decoy drones which struck targets across Ukraine, including Kiev government

buildings for the first time, and killed at least eight civilians and injured 59.

Yes, all of this is clearly a big two fingers from Putin to Donald Trump,

whose big talk of a ceasefire at the Alaska summit has come to nothing, as of course we

predicted. But if a ramping up of indiscriminate airstrikes on Ukraine were not bad enough,

Russian provocation was about to get a lot

worse, wasn't it, all? Because on Wednesday came news that 19 Russian drones, including decoys,

had entered Polish airspace, prompting the scrambling of Polish, Dutch and Italian planes to intercept

them. Well, it seems that only four of the drones were actually shot down because those

were the killer variety that posed a lethal threat to human life. The others either ran out of

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