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Lawfare Daily: How Ukraine Is Winning the Drone War

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4.76.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Jimmy Rushton, a Kyiv-based journalist and security analyst who recently published, “How Ukraine gained the upper hand in the drone war against Russia,” in the Kyiv Independent. They talk about how the balance of power in the drone war seems to have shifted in Ukraine’s favor, Russia's latest missile strike on Kyiv, and what it all means for Russia’s broader strategic position in its war against Ukraine.

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is Anastasia Labatina. I'm a Kiev-based Ukraine fellow at Lawfare,

0:09.8

and you probably know me as the voice behind Lawfare's Ukraine coverage. I always tell everyone

0:16.5

that I have a dream job, and one of the main reasons why I say that is that we at lawfare never strive to be the first.

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1:37.2

You're talking about something that's so cheap and capable of being deployed in such large numbers, even if you do shoot down, you know, 90% of these drones, the 10% that gets

1:43.7

through are going to cause significant damage.

1:47.5

It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Anastasia Lapitina, Ukraine fellow at Lawfare, with Jimmy Rochton,

1:53.8

a Kiev-based journalist and security analyst.

1:57.2

I think the longer this campaign goes on, the more difficult and the more strange Russian

2:01.6

logistics will come.

2:02.6

And that will cause problems again at the tactical level because trucks can't move without fuel,

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