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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Putin's Drone Swarms and the View From a Kyiv Bomb Shelter

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Reporting from Ukraine, Jillian Kay Melchior describes the scene on the ground as Vladimir Putin launches some of Russia's largest aerial attacks yet, involving hundreds of drones and decoys. What are the lessons of this emerging kind of warfare? Meantime, Donald Trump announces the U.S. will send Ukraine more weapons, which will be paid for by European allies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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President Trump strikes an arrangement to send Ukraine more U.S. weapons, including

0:44.3

Patriot Air Defense batteries that will be paid for by NATO allies.

0:49.2

Meantime, Vladimir Putin continues to increase his aerial barrages of Kiev and other cities, including an attack

0:56.1

overnight on Friday that included hundreds of drones. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the

1:01.7

Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleague editorial board member Jillian Melcher,

1:07.5

based in London, who has been covering the war in Ukraine for the journal's

1:11.3

opinion pages since the beginning, and who's currently there in the capital of Kiev.

1:16.2

Julian, you were there last week during some of these intense aerial bombardments, some of the

1:21.5

most intense ones of this conflict. Your piece in Monday's Wall Street Journal newspaper is

1:26.5

under the headline, Russia intensifies its drone war.

1:30.6

Give us a sense of what it's like there and what you've seen as a witness to this awful history.

1:35.4

Yeah, it's definitely pretty intense.

1:38.5

I've been to Kiev quite a few times since the war began.

1:42.2

And one of my sources observed, and I thought he put this well, that he had an

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