I'm John Batchel with my colleague Bill Rasio, my co-host and friend of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's Long War Journal.

And a major reporter for the FDD site and Long War Journal site is we welcome now, John Hardy, watching Ukraine.

John, the headlines from Reuters are alarming.

Russia says it hit an aircraft repair plant in Ukraine with that

Arrashnik missile that it boasts about. I'll ask you about that in a minute. But first, I want

to attend what looks to be Keef under assault, a thousand Keefe apartment blocks still without

heating after the Russian strike.

You could argue that the strike on the aircraft repair plan is about war fighting,

but taking down the heat in Keef seems terror.

Good evening to you, John.

Is this something we've seen from the Russians in winter's past, or is there something new here?

Good evening to you.

Hi, John. Hey, Bill. Thanks for having me back on the show. Yeah, the Russians have been attacking

Ukrainian energy and electricity infrastructure each year concentrated in the winter months.

I think this year is perhaps Ukraine's most challenging winter. The Russians have adapted their tactics to some

degree. Part of the problem is this exponential increase in Russian production of the Iranian

designed and Russian modified Shahid drones, the Garan 2 and the jet power Garan 3. The Russians are also experimenting with

various other kind of variants in that Garan line. So you've had an increase in the number of

Garan's getting through. Also, Russian increases in production of ballistic and other missiles.

And attackically, the Russians have kind of adjusted the logic of the way they're going after

Ukrainian electricity sites.

So the kind of concentrating region by region, or dividing the country in half, targeting

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