I'm Francis Dernley, and this is Ukraine the latest.

Today, we discuss one of the largest mass drone attacks of the entire war, as Ukraine set

sites across many territories of Russia ablaze.

Then we do a deep dive into what Western boots on the ground as part of any peace settlement would actually mean in practice.

Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory.

The first duty of my government is security and defence to make clear our unshakable support of NATO and with our allies towards Ukraine.

Keep stand strong. Nobody's going to break us. We're strong. We're strong. Where Ukraine is.

It's Tuesday, the 14th of January, two years and 319 days since the full-scale invasion began.

And today, I'm joined by the Telegraph's Associate Editor of Defense, Dominic Nichols,

and dialing in from Belgium, our Brussels correspondent, Joe Barnes.

First, though, over to Dom for the latest from the battlefront.

Well, hello, Francis. Hello, everybody. Let's start inside Russia. So overnight there was a

massive Ukrainian drone attack across Russia. Oil defence manufacturing and military targets hit in multiple

regions across the country, including as far as Saratov, Tula, and Tatarstan, shall talk about

in a minute, said to have been one of the biggest so far by Ukraine in the war, at least

100 attack drones used in the swarm strike.

Not gone down well at all in the Russian military blogger sphere.

Lots of questions, where's the air defence, where's the radars, where the fighters, etc.

So Keeves 14th unmanned aerial vehicle regiment, part of the unmanned systems forces,

that relatively new grouping,

said this morning it had targeted the infrastructure of Russia's Engels Air Base in a multi-day

comprehensive operation. The regiment said the attacks were to, quote, reduce the enemy's

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