The war in Ukraine is entering a high-stakes phase, whatever one's been calling the

Spring Counter-offensive.

President Volodymyr Zelensky wants planes and weapons from the United States badly, but

about a month ago he told the US, this counteroffensive is going to happen regardless of whether

Ukraine gets its American planes and weapons.

Yes, it's just that.

Frankly speaking, it would help us a lot, but we also understand that we can't drag

the counteroffensive out, which is why we'll start before we receive F-16s or other models.

The US came around late last month, Ukraine will get F-16s, and then this week someone

attacked Moscow, not with planes, but with drones.

These are the first hits of the scale to Russia's capital since the war started, and a day

later, yesterday, someone drone a big oil refinery in southern Russia.

Ukraine denies everything, but for analysts and reporters covering this war, it seems like

this may be the moment when Ukraine strikes back.

It's today explained.

It caused, quote, insignificant damage to several buildings.

So on Tuesday morning, a lot of Russians woke up to the sounds of explosions.

Most of them were near Moscow, which is obviously the capital of Russia.

And this was a pretty unprecedented attack because residents of Russia, capital, experience

can direct consequences of the war in Ukraine for the very first time.

Mary Aleusina is a foreign correspondent covering this war for the Washington Post.

I asked Mary the million-rubal question, who did the drone strikes?

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