It is unclear who is behind the drone attacks in and around Moscow, and Kyiv says it is not directly involved; nevertheless these attacks are "already having a psychological impact, and it's palpable", said FRANCE 24 International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert. "What we have here is the first time you have [...] civilian areas actually targeted by these attacks; and not civilian areas anywhere but in the showcase Russian capital Moscow. [...] We have had obviously incursions, all sorts of reported attacks, around the periphery [of Russia near the Ukrainian border]. This is the first time [...] that we have these types of attacks really reaching into the heart of Russia," Herbert continued.

Regardless of who is responsible for these attacks, with drones going for targets in Moscow, for Russian citizens it becomes "harder and harder to ignore the fact that this is not just some far off [so-called] 'special military operation'; this  is a real and present war", Herbert said.


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