Ukraine Drone Strikes Are Driving Vladimir Putin Into Bunker Hideaways
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- Aerospace & Defense Ukraine Drone Strikes Are Driving Vladimir Putin Into Bunker Hideaways By Kevin Holden Platt,
- These days, as the two leaders are observed across the world stage, “Zelensky has demonstrated true leadership by standing with his people while Putin hides in a bunker.”
- Forced into the Soviet Union during the Russian revolution a century ago, Ukraine regained its independence in 1991, with the break-up of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Aerospace & Defense Ukraine Drone Strikes Are Driving Vladimir Putin Into Bunker Hideaways By Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kevin Holden Platt writes on space defense, Space X, ISS, Space War I Follow Author May 09, 2026, 01:26am EDTMay 09, 2026, 01:28am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Russian rocket launchers stream through Red Square, past the hammer and sickle symbols of the Soviet Union, during an earlier Victory Day Parade. This year Moscow's massive war machines will not join the parade, for fear they might be targeted in a Ukrainian drone strike, (Photo by Ramil Sitdikov - Host Photo Agency via Getty Images)Host Photo Agency via Getty ImagesIn another sign of Ukraine’s rising military might, its expanding drone and missile strikes across Russia are driving Kremlin Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin underground - literally.
Four years after launching his blitzkrieg invasion of Ukraine, expecting to seize the capital and its iconic freedom-fighter Volodymyr Zelensky within days, it is Putin who now seems to be on the run, moving from subterranean shelter to shelter as he faces Ukraine’s strengthening fleets of bomb-tipped drones.