Drone attack on Russian airport in Pskov
The airbase in Pskov is located about 600 kilometers from Ukraine. In a briefing to journalists, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said the drones could not have covered such distances without information from Western countries.

Nevertheless, former Commander of the Dutch Army Mart de Kruif does not consider it likely that the West has much to do with it. "That Russia says this also stems from the idea that Ukraine is militarily inferior to Russia. Putin underestimates the Ukrainians. You can see that in how optimistically he started the war, also based on the course of the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014."

But Ukraine is capable of more than the Russians would like to believe, says De Kruif. "The country has quite a modern arms industry. Most of the drones have been developed by Ukraine itself. It must be said that the drones are not very complicated to make."