# As the Russia-Ukraine war escalates in the air, what comes next?

https://mins.news/en/item/51583

- The Kyiv Independent, 2026-09-09 15:19 UTC
- World
- Original: https://kyivindependent.com/as-russia-ukraine-war-escalates-in-the-air-what-comes-next/

> The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell interviews Mykola Bielieskov, a senior analyst at Come Back Alive and research fellow at the National Institute for Strategic Studies, on why Russian advances have slowed, how Ukraine’s drone tactics are changing the battlefield, and why manpower alone has limits. Farrell and Olena Zashko also followed Ukrainian military medics to Sweden for a short mental health retreat.

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