Through the first 12 months of Russia’s struggle in Ukraine, the Biden administration fretted continuously that if Kyiv hit again inside Russian borders, President Vladimir V. Putin would retaliate in opposition to not solely Ukraine, but additionally probably NATO and the West.
However these fears have ebbed. As Ukraine’s counteroffensive edges nearer, a sequence of daring assaults in Russia, from a swarm of drone assaults in Moscow to the shelling of cities within the Belgorod area bordering Ukraine and an incursion into the…
