Russia now looks to be trying to shake that up, and we should all be worried. While Putin still refers to the war as a “special military operation”, he has hinted in broad terms at widening the conflict. Men carry salvaged belongings after a massive Russian attack in a village outside Kyiv in February. Russian forces are attacking the main grain export facilities from the port complex of Odesa to the dockyards at Mykolaiv. It took seven of these drones to knock out a single Russian attack, and nine in another.