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  "description": "Ukraine’s drone attacks on Moscow suggest the pressures sustaining Putin’s war machine are becoming harder to contain.",
  "path": "/is-russias-war-economy-starting-to-crack/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-22T11:35:44.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.opendemocracy.net",
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  "textContent": "The war in Ukraine is increasingly becoming a war about Russia itself.\n\nAfter more than three years of attritional fighting, the central question is no longer simply whether Moscow can continue gaining territory in eastern Ukraine, but whether Putin can continue sustaining the economic, political and social pressures created by a war that was supposed to last days, not years.\n\nLast week’s mass Ukrainian drone assault across Russia, including Moscow, offered a glimpse of that pressure becoming harder to contain. More than a thousand drones were launched across 14 Russian regions, the annexed Crimean Peninsula and the Black Sea in one of the largest attacks of the war.\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Is Russia’s war economy starting to crack?",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-23T15:21:27.617Z"
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