"Zelensky’s 40-day campaign has reached its announced endpoint. I tabulate the refinery strikes, warehouse and storage damage, shadow-fleet attacks, and other pressure Ukraine imposed on Russia during this period.
But the larger story is what comes next: ground robots carried into battle by drones, AI-guided interceptors designed to resist Russian jamming, new Ukrainian cruise- and ballistic-missile engines, and efforts to build an indigenous anti-ballistic missile defense system. Ukraine is not simply continuing the campaign—it is developing the technology that could define its next phase of warfare."