{"id":336491,"date":"2026-04-21T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-is-russia-struggling-to-keep-up-with-ukrainian-drone-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T00:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:00:39","slug":"why-is-russia-struggling-to-keep-up-with-ukrainian-drone-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-is-russia-struggling-to-keep-up-with-ukrainian-drone-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Russia struggling to keep up with Ukrainian drone attacks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/1z2aWVP9AdY\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why is Russia struggling to keep up with Ukrainian drone attacks?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1z2aWVP9AdY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian military has hit Russia&#8217;s Tuapse oil refinery in a second attack in \u200cless than a week. As more of Ukraine&#8217;s long-range drones get past Russian defenses, Russian military bloggers are criticizing the Kremlin for not taking the threat seriously. DW&#8217;s @niklasconnolly explains.<\/p>\n<p>#dwnewsshorts <\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian military has hit Russia&#8217;s Tuapse oil refinery in a second attack in \u200cless than a week. As more of Ukraine&#8217;s long-range drones get past Russian defenses, Russian military bloggers are criticizing the Kremlin for not taking the threat seriously. DW&#8217;s @niklasconnolly explains. #dwnewsshorts For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/ Follow DW on social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[128824,129059,128889],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-336491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news","tag-military","tag-russias","tag-ukrainian"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why is Russia struggling to keep up with Ukrainian drone attacks? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Why is Russia struggling to keep up with Ukrainian drone attacks? for free, here on News ISC. 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