Welcome back to Frontline Updates. I'm your host. Today is February 26, 2026, and the Russian Ministry of Defense has released its daily briefing. The report opens with a significant statement: last night, in response to Ukrainian terrorist attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a mass strike using long-range precision weapons and attack drones against Ukrainian defense industry enterprises, power infrastructure, and military airfields. This is not a routine daily update, this is a strategic message. And as we dig into the ground sectors, we find the deep battle expanding to 159 districts, the highest number we've seen in this reporting series. To help us understand what this means for the campaign and how the strategic and operational levels interconnect, we are joined by Colonel A.C. Oguntoye. Colonel Oguntoye is an Infantry Officer with deep expertise in combined arms operations and the integration of strategic fires. Colonel, welcome back.

Today's briefing is a textbook example of how strategic strikes set the conditions for operational and tactical success. The overnight mass strike is the opening act, and everything we see on the ground today must be understood in that context. Let's explore how these pieces fit together.

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