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In an increasingly uncertain world,
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Hello and welcome to Frontline for Times Radio with me, Kate Shabo.
And this time we're joined by Maxim Tucker.
Maxim is the Times' Ukraine correspondent.
He's been reporting from the front lines in Ukraine since 2022.
Maxim, you're just back.
I'll ask you about that trip in a moment.
But I want to start off by this President Putin taking a couple of days to break his silence over this daring mass Ukrainian drone attacks on multiple airfields in Russia.
Donald Trump's account was he had a phone call with Putin and that was the first we heard of any kind of response where he's threatening retaliation.
What do you make of that?
Yeah, it's astonishing.
It's almost a week now since these attacks.