Drone construction equipment is seen at a production facility in eastern Ukraine in April. (Ed Ram/For The Washington Post)

Ukraine’s daring drone attack against Russian air bases last weekend delivered “a serious slap in the face of the power … of the Russian Federation,” as Lt. Gen. Vasyl Malyuk, the head of SBU, Ukraine’s security service, boasted after the operation. Some Ukraine supporters hoped the strikes might mark a breakthrough in the war.

But what’s ahead appears to be a bloody continuation of this terrible conflict. President Donald Trump, who came into office promising to settle the war, on Thursday glibly compared it to “two young children fighting like crazy in a park. … Sometimes, you’re better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart.”

With Trump s

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