Ukraine continues to reel from Russia's missile strike on Monday, which ranks as the largest attack since the start of the war, as Moscow is beginning to suggest that Ukraine could make desperate moves. "Russia's large-scale strikes on Ukraine's critical infrastructure on Monday are almost certainly in response to Ukraine's incursion into Kursk Oblast, breaching Russia's border," Rebekah Koffler, told Fox News Digital. "Zelenskyy likely anticipated Russia's retaliation and accepted the risk anyway," Koffler explained. "Zelenskyy wants to stay in the fight - there's no other path for him personally or professionally." "To stay in the fight, he needs more weapons and financing from the West," she added.

Russia increasingly looks toward artificial intelligence (AI) to address deficiencies in its battlefield capabilities and capacities that the invasion of Ukraine has exposed, according to experts. "Russian futurists, Russian technologists, Russian developers are envisioning this slow evolution away from larger human involvement to where humans are going to be involved as little as possible," Samuel Bendett, adjunct senior fellow in the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), told Fox News Digital. "Some of those statements were made prior to Russia's disastrous invasion of Ukraine and Russia's conduct in this war, which is very much manpower intensive… but this is something that the Russian military is keeping sort of on the horizon," he said. Bendett in his paper for CNAS argued that Russia's keenness to adopt AI could lead the country to take greater risks as it seeks to catch up with the West. He relied on public statements, announcements and analysis of Russian-language media to develop his paper, which looks at major developments in robotics and AI spaces and as Russia seeks an "intellectualized" military that makes semiautomated decisions.

Video captures the moment and aftermath of what appears to be a drone, allegedly of Ukrainian origin, striking Russian drone production facility. Russian officials claimed that only a worker's dormitory was hit. Russia has started to make steady progress against Ukraine as Kyiv's forces face dwindling ammunition supplies, much to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's frustration. "There can be no question, Ukraine could be quickly overwhelmed by both men and arms by odds as great as 10 to 1 within weeks without additional U.S. assistance," Kenneth Braithwaite, a former ambassador and former Navy secretary during the Trump administration, told Fox News Digital. "This is a critical juncture in the war and time is of the essence for Congress to act on a comprehensive package," Braithwaite said.

Debris rained from the Kyiv night sky as Russia launched air attacks on early Wednesday, killing at least two people in the Ukrainian capital, Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on the Telegram messaging app. Ukraine and Russia made their boldest drone and missile strikes in months on each other, with a strike in Kyiv killing two people while a strike on ships in the Black Sea and an airport near the border lasted for hours, according to local reports. "While the Russians have been retaliating brutally against Ukraine, Kyiv's incremental escalation has prevented a massive conventional (or nuclear attack) that would have obliterated Ukraine," Rebekah Koffler, president of Doctrine & Strategy Consulting and a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer, told Fox News Digital. "It's quite witty," she said. "Will this win the war for Ukraine? But it might gradually wear down the Russian people's morale."

Fox News Greg Palkot reports from Kyiv on another deadly Russian missile strike and Moscows efforts to block Ukraine food exports. Russia continued to target Ukrainian grain infrastructure in attacks overnight Wednesday, a sign the country could be struggling to achieve a victory in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. "By targeting Ukraine's grain depots, Putin seeks to starve Ukrainians and create a food crisis, in order to compel [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy to capitulate and Western nations to withdraw support from Ukraine," Rebekah Koffler, a strategic military intelligence analyst, former senior official at the Defense Intelligence Agency, and author of "Putin's Playbook," told Fox News Digital. "Putin's goal at this stage is to turn Ukraine into a dysfunctional state, that is unable to govern itself and feed its people, thus raising the cost of rebuilding it for the U.S. and European countries." Koffler's comments come after another round of attacks against Ukraine's southern Odesa region, where overnight Russian drones hit storage facilities and ports that Ukraine has been using for grain transport, according to a report from The Associated Press.

Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., weighs in on challenges Border Patrol faces as more migrants flood the southern border on'Special Report.' The crash between a Russian fighter jet and a U.S. drone likely resulted from the pilot's aggression and "incompetence," according to former astronaut and Navy captain, Sen. Mark Kelly. "Look at the level of incompetence – I mean when we saw the flanker yesterday, which basically had a midair with the MQ-9 [drone], with a reaper … I spent 15 years in the astronaut office, I used to fly with Russian fighter pilots in the backseat of my plane," Kelly, D-AZ., told Fox News chief political anchor and host of "Special Report with Brett Baier" during an interview Thursday. "The level of incompetence in the Russian pilots that I flew with was shocking to me." Russia has denied that its plane crashed into the U.S. drone despite video evidence showing the plane make at least two fly-bys, including one in which it appeared to dump fuel on the drone before the feed abruptly cut off, and the drone crashed into the Black Sea. On Friday, Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu reportedly presented the pilots responsible for crashing the drone with state awards, saying the pilots prevented the drone from "violating the boundaries of the temporary airspace regime established for the special military operation," referring to the invasion of Ukraine.

David Bellavia, Dr. Richard Jadick, and Ozzie Martinez Jr. weigh in on the intensifying war in Ukraine after Russia fired more than 100 missiles. They also reflect on the military's efforts in the Battle of Fallujah. Russia will deploy violent soccer fans, known as "hooligans" or "ultras," to Ukraine in an effort to bolster troop numbers as the conflict enters its 11th month. "What is very clear is that Putin will not end this war any time soon," Rebekah Koffler, president of Doctrine & Strategy Consulting and a former DIA intelligence officer, told Fox News Digital. "He will use hooligans, prisoners, and any sort of thug to continue flowing fighters into Ukraine, to keep it from becoming part of NATO. The mission is this important."