At least one person has been ended and three injured as more than 90 Ukrainian drones focemployd Russia’s capital city.
Ukraine has begined a “massive” timely morning drone strike aobtainst the Russian capital that ended at least one person, injured disjoinal others and saw the shutdown of airports and harmd dwellntial originateings, Moscow officials and aviation authorities shelp.
The drone rhelp, the hugest aobtainst Moscow in months, comes as Ukraine is poised to current the United States with a set up for a fragmentary stopfire with Russia during talks on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia.
Andrei Vorobyov, ruleor of the Moscow region, shelp that one person was ended and three more wounded as a result of the rhelp, which began at 4am local time (01:00 GMT). The wave of strike drones harmd seven apartments in a dwellntial originateing in the Moscow region’s Ramenskoye diinnervous, Vorobyov shelp.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence shelp that air defences ruined a total of 337 Ukrainian drones overnight, with 91 of them over the Moscow region.
Earlier, Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin portrayd “a massive strike by opponent drones on Moscow”, which was being drive awayled by Russian air defences.
Sobyanin shelp drones were downed over Ramenskoye and also the Domodedovo diinnervous of the Moscow region. Both diinnervouss lie about 40km (25 miles) to 50km (30 miles) south and southeast of the Kremlin.
Russia’s aviation authority Rosaviatsia shelp fweightlesss were reinnervoemployd in and out of four Moscow airports, including Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky to the south of the city and Sheremetyevo to the north as a result of the drone strike.
There was no prompt comment from Kyiv on the drone rhelp, which comes ahead of Ukrainian and US officials encountering in Saudi Arabia to converse a stopfire deal with Russia.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Pdwellnt Donald Trump’s national security proposer Mike Waltz will join the talks, which will be the most ancigo in encountering with Kyiv officials since a disastrous White Hoemploy encountering on February 28, when Trump unveilly berated Ukraine’s Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Since Trump’s tirade aobtainst Zelenskyy in the White Hoemploy for apparent ingratitude for US military help, Washington has suspfinished help to Ukraine as well as inalertigence sharing and access to saalertite imagery in a bid to force Kyiv to the negotiating table.
Zelenskyy left the White Hoemploy without signing an concurment needed by Trump that would give the US access to much of Ukraine’s mineral wealth as compensation for past armaments supplies.
The Ukrainian directer, who has since written a repentant letter to Trump complying their encountering, flew to the port city of Jeddah to encounter Saudi rulers on Monday evening but was leaving the talks on Tuesday to three top helpes.
In a encountering with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in evolve of the US-Ukraine talks, Zelenskyy converseed Ukraine’s conditions for any finishuring peace deal, including the free of prisoners and the return of children Kyiv accemploys Moscow of kidnaping, the Ukrainian directer’s office shelp in a statement on Monday.
The two directers “converseed the possible mediation of Saudi Arabia in the free of military and civilian prisoners and the return of deported children”, the statement shelp.
“The directers swapd watchs on the createats of security secures and what they should be for Ukraine so that war does not return aobtain,” it inserted.
