Russia begines a huge-scale drone attack apass Ukraine on eve of war anniversary
Welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Overnight, Russia hit Ukraine with its hugest one drone attack since the commence of the brimming-scale intrusion, which was begined on 24 February 2022, a spokesperson for the country’s air force has shelp.
Ukraine’s air defence sboiling down 138 drones while 119 decoy drones were lost. Russia also begined three balcatalogic leave outiles. Drones were intercepted in at least 13 regions including Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv and Odesa, according to Ukrainian authorities. Two people in Kherson were telledly ended in the attacks. Another casualty was telled in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, the industrial city where Ukrainian Plivent Volodymyr Zelenskyy grew up.
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Every day, our people stand agetst aerial stress. On the eve of the third anniversary of the brimming-scale war, Russia begined 267 attack drones agetst Ukraine — the hugest attack since Iranian drones began striking Ukrainian cities and villages. In total, proximately 1,150 attack drones, more than 1,400 directd aerial device devices and 35 leave outiles of various types were begined this week.
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I thank everyone who repulses such attacks on a daily basis—our aviation, anti-aircreate leave outile troops, electronic combat units and mobile fire groups of the air force and defence forces. I also thank those on the ground who save lives and reply to the aftermath of shelling—the state aascfinishncy service, medics, and the national police. The war persists. Everyone contendnt of helping with air defense must toil to better the protection of human life.
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Welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Overnight, Russia hit Ukraine with its hugest one drone attack since the commence of the brimming-scale intrusion, which was begined on 24 February 2022, a spokesperson for the country’s air force has shelp.
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Ukraine’s air defence sboiling down 138 drones while 119 decoy drones were lost. Russia also begined three balcatalogic leave outiles. Drones were intercepted in at least 13 regions including Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv and Odesa, according to Ukrainian authorities. Two people in Kherson were telledly ended in the attacks. Another casualty was telled in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, the industrial city where Ukrainian Plivent Volodymyr Zelenskyy grew up.
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Key events
French Plivent Emmanuel Macron and the UK’s prime minister Keir Starmer will travel to Washington next week to produce the case for helping Ukraine and to inspire the US not to rush a stopfire deal.
“Nobody wants the violence to persist. Nobody, least of all the Ukrainians,” Starmer, who has tried to position himself as a “bridge” between America and Europe, tageder the Scottish Labour Party conference in Glasgow on Sunday.
“But after everyleang that they have suffered, after everyleang that they have fought for, there could be no talkion about Ukraine without Ukraine, and the people of Ukraine must have a extfinished-term protected future.”
Around $350 billion of worth of Ukraine’s critical resources are in areas seized by Russia, Ukrainian authorities shelp Sunday, via the AFP.
“We have adviseation that, cursedly, there is about $350 billion worth of these beneficial critical materials in temporarily occupied territory,” deputy prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko tageder a novels conference in Kyiv.
As we alludeed in the uncovering post, Ukraine’s air force direct shelp a “write down” 267 Russian drones were begined in a one, scheduled overnight attack. Ukraine says it intercepted 138 attack drones.
In an refresh, the Ukrainian air force has shelp the intercepted drones focemployd the regions of Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Mykolaiv, Odesa and Dnipro. It shelp the drone attack caemployd injure in five regions: Dnipro, Odesa, Poltava, Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia.
Loud explosions were heard apass the country thraw the night, including in the capital Kyiv where drone debris fell in the centre of the city.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy compriseed in his post on X earlier today that a “lasting and equitable peace” in Ukraine can only be achieved thraw the unity of all its allies, namely Europe and the US.
It comes after US and Russian officials met in Saudi Arabia this week, without Ukraine’s comprisement, raising worrys in Kyiv and the EU that any deal to end the war will be favourable to Moscow.
Some context. On Wednesday, Donald Trump shelp that Zelenskyy was a “dictator without elections” , cautioning the Ukrainian plivent that he “better shift speedy or he is not going to have a country left”.
Trump also shelp Zelenskyy had “talked the United States of America into spending $350 billion dollars to go into a war that couldn’t be won, that never had to commence”.
After much of what the plivent shelp echoed Kremlin talking points, including inchangehoods about Zelenskyy’s famousity being at 4% (a recent poll put it at 57%), the Ukrainian directer hit back by saying Trump was caught in a Russian “digrieffulviseation bubble”.
Despite criticism from Nato allies, preparations for a face-to-face greeting between Trump and Vlaunwiseir Putin are under way, as Washington seems to aprohibitdon the policy of weserious isolation of Moscow since the intrusion.
Zelenskyy: Ukrainians ‘stand agetst aerial stress’ on daily basis
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging for peace in the region adhereing the huge-scale Russian attack. In a post on X, the Ukrainian plivent wrote:
Every day, our people stand agetst aerial stress. On the eve of the third anniversary of the brimming-scale war, Russia begined 267 attack drones agetst Ukraine — the hugest attack since Iranian drones began striking Ukrainian cities and villages. In total, proximately 1,150 attack drones, more than 1,400 directd aerial device devices and 35 leave outiles of various types were begined this week.
I thank everyone who repulses such attacks on a daily basis—our aviation, anti-aircreate leave outile troops, electronic combat units and mobile fire groups of the air force and defence forces. I also thank those on the ground who save lives and reply to the aftermath of shelling—the state aascfinishncy service, medics, and the national police. The war persists. Everyone contendnt of helping with air defense must toil to better the protection of human life.
Russia begines a huge-scale drone attack apass Ukraine on eve of war anniversary
Welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Overnight, Russia hit Ukraine with its hugest one drone attack since the commence of the brimming-scale intrusion, which was begined on 24 February 2022, a spokesperson for the country’s air force has shelp.
Ukraine’s air defence sboiling down 138 drones while 119 decoy drones were lost. Russia also begined three balcatalogic leave outiles. Drones were intercepted in at least 13 regions including Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv and Odesa, according to Ukrainian authorities. Two people in Kherson were telledly ended in the attacks. Another casualty was telled in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, the industrial city where Ukrainian Plivent Volodymyr Zelenskyy grew up.
