Russia launches the greatest attack of the drone war in Ukraine

Russia launched the largest drone attack in Ukraine on Saturday night, the day before the third anniversary of the war, Ukrainian officials said.

The spokesman for the country’s Air Force command, Yuriy Ignat, said that a “record” of 267 Russian drones were launched in a single coordinated attack.

Thirteen regions were attacked and, although many of the drones were repelled, which were not caused by infrastructure destruction and at least three victims, emergency services said.

The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, thanked Ukraine emergency services for his response to the attack and requested the support of Europe and us to facilitate “lasting and fair peace”.

Ukrainian officials said that the number of drones released on Saturday night was the highest figure in a single attack so far.

The Ukraine Air Force reported that 138 were demolished and 119, that they were lure drones, were lost without negative consequences, probably due to interference.

In Kyiv, the attack meant six hours of aerial alerts.

In a statement, Zelensky said that Russia launched 1,150 drones, 1,400 bombs and 35 missiles this week.

In a publication about X, the first lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, said “hundreds of drones” had “brought death and destruction” during the night.

“It was another night of explosions, burning of houses and cars, and destroyed the infrastructure,” he wrote. “Another night when people prayed for their loved ones to survive.”

According to the Ukrainian government and Western intelligence, Russia has been using IRANÍ manufacturing Shahed -136, also known as “kamikaze” drones, from the fall of 2022.

It was reported that drones were initially used to attack military objectives in the Kharkiv region, but since then they have been used to direct population centers and energy infrastructure.

Iran has previously said that it only supplied a “small number” of drones to Russia before the war, but the United States and the EU have accused Iran of sending regular deliveries of drones to Russia.

On Saturday, two people died in a strike in a residential building in Kherson, in southern Ukraine, a man and a mother of twins, said the emergency services of the state of Ukraine.

The regional authorities also confirmed that a man died and at least three were injured after a strike in the central city of Kryvyi Rih.

Meanwhile, a 53 -year -old woman was hospitalized after being injured in a drone attack in Zaporizhzhia, and firefighters were called to extinguish multiple fires in the capital, kyiv.

The mayor of kyiv, Vitali Kltischko, wrote on Telegram that multiple wave drones attacks had damaged several houses and cars, but there were no immediate reports of injuries.

The drones were intercepted in at least 13 regions, including Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, kyiv, Chernihiv, Mykolayiv and Odesa, according to the Ukrainian authorities.

The Ukraine Air Force also reported that Russia launched three ballistic missiles during the night.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Sunday that 20 Ukrainian drones launched to Russia were “destroyed” during the night.

On Monday, the war will enter its third year.

As does, diplomatic disputes on a possible peace agreement continue, with Ukraine, European allies and the United States that offer different visions on how to put an end to the conflict.

He The United States and Russia made preliminary conversations in Saudi Arabia This week, without delegates from Europe, including Ukraine, present, which resulted in European leaders to have a hurriedly starting summit in Paris.

Zelensky criticized the exclusion of Ukraine from the conversations of the United States and Russia, saying that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, was “living in a disinformation space” governed by Moscow, which led Trump to respond for Calling the Ukrainian President a “dictator”.

French president Emmanuel Macron Visit Washington is expected on Monday, while the United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will be there on Thursday.

Sir Keir has publicly backed Zelensky, Reiterating the “IRONCLADA SUPPORT” of the United Kingdom for KyivAnd he said he would discuss the importance of Ukraine’s sovereignty when he speaks to Trump.

Pope Francis – that is in the hospital with respiratory disease – He wrote in a comments released on Sunday that the third anniversary of the war was “a painful and shameful occasion for all humanity.”