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Reuters
4 days ago
- Politics
- Reuters
Russia says it will repair bombers damaged by Ukraine's drones
MOSCOW, June 5 (Reuters) - Russian aircraft were damaged but not destroyed in a June 1 attack by Ukraine, and they will be restored, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in an interview with the state news agency TASS. "The equipment in question, as was also stated by representatives of the Ministry of Defence, was not destroyed but damaged. It will be restored," Ryabkov said. The United States assesses that Ukraine's drone attack over the weekend hit as many as 20 Russian warplanes, destroying around 10 of them, two U.S. officials told Reuters, a figure that is about half the number estimated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump in a telephone conversation on Wednesday that Moscow would have to respond to the June 1 attack.
Bloomberg
5 days ago
- General
- Bloomberg
Trump Says Putin Call Won't Lead to 'Immediate Peace'
Bloomberg's Nick Wadhams breaks down President Trump's 'contradictory' post recounting his phone call with Russia's Vladimir Putin. Trump indicated Putin would retaliate for a drone strike carried out by Ukraine earlier this week. (Source: Bloomberg)
South China Morning Post
5 days ago
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- South China Morning Post
Trump says Putin vowed retaliation for Ukraine drone attacks on Russian airfields
Russian President Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump in a telephone conversation on Wednesday that Moscow would have to respond to the recent Ukrainian drone attacks, the US president said. Trump said the two men 'discussed the attack on Russia's docked airplanes, by Ukraine, and also various other attacks that have been taking place by both sides'. Putin 'did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields', Trump said in a social media post. Trump said it 'was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate peace'. Moscow said earlier on Wednesday that military options were 'on the table' for its response to Ukrainian attacks deep inside Russia and accused the West of being involved in them. A satellite image shows the aftermath of a drone strike at the Belaya airbase, Irkutsk region, on Wednesday. Image: Maxar Technologies via Reuters Russia also urged the US and Britain to restrain Kyiv after the attacks, which Ukrainian officials have lauded as showing Kyiv can still fight back after more than three years of war.
The Guardian
25-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Ukraine war live: At least 12 killed in Russia's largest air attack to date
Update: Date: 2025-05-25T07:53:36.000Z Title: At least 12 people killed in one the heaviest Russian air attacks on Ukraine since war started Content: At least 12 people have been killed after Russian forces launched a huge overnight drone attack across Ukraine, officials said. Three children – aged 8, 12 and 17 years old – were killed in Zhytomyr, west of Kyiv, four people in the Kyiv region were killed, one in Mykolaiv in the south, and four in the Khmelnytskyi region, according to officials and reports. The Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, was a particular focus of the drone strikes. The city's mayor Vitali Klitschko said it was 'under attack' but reassured people that the 'air defences are operating' as they should. Ukraine's air force said on Sunday that Russia attacked the country with 298 drones and 69 missiles overnight, one of the largest aerial attacks since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. It said it downed 45 missiles and 266 drones. It was 'the most massive strike in terms of the number of air attack weapons on the territory of Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022,' Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesperson for Ukraine's air force, told the Associated Press. Russian air defences, meanwhile, intercepted 110 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 13 over the Moscow and Tver regions, the country's defence ministry said. There were no immediate reports of casualties. In Moscow, restrictions were imposed on at least four airports, including the main hub Sheremetyevo, the Russian civilian aviation authority said. As my colleague Peter Beaumont notes in this story, the air raids came as Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds more prisoners Saturday in a continuing major swap that amounted to a rare moment of cooperation amid otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire. The previous night, Russia launched a large-scale drone and missile attack against Kyiv, injuring at least 15 people, according to officials, in what was one of the heaviest assaults since the start of the Russian invasion.
