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Washington Post
5 days ago
- General
- Washington Post
After Putin call, Trump suggests Ukraine, Russia should ‘fight for a while'
President Donald Trump's comment about inevitable Russian retaliation following his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin has been widely interpreted in Russia as a tacit endorsement of Moscow's right to strike back after a spectacular Ukrainian drone operation, without even a note of caution about civilian casualties. It was turnaround for Trump after recent Russia-related posts on Truth Social had reprimanded Putin for strikes against civilians, but as has happened after past phone calls between the two leaders, Putin appeared to have swayed Trump over to his views on the conflict. Trump called it a good conversation, 'but not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace. President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields.'
Russia Today
03-06-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
WATCH Russian kamikaze UAV take out Ukrainian naval drone
Russian drone operators have published footage of a successful interception of a Ukrainian naval suicide drone during an attack on the Crimean Bridge on Tuesday. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has claimed responsibility for the attack. Local news reported that air defenses destroyed three aerial drones over the bridge in the early hours of Tuesday, but added that normal traffic resumed later in the day. In a video released by the Telegram channel Russian Airborne, a Ukrainian unmanned naval drone can be seen speeding across the water. The view from above closes in as the Russian first-person-view (FPV) aerial drone dives down on the Ukrainian suicide vessel. In later footage, taken from a second UAV, the Lancet can be seen impacting and disabling the Ukrainian naval drone, after which it coasts to a stop. The Russian Transport Ministry reported that while the bridge had to be closed twice over the course of the day, normal traffic had resumed as of Tuesday evening. In a statement, the SBU has claimed it had detonated some 1,100 kg of explosives around some of the structure's underwater supports that had been placed there in advance. According to local news sources, the more likely scenario was that Kiev attempted two waves of attacks with a combination of air, naval and undewater drones but was unable to inflict significant damage on the bridge. The Defense Ministry in Moscow has not released an official statement on the incident. Ukraine has repeatedly tried but failed to destroy the critical structure linking Crimea and mainland Russia since the escalation of the conflict in 2022. The bridge did sustain damage twice, in 2022 and 2023, in attacks that caused civilian casualties.
