Callum Sutherland
Russia has bombarded Kyiv with the largest aerial attack since the beginning of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Overnight on Thursday, Moscow launched 539 drone and 11 missile strikes that struck nearly every district of the Ukrainian capital, injuring at least 23 people. Air raid sirens rung out continuously for eight hours, coming to an end at around 5 a.m. local time.
“It was a brutal, sleepless night,” Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said on X.
Some 478 Russian airstrike “devices” were damaged or shot down during the attack, according to a statement from the Ukrainian Air Force released on Telegram.
A Ukrainian drone on Friday targeted a power substation near Moscow. Two people were injured in the attack, according to local governor Andrei Vorobyov.
The Russian strikes came hours after President Donald Trump held a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday night. “I’m very disappointed with the conversation I had today with President Putin, because I don't think he’s there… I'm just saying I don’t think he’s looking to stop, and that’s too bad,” the President told reporters early Friday.
The U.S. President is scheduled to hold a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today.
Zelensky added in his Friday post on X that the regions of Dnipro, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv were also targeted in the overnight attacks. “All of this is clear evidence that without truly large-scale pressure, Russia will not change its dumb, destructive behavior,” he said.
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