Ukraine launched its most extensive drone attack on the Russian capital city of Moscow Sunday, injuring one person and forcing three significant airports to divert flights, officials said.
Moscow’s regional governor, Andrei Vorobyov, called it a “massive attack” by 34 drones and said two houses in the village of Stanovoye, 15 miles (24 kilometers) southeast of the city, had caught fire after the drones fell.
He said a 52-year-old woman was in intensive care after she was injured by shrapnel and hospitalized with burns to her face, neck and hands.
For its part, Russia launched a record 145 drones overnight, Ukraine said. Kyiv said its air defenses downed 62 of those.
Ukraine also said it attacked an arsenal in the Bryansk region of Russia, which reported 14 drones had been downed in the area.
Unverified Russian video footage on social media showed drones buzzing across the skyline. Russia said that in all its air defenses, she shot down 70 drones, nearly half of them in the skies above Moscow and the rest in western Russia.
The situation did not improve Monday when parts of Kyiv were left without power after Ukraine’s air force put the whole country under air raid alerts following the launch of Russian missile attacks. “The air alert is related to the launch of cruise missiles from Tu-95MS strategic bombers,” the Air Force said on social media.
Witnesses reported blasts in the Ukrainian capital in what sounded like air defense systems in operation.
Russian air strikes killed at least six people in southern Ukraine, authorities said on Monday.
Yet amid the clashes, Moscow and Ukraine expressed openness for a Trump-brokered peace deal.
‘STOP WARS’
Though Trump pledged to “stop wars” in his first speech after his victory over Kamala Harris became apparent last week, analysts say there are no settled outlines of a peace plan yet, giving Kyiv breathing space to press its own case.
However, Ukrainian officials hope it will not lead to a “humiliating defeat.”
With little more than two months left in the White House, Joe Biden is running out of time to expedite the delivery of funds and weaponry needed to ensure Ukraine can stay in the fight against the Russian invasion.
The White House says it is transferring weapons and up to $6 billion in remaining aid to Ukraine as quickly as possible.
Kyiv has reportedly urged the White House to repeal restrictions on long-range weaponry and find other funding sources for the war before Donald J. Trump enters office in January.
Yet the prospect of a major change in Ukraine policy under Trump made it unlikely that Biden’s serious changes would remain in place under the next administration.
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