Russia is launching a huge attack on Ukraine while Kremlin says that its “fairly calm” about Trump’s growing criticism

Russia has launched its greatest drone attack on Ukraine In a single day since the start of the war over three years ago, when the Ukrainian Air Force said on Wednesday. In a statement, the Air Force said that Russia had drawn 728 Shahed and Lure drones, as well as 13 missiles during the night.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that in a social media position, most Russian drones had been suppressed by Ukrainian interceptor drones, but some of the weapons crossed air defenses. Ukrainian prosecutors were cited by the French news agency AFP, saying that five civilians had been killed by drones who struck private vehicles in the Far East of Rodynske, while three other people were killed about 10 minutes later in Kostiantynivka, around which the Russian forces closed.

Officials said two people were also injured in the kyiv region during the attack. Zelenskyy said the main target of Russian attacks, however, was the city in the northwest of Lutsk, which is near the Ukrainian border with Poland and Bélarus and is home to aerodromes used by the Ukrainian army.

Zelenskyy said the attack, “comes precisely at a time when so much effort was made to achieve peace, to establish a cease-fire, and yet only Russia continues to repel them all.”

The Russian massive strike one day after the president Trump is committed to sending more weapons to Ukraine And directly criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“I am not satisfied with Putin, I can tell you a lot at the moment, because he is killing a lot of people,” Trump told a meeting of the Tuesday cabinet in the White House.

The wish to increase arms deliveries to Ukraine came only a few days after the Pentagon announced that it Pause delivery of certain weapons shipments In Ukraine, citing concerns about the decrease in American stocks.

“We get a lot of B ******* launched by Putin,” Trump added on Tuesday. “It is very nice all the time, but it turns out that it does not make sense.”

Asked about criticism, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Wednesday that Moscow was “fairly calm on this subject,” said Reuters news agency.

In an article on social networks, Zelenskyy said that the immense Russian attack was “yet another proof” of the need for economic sanctions against Russia.

The last Russian attack came while Zelenskyy was to meet Trump’s envoy, Keith Kellogg, Italy, before a Ukrainian recovery conference from Rome, according to the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.

Zelenskyy also had to meet for the Second time with Pope Leo XIVAnd with other European leaders, while he seeks to persuade his international partners to increase both pressure on Russia and support for Ukraine.

The conference will see European and European political and business leaders to discuss the means to strengthen investments for the reconstruction of Ukraine torn by the war.