The anti -aircraft alarm sounded in the last midnight and, for the first time in months, many citizens of kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, gathered in the Metro stations. There were women with chairs and pillows through the streets to spend the night refugees. There was fear in Ukraine for revenge that Russian president, Vladimir Putin ,. kyiv has suffered the largest bombing of the year, a 2025 that is being a record in intensity of Russian long -range attacks away from the front.
President Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, has reported that the enemy shot more than 400 bomb drones and more than 40 missiles. This is a new record in the use of weapons for a long -range attack in the more than three years of war. .
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have issued a statement in which they quantify that 407 drones and 45 rockets were triggered. 36 of these were KH-101, one of the most lethal cruise missiles of the Russian air forces, fired precisely from bombing aircraft such as Tu-95ms, which were target last Sunday.
“It is time for the United States, Europe and everyone to stop this war by pressing Russia,” Zelenski written on his social networks, “if someone does not press Russia, they are giving the war more time to charge lives, and this is complicity and responsibility.” The words of the Ukrainian president are a message especially for the president of the United States, Donald Trump, reluctant to apply new sanctions on Moscow and to facilitate armament to Ukraine.
The explosions have been reproduced throughout the country until six in the morning, especially in the capital. Shahed pump drones, ballistic and cruise missiles concentrated on kyiv. Four people died in the city, three of them, firefighters of the state emergency service that worked in a flame building. There were also 20 injured in kyiv, according to local authorities. Zelenski raised the number of wounded throughout the country to 49.
The Kremlin reiterated this week that the last Ukrainian sabotage operations within Russia would not happen without punishment. “President Putin told me, in a very hard way, that,” Trump said Wednesday after a telephone interview with his Russian counterpart.
Putin thus referred to the bold Ukrainian attack from within Russia, with a hundred pump drones camouflaged in trucks, which destroyed Sunday between 15 and 40 military strategic planes. The Russian leader added on Wednesday that his response would also be overwhelming for the sabotage that this week carried out the security services of Ukraine (SSU), annexed illegally in 2014.
Putin also added to the “terrorist” actions of the Ukrainian government that must be punished the derailment of two trains last weekend in the Russian provinces of Kursk and Briansk, and that caused at least seven dead. Moscow assumes that they were actions of the Ukrainian forces. kyiv keeps silence about what happened.
The bombardment of this morning has affected housing buildings, civil infrastructure and industrial centers of nine provinces of Ukraine, also the farthest from the front, such as Lviv, Ternopil or Volinia.
The question now is whether Putin will continue with new similar attacks or perform some size operation to demonstrate the power of his army. In the last week of May, three consecutive days were already reported in which Russia triggered a record number of drones long -range bomb against the entire Ukrainian territory.
After the blow of the SSU Sunday against Russian airfields, Ukram information channels on Telegram have been a hotbed of rumors about the use by the Kremlin of their most lethal weapon ,. Russia already fired the Orshnik in 2024, in the province of Dnipró, the first time that an atomic power used this type of weapons in history.
These bombings and the Russian offensive in the front coincide with the negotiation attempts of a high fire in the two bilateral meetings that have been held with the mediation of Türkiye since May. Both kyiv and its European allies assume that Putin does not intend to subscribe a truce because the conditions it raises for it are unassumable to the assaulted country. What should occur, this weekend as Zelenski announced, agreed at the last Istanbul meeting.
