Russia launched 85 attack drones and a ballistic missile against Ukraine territory, the Ukraine Air Force said on Saturday (16).
The front line territories in the regions of Sumy, Donetsk, Chernihiv, and Dnipropetrovsk were the target of the night attacks, the Air Force said in the Telegram Message Application. The air defense units destroyed 61 of the drones.
The General Staff of the Ukraine Armed Forces said in his morning daily report that 139 clashes occurred on the front line on the last day.
The attack with drones comes after a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump.
Trump stated that the summit in Alaska yielded “progress” in negotiations, but did not detail any kind of agreement.
Understand the war in Ukraine
Russia began the large -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and currently has about one fifth from the territory of the neighboring country.
Still in 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin decreed the annexation of four Ukrainian regions: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizehzia.
The Russians slowly advance through the east and Moscow gives no signs of abandoning their main war goals. Meanwhile, Donald Trump, president of the United States, pressures for a peace agreement.
Ukraine has made increasingly bold attacks within Russia and says the operations aim to destroy essential infrastructure of the Russian army.
Putin’s government, in turn, intensified air attacks, including drones offensive.
Both sides deny the target of civilians, but thousands died in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainians
.Stone also thousands of soldiers died on the front line, but neither side releases numbers of military lows.
The United States claim that 1.2 million people were injured or killed in the war.
