Russia strikes Ukraine with the largest air attack in the war

Russia has launched the most comprehensive air strikes for Ukraine since its extensive invasion, according to Kiev, indicating a sharp escalation in the Moscow campaign and additional fragile hopes to resolve negotiating the war now in its fourth year.

The Air Force said Ukraine Russia It had launched 537 amazing air weapons in one barrage overnight, began late on Saturday, including 477 drones, explosive months and 60 missiles of different types. Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 211 drones and 38 missiles.

The size of the attack is a great condensation in Russia’s strategy. Ukrainian officials say Moscow aims to systematically destroy the country’s air defense network and exhaust its western arsenal.

The Ukrainian Air Force said that one of its F-16 pilots, Lothanant General Colonel Maxim Austinko, was killed after his plane was damaged while it was shooting seven air targets. He added that he directed the plane away from the populated areas, but he was unable to go out in time.

To the south in Jiusson, the regional authorities said a man was killed in a drone. In Kharkiv, in the northeast, two men were killed when a drone was hit their car, according to the regional ruler. Residential buildings offer damage to many other cities.

In Kiev, the residents resorted to grenade shelters and metro stations in the depths of the Earth, while the Russian unmanned air defenses boom over them. Several missiles and drones hit a critical infrastructure in the West City of Lviv, located near the border with NATO member Poland, according to the mayor’s head.

Ukraine has partially used air defense fighter planes due to its decreasing supply with surface defense systems, air and interceptor missiles. The Trump administration has so far rejected the sale of Kyiv more than the precious national air defense systems, a few of which were provided in the security packages during the era of President Joe Biden.

Ukraine President Voludmir Zelinski called on Western partners to increase support for his Bephane, who stumbled in the war and repeated Kiev’s willingness to buy more air defense systems from Washington.

“Ukraine needs to strengthen air defense – something that protects the best lives,” Zelinski wrote on X.

“Moscow will not stop as long as it has the ability to make huge strikes,” he wrote, adding that “pressure on the aggressor is required” in the face of Russian air attacks and its summer attack.

He said that Russia attacked Ukraine with more than 114 missiles, more than 1,270 drones and about 1100 sliding bomb last week. He said that most of the drones that were launched overnight were Iranian suicide planes.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Rostam Omrov told the correspondents on Friday that Russia has increased missile and drone strikes in recent months. He said that Moscow’s goal is to “exhaust our air defense”, and “apply psychological pressure.”

Omrev said that Ukraine was “working systematically for years” to find effective solutions to confront Iranian designer drones.

“It was a continuous intellectual struggle.” He said, because of the constantly advanced Russia tactics. Russian drones based on Shahid Iran design are now faster and higher, higher than the scope of mobile air defense units in Ukraine. The drones also pack a larger warhead than the original used for the first time in October 2022.

Meanwhile, Olexander Serski, Ukraine’s Supreme Commander, warned that in the eastern battlefields, Russian forces were “trying to penetrate our defenses and advance in three operating directions.”

With the help of strong strong bombs and optical fiber drones, Russian forces have advanced there at the fastest pace since November and threaten to cordon off the strategic eastern cities in Kostyantynivka and Pokrovsk.

To the north, the Moscow forces are paid from the Russian Kursk region to the Sumeri region of Ukraine, which is almost within the scope of artillery in the regional capital.

The senior Ukrainian officials told the Financial Times that they expect the offensive and attacking campaign for Russia throughout the summer.

Zellinski said on X.

Zelenskyy also signed decree On Sunday to withdraw Ukraine from the Ottawa agreement, which prohibits the production and use of anti -knights.

Roman Kostenko, a member of Parliament and the military commander, said that there is a need for Parliament’s approval to end the withdrawal, but she described it as a “student step through the reality of war.”

“Russia is not a party to this agreement and uses mines widely against our army and civilians,” wrote on Facebook. “We cannot remain bound by restrictions when the enemy does not face anything.”