Russia has attacked Kyiv and other regions of Ukraine with drones and missiles over the weekend, forcing residents to take shelter and resulting in 11 people injured. The attacks came as Kyiv was celebrating a holiday, reports Magyar Nemzet.
The Ukrainian Air Force warned the population late on May 24 that Russia had launched drone attacks on several regions and also warned of a missile attack before midnight. Footage on social media shows drones striking near shelters, and air raid alerts were in effect throughout the country.
Local authorities reported explosions in Kyiv, Odessa, Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Konyotop, Chernihiv and Kharkiv.
“A crashing drone caused a fire in a student dormitory building, injuring four people. A business center was also damaged in the Shevchenkivskyi district.
“The ages of the injured ranged from 18 to 62 years,” said Kyiv’s military administration.
The mayor of Kharkiv reported that an office building was hit and several residential buildings had their windows broken. A child was also injured by glass fragments.
In response to the attacks, Poland sent fighter jets to secure its airspace.
The previous night, Russia carried out a large-scale drone and missile attack on Kyiv, resulting in at least 15 injuries and damaging residential buildings.
In response to the escalation, which came as Russia and Ukraine completed a prisoner swap, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told ARD’s Bericht aus Berlin program that “President Vladimir Putin is not interested in peace, he wants the war to continue, which we must not allow, and for which the European Union will impose further sanctions.”
The minister also held out hope for further punitive measures from the U.S. that would force Putin to the negotiating table.
Some are vocal about Putin’s last desperate attempts at victory. The Washington Post has a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency assessment presented to Congress, which stated that the conflict will “slowly trend in Russia’s favor through 2025,” albeit “at the expense of high personnel and equipment losses.”
It also cited Richard Barrons, the former head of Britain’s Joint Forces Command, who said: “Russia is very gradually taking bits of territory still, but at an unsustainably high cost.”
Meanwhile, Zelensky has taken the opportunity to come out swinging at Putin: “With every such strike, the world sees more clearly that it is Moscow that’s prolonging this war,” he said, calling for increased pressure via sanctions to disable Putin’s war chest.
While WaPo claims D.C. is in denial, bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Senate to impose massive sanctions against Putin, including a 500 percent tariff on goods imported from countries that buy Russian products, including oil and gas.
Social media has been abuzz with U.S. President Trump’s post calling Putin “absolutely crazy,” and the American leader has said he is “absolutely” considering increased sanctions.
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