- Russia has drawn “355 Shahed type drones”, nine cruise missiles.
- A range of missiles improved for Ukraine would be dangerous: Kremlin.
- Trump calls Putin “crazy” in the rare reprimand of the Russian leader.
Russia dismissed its greatest drone dam in Ukraine, authorities announced on Monday, just hours after Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin “crazy” and warned that Moscow risked new sanctions if it maintained its fatal bombardment.
The American president sought to negotiate the end of the three -year war, but failed to extract major concessions from the Kremlin, despite repeated negotiations and several telephone calls between him and the president of Russia.
For three consecutive nights, Russia beat Ukraine with large -scale drone attacks, saturating its air defenses and killing at least 13 people on Sunday, officials said.
Russia has drawn “355 Shahed type drones”, including lures, in the largest drone attack in the invasion between Sunday evening and early on Monday, as well as nine cruise missiles, said the Air Force of Ukraine.
The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday that there were no more restrictions of scope “on the weapons provided by the Western allies to Ukraine, allowing kyiv to attack” military positions in Russia “.
It was not immediately clear when the decision was made or which countries had changed their policy.
The Kremlin said that any Western decision to raise limits for the scope of weapons issued to Ukraine would be “dangerous” and “disagree” with peace efforts.
In a rare reprimand of the Russian leader, Trump said on social networks on Sunday evening: “I have always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something happened to him. He got absolutely crazy!”
“I always said that he wanted everything Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe it turns out to be well, but if it does it, it will lead to the fall of Russia!”
Earlier, Trump told journalists that he was “not satisfied” with the attacks of Russia against Ukraine and that we consider “absolutely” of increasing sanctions against Moscow.
French president Emmanuel Macron said he hoped that Trump’s anger in Moscow was treating “in action”, and that the American president realized that Putin was not ready for peace.
‘Critical moment’
The Kremlin played Trump’s criticism, saying Putin took measures “necessary to ensure the security of Russia”.
“It is a very critical moment, which is responsible for emotional stress for everyone, as well as emotional reactions,” said journalists, spokesperson for the Kremlin.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attacks showed that Russia had a feeling of “impunity”.
“The increase in Russian strikes should be greeted by increased sanctions,” he said on social networks.
The invasion of Ukraine by Moscow in February 2022 killed tens of thousands of people, destroyed cities and cities and stimulated the greatest crisis in relations with the West since the Cold War.
Kyiv did not report any death after the last drone attack, but said Russian bombing in the last 24 hours had killed a civilian in the northern region of Sumy.
Ukrainian spokesperson Air Force, Yuriy Ignat, warned that it became difficult to counter the number of drones Moscow drew.
“We need rational and cheaper ways to shoot them down,” he said on Ukrainian television.
A Ukrainian military source said AFP That Kyiv was fighting in a way with the available air defense capabilities and that there was “no need to panic”.
“To maintain our defense, we need Western weapons deliveries,” said the source, adding that patriotic missile deliveries as well as average-range air defense systems and Iris-T with short range were particularly important for Ukraine.
Russia said it had captured two border villages in the Sumy region, where it has been riding an offensive for weeks.
Diplomatic efforts
Diplomatic efforts to end the war have increased in recent weeks, Russian and Ukrainian officials organizing direct talks in Istanbul earlier this month for the first time in three years.
They each returned 1,000 people during the weekend in their greatest exchange of prisoners, while Russia said that it was preparing a document describing its conditions of peace.
Other more potential POW exchanges would depend on new talks with Ukraine, said Peskov before Putin’s meeting with Turkish Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan, adding that Moscow still worked on a ceasefire memorandum.
Moscow has repeatedly rejected the proposals for a ceasefire 30 days of kyiv and its Western allies, while grinding forward.
Instead, Putin proposed to work on a memorandum indicating conditions of a ceasefire, arousing the criticism of Ukraine to block the talks.
The SBU security service of Ukraine said on Monday that it had arrested several people, including a teenager, for having acted as “informants” for Moscow, guiding the Russian strikes in the country.
