Russia Defies Trump With Largest-Ever Drone-and-Missile Attack on Ukraine
By HatetheSwamp May 26, 2025 8:48 am Category: International
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pb's been the most hawkish supporter of US involvement with Ukraine from before Russian troops crossed the border. While lots of you were praising Biden's handling of Ukraine, ole pb has been screaming: THIS IS WEAK AND INEPT. It was.
Trump needs to poop or get off the pot in doing everything short of sending US troops into battle, including draconian tariffs on the EU if its members continue to purchase oil and natural gas from Russia.
I think Zelenskyy is a thuggish dictator himself but I stand with the people of Ukraine.
Kyiv says more than 350 explosive drones targeted its cities overnight
Russia launched its largest-ever drone-and-missile assault on Ukraine overnight into Monday, according to Ukrainian officials, defying President Trump’s calls for an end to the bombardment.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched more than 350 explosive drones and at least nine cruise missiles. Kyiv scrambled aircraft and deployed electronic warfare systems and mobile air-defense teams throughout the country in response, the government said.
“He has gone absolutely CRAZY! He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers,” Trump said late Sunday in a social-media post, referring to Putin. “Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever.”
He also criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying in the same post that Zelensky “is doing his Country no favors by talking the way he does.”
The Kremlin said Monday’s strikes were a response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory, which Moscow said involved dozens of drones over the weekend. Ukrainian officials said the strikes damaged several Russian military-industrial facilities, including a factory that makes parts for ballistic missiles.
The latest exchange of missile-and-drone attacks comes as efforts to end the war have reached something of an impasse. Russia last month dismissed a proposed 30-day cease-fire that was brokered by Trump and accepted by Ukraine, and has insisted that Kyiv first agree to discuss its disarmament and the abandonment of its aspirations to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Russia has been expanding its military-industrial complex, turning shopping malls into drone production facilities and expanding a factory that specializes in making Shahed strike drones with help from Iran, a Russian ally.
Russia has also evolved in its methods of evading Ukraine’s air defenses. The drone attacks it launches now feature an array of decoy projectiles that are meant to imitate strike drones but carry no explosives. Ukraine uses up expensive air defense missiles and ammunition to shoot them down.
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