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London – Russian drones and rockets bombed cities throughout Ukraine again on Saturday evening to Sunday morning, although the greatest prisoner exchange of the 3-year war was completed.
The operational command of the armed forces in Poland – a NATO nation that borders Ukraine in the west – said on a Sunday morning post to X that his fighter jets were confused during the Russian attack. “Intensive activities of the long -term aviation of the Russian Federation have been observed, which are associated with strikes in relation to objects in the western area of ​​Ukraine,” the explanation said.
According to Ukraine’s Air Force, Russia started a total of 367 “air raid vehicles” – including Nine Iskander Ballistic rockets, 56 cruise rockets, four guided air wing and 298 attack drones – on goals across the country.
According to the Air Force, 45 cruise rocks and 266 drones were shot down during the attack or neutralized in other ways.
“Most of the regions of Ukraine were affected by the enemy attack,” wrote the Air Force, with strikes at 22 locations and rounded cruise tracts or strikes, which were reported at 15 locations.
In a statement by Ukraine, the Interior Ministry of Ukraine said that at least 18 people were killed – including three children from the same family – and 85 people. More than 80 residential buildings were damaged and 27 fires were recorded, she added.
Rescue workers delete fires in the ruins of a house that was destroyed on May 25, 2025 in a Russian rocket strike in Markhalivka in the Kyiv region of Ukraine.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on social media early Sunday: “Today, the rescuers worked in more than 30 Ukrainian cities and villages after Russia’s massive strike.”
“These were deliberate strikes for normal cities,” continued Zelenskyy. “Ordinary residential buildings were destroyed and damaged. In Kyiv, sleepers from the university’s history department were hit. There were also strikes on companies. Tragically, people were killed, including children.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that the attacks were “a massive strike at sea, air, landing-based precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against companies in the Ukrainian military industry complex, the rocket weapon components, radio electronics, explosive radio materials, rocket fuel and striking rosances and satellites of the Ukrainian centers and satellites Make the active ingredients and satellites of the active ingredient centers and satellites of the well and satellite tentente.
“The goals of the strike were achieved,” said the ministry in a post in telegram. “All designated goals were hit.”
The most recent attack is the fourth night in a row, in which Russia launched more than 100 rockets and drones to Ukraine Pro Ukrainian Air Force numbers. Although long -term attacks have occurred in the past few months, the recent bombing of Russia was remarkable for their scale.
Ukraine also continues its own drone attacks in Russia, with the Ministry of Defense in Moscow reporting the decline of 110 Ukrainian drones overnight.
The mirrors came on Friday despite the beginning of a multi -day prisoner exchange process. According to Zelenskyy, around 1,000 soldiers were expected to be exchanged from both sides, with the process being completed from Sunday morning.
The prisoner exchange was the largest since Moscow’s invasion began in February 2022. Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners during the conflict, although they do not agree to agree on a permanent ceasefire.
The American peace talks since President Donald Trump’s return to the office did not meet in January, with both Kyiv and Moscow accused of negotiations.
Ukraine calls for a full 30-day armistice in which peace talks can take place. Zelenskyy has repeatedly ruled out in every peace agreement to hand over territory to Moscow.
Nevertheless, Trump’s threats to new sanctions against Russia – nevertheless not realized, despite the Ukrainian and European calling on American pressure on President Vladimir Putin – do not seem to reduce the Kremlin from its maximum war goals, which essentially to equate Ukrainian surrender.
An explosion of a drone shines during a Russian attack on May 25, 2025 via Kyiv, Ukraine, about Kyiv, Ukraine.
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These demands include the annexation of four partially occupied Ukrainian regions of regions and the storage of Crimea, the 2014 sequence of demilitarization, a permanent block for the Ukrainian accession to NATO and the “denazification” of the country, which is based on the wrong representation of the Ukrainian government as a load-fighting dikator.
The Ukrainian leaders quoted Russia’s continuing massaged strikes as proof that Moscow is not real in his peace complaints.
“Each of these terrorist Russian strikes is a sufficient reason for new sanctions against Russia,” said Zelenskyy on Sunday. “Russia pulls out this war and kills every day. The world can go during a weekend break, but the war continues, regardless of weekends and weekdays. This cannot be ignored. The silence of others all over the world only encourages Putin.”
“Without really strong pressure on Russian leadership, this brutality cannot be stopped,” he added. “Sanctions will certainly help. Determined people are now important – the determination of the United States, the European countries and all around the world who are looking for peace. The world knows all the weaknesses of the Russian economy.”
“The war can be stopped, but only through the necessary pressure on Russia,” said Zelenskyy. “Putin must be forced not to think about starting rockets, but to end the war.”
Andriy Yermak – the head of Zelenskyy’s office – wrote on the telegram early Sunday, “there is murders instead of a ceasefire.”
“Nothing will change without pressure and Russia and its allies will only build forces for such murders in western countries,” continued Yermak. “Moscow will fight as long as the ability to produce weapons.”