The Russian Defense Ministry said its air defenses downed a series of Ukrainian drones targeting the Crimean Peninsula on Sunday. The same day, Ukraine reported intercepting dozens of Russian drones in the skies above Kyiv.
Voice of America – the US state media outlet – reported that Ukraine was targeted with over three dozen Russian drones on Sunday morning. It added the attack lasted two hours and caused debris to fall on the city.
Ukraine says it intercepted more than two dozen Russian drones. “Drones entered the capital in groups and from different directions. Air defense forces managed to destroy more than two dozen enemy UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles),” Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s military administration. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated one person was injured by the attack.
Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported eliminating eight Ukrainian drones targeting Crimea. The attack occurred while Russia held elections, including in Moscow-annexed Ukrainian regions. Moscow described the drone strikes as an attempt to sabotage the election.
Russian officials say one drone destroyed a polling center in the Zaporizhzhia region. The strike on the building occurred before the center opened and no one was in the voting center at the time.
Ukraine has engaged in a grueling three-month-long offensive, sustaining huge losses and gaining little territory. At the same time, Kyiv has stepped up long-range attacks on Russian territory, including Crimea. Early in the war, Washington sought to avoid Ukrainian attacks on Russia out of concern of the war with Moscow spiraling too far. However, NATO has sent Urkaine long-range weapons as Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russian territory.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
Dirtbags financing the actions of Dirtbags, a match made in Hades. Presidential dementia compliments Presidential meglomania.
But we can’t talk about how huge Ukraine’s losses are, because that is a closely guarded state secret. And if we knew, we might decide that sending them more weapons is not really helping them.
And yet the Ukrainians are still advancing…
“And the Ukrainians are still advancing.” YES TRUE….. But the question remains, just WHAT is it that they are advancing toward..?? A great victory or a crushing defeat as in the “Great Fall” which Hubris precedes…??????? Time will surely tell..!!!!
Is your ????????? Key stuck?
…….not really helping them BUT…??? has become a material tool of their genocide to clear out their agricultural resource just in time for its sale to Blackrock….!!!!!!??????
According to Einstein, it’s all relative. The “huge Ukraine’s losses” are not huge enough for Zelensky to end the war because he’s “winning it.” If the war ends today, I have no doubt Russia will be blamed for committing “Ukrainian Genocide of the 21st Century.” …Stop laughing! That’s not funny! What’s funny is, how could someone suffer genocide while “winning it?” (Sarcasm)
Dirtbags financing the actions of Dirtbags, a match made in Hades. Presidential dementia compliments Presidential meglomania.
“dirtbags financing the actions of dirtbags”
OMG sir you just described the entire western way of the world.
I agree with what you said. Except on behalf of “Dirtbags,” comparing such demonic warmongers to “Dirtbags” is a blatant insult to all “Dirtbags!” But in the spirit of antiwar, I hereby decline to enforce your penalty and give you the award for the most innovative post of the day. (Sarcasm)
I just don’t get Ukraine attacking Ukraine. Weren’t we told that those poor souls of Crimea are basically being held hostage by the Russians and they were forced at gunpoint to vote Russia’s way during the referendum?
PLAYING WITH FIRE OR PLAYING WITH MATCHES?
These drone attacks as time marches on appear to be seem as exercises in propaganda far more than actions of military significance. One is left to wonder if both sides have become all spent out of serious effect.
However we all must remain aware that Russia is able to act at any time of it’s choosing to take the pace up a notch or many, right up to flattening all Ukrainian cities and facilities