During the night of Monday to Tuesday, Ukraine launched more than one hundred drones on Russia, targeting Moscow and disturbing several airports. The Kremlin threatened to retaliate immediately if Ukraine attacks during the three-day ceasefire ordered by Vladimir Putin. This escalation occurs a few days before the Russian military parade on May 9.
Ukraine launched overnight Monday to Tuesday more than a hundred drones on Russian territory, targeting Moscow in particular and temporarily disrupting the operation of a dozen airports, three days from the commemorations of victory over Nazi Germany.
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In the process, the Kremlin warned that the Russian army would respond “immediately” in the event of a Ukrainian attack during the unilateral ceasefire ordered by Vladimir Putin from May 8 to 10, that his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky recently described as “attempted manipulation”.
Ukraine, after more than three years of a Russian offensive which led to the death of tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers, still pleads, under pressure from Washington, for an “unconditional” stop of hostilities before negotiations with Russia. Moscow, on the contrary, wants concrete commitments on his requests before any overall end of hostilities.
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Fears before the parade
It is in this uncertain diplomatic and military context that Moscow, which welcomed a large military parade on Friday in the presence of Vladimir Putin and around twenty foreign leaders, was the target in the night from Monday to Tuesday of Ukrainian explosive drones. According to its mayor Sergei Sobianine, 19 devices having targeted the capital were intercepted by the anti -aircraft defense, raising fears of the multiplication of this type of attack in the coming days.
Drone debris fell on a large avenue south of Moscow, without making victims, according to Sergei Sobianine. The Russian media broadcast images of a cracked supermarket showcase and a blackened facade of residential building. In total, Russia was attacked overnight by 105 Ukrainian drones, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
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Four capital airports – Cheremétievo, Domodedovo, Vnoukovo and Joukovski – imposed provisional restrictions during the night, some tracks, according to the Russian Civil Aviation Agency Rossaviatsia. The activities of several other Russian airports had to be suspended, notably in several major cities on the Volga such as Nijni Novgorod, Samara, Saratov and Volgograd.
Mise a Guard you Kremlin
At the end of the morning, the Kremlin warned Ukraine, ensuring that its truce between Thursday and Saturday remained “topical”: “If the kyiv regime is not the same (stop fighting, editor’s note) and continues to try to strike our positions or our facilities, an adequate response will be immediately given,” threatened the spokesperson for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov, during His briefing.
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The Ukrainian “position” is focused on the continuation of the war, “he deplored. On Saturday, Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the “theatrical performance” of Vladimir Putin, acting the rejection of kyiv concerning this suspension for three days of the fights ordered without consultation by the master of the Kremlin, during the commemorations of victory over Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
In the Red Square, the Russian authorities planned for a large -scale parade on Friday. Ukrainian diplomacy exhorted foreign troops on Tuesday not to participate in these celebrations: “Walking with (the Russians) is sharing the responsibility for the blood of Ukrainian children, civilians and military,” she denounced in a statement.
Vladimir Putin had already unilaterally decreed, on the occasion of the Pascal weekend in April, a short ceasefire, which had led to a drop in intensity of clashes without being completely respected by the two camps. He has always refused to stop unopacked of 30 days, as proposed by kyiv and Washington.
On the Ukrainian side, a Russian bombardment carried out by drones killed one in the region of Odessa (South), according to its governor Oleg Kiper. Another person was killed and two other injured, including a “seriously”, in a Russian strike on Kramatorsk, very close to the Eastern Front, local authorities also said.
The authorities of the Kherson region have announced the death of a 55 -year -old woman in a Russian bombardment. In the east still, the Russian army claimed Tuesday the capture of the locality of Lyssivka. Russians and Ukrainians also announced that they had exchanged 205 prisoners of war from each camp.
