Ukraine-Russia struggle newest: Kyiv’s giant scale drone assault on Moscow ‘entirely justified’, says Zelensky

At least two have been killed and 41 others in Russian attacks on Ukraine since Saturday, according to the Kyiv Independent.

According to the reports, Russia launched 287 attack drones overnight, Ukraine’s Air Force said, adding that 279 drones were shot down or suppressed by air defenses. Eight drones struck seven locations.

In Kherson Oblast, in Southern Ukraine, one person was killed and 15 others injured, including a child, local authorities reported.

Russian attacks in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, killed one civilian, according to Governor Vadym Filashkin.

Russia’s foreign ministry accused Kyiv of targeting civilians.

“To the sound of Eurovision songs, the Kyiv regime, financed by the EU, carried out yet another mass terrorist attack,” TASS news agency cited the ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying.

Both sides in the conflict deny deliberately targeting civilians.

At least four people were killed, including ​three in the Moscow region, after Ukraine launched its biggest overnight drone attack on the Russian capital in more than a year, local officials said on Sunday.

A fourth person was killed in the Belgorod region bordering northeastern Ukraine, local authorities said, while Russia’s defence ministry said by midday more than 1,000 Ukrainian drones had been downed over the country in the past 24 hours.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had vowed retribution on Friday following Russia’s heaviest drone and missile attack on Kyiv over a two-day period ⁠since the war started more than four years ​ago.

Confirming the attack, Zelenskyy post a video on X of a drone in flight, columns of black smoke and fire crews trying to extinguish the flames. “Our ⁠responses to Russia’s prolongation of the war and its attacks on our cities ​and communities ⁠are entirely justified,” Zelenskiy said.

An unexploded projectile was discovered on a property in southeastern Romania near the European Union and NATO member’s border with Ukraine on Saturday, its defence ministry said.

According to reports from Reuters, the ministry described an unguided reactive projectile was found in the yard of an uninhabited house in the village of Pardina in Romania’s Tulcea county, it said in a statement.

The ministry did not indicate its suspected origin.

“Technical verifications confirmed the presence of 2 kg worth of ⁠explosives in the projectile’s body,” the statement said, adding that the area’s perimeter had been secured.

Last month, an explosive drone landed in a backyard in the city of Galati, marking the first time since the start of the Ukraine war that such an incident had damaged property in Romania.

At least four people were killed, including ​three in the Moscow region, after Ukraine launched its biggest overnight drone attack on the Russian capital in more than a year, local officials said on Sunday.

A fourth person was killed in the Belgorod region bordering northeastern Ukraine, local authorities said, while Russia’s defence ministry said by midday more than 1,000 Ukrainian drones had been downed over the country in the past 24 hours.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had vowed retribution on Friday following Russia’s heaviest drone and missile attack on Kyiv over a two-day period ⁠since the war started more than four years ​ago.

Confirming the attack, Zelenskyy post a video on X of a drone in flight, columns of black smoke and fire crews trying to extinguish the flames. “Our ⁠responses to Russia’s prolongation of the war and its attacks on our cities ​and communities ⁠are entirely justified,” Zelenskiy said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on a two-day trip to Beijing next week, the Kremlin said Saturday.The announcement comes less than 24 hours after U.S. President Donald Trump finished his own state visit to China, where he also met Xi to discuss trade and the U.S. and Israel’s war in Iran.

In a statement, the Kremlin said that Putin’s trip, planned for May 19-20, had been scheduled to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship.

It said that the two leaders would discuss bilateral relations as well as “key international and regional issues” and economic cooperation.

One Indian worker lost his life and three others were injured in a drone attack in the Moscow region on Sunday, the Indian embassy in Russia said in a post on social media site, X.

Embassy ‌officials have visited the ⁠location, met the injured workers in the hospital, and are working with ‌local authorities to ​provide ‌necessary assistance ⁠to the ⁠workers, the ‌statement added.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said his responses to Russia’s “prolongation” of war are “ entirely justified” as Ukraine launched an overnight drone attack on Moscow.

Posting on social media site X, he said: “Our responses to Russia’s prolongation of the war and its attacks on our cities and communities are entirely justified. This time, Ukrainian long-range sanctions reached the Moscow region, and we are clearly telling the Russians: their state must end its war. Ukrainian drone and missile manufacturers continue their work. I am grateful to the Security Service of Ukraine and all the Defense Forces of Ukraine for their precision…”