Russian army launches massive attack with dozens of Iranian drones against the Ukrainian cities of kyiv and Odessa

Yesterday morning, Russia launched a new massive kamikaze drone attack Shahed and other models which had among their main objectives the cities of Kyiv And Odessaas reported this Thursday by local authorities.

In the capital and its surroundings, the Ukrainian army demolished more than thirty drones. Fragments of some of these drones fell in residential areas and caused damage in terms of housing and commercial infrastructure, according to the Kyiv Region Military Administration.

In Odessawhich is located in the south of the country and is the main seaport of Ukraine, a multi-storey building and an unknown number of cars were hit during the attack, during which A 30-year-old man was injured. according to the regional military administration.

THE Russian drones also arrived in the Zhytomyr region, in central Ukraine, where they affected electrical infrastructure. Three districts in the region were temporarily without power due to the impact, according to authorities.

At the same time, a Russian aerial bomb killed one person in the Ukrainian region of Sumibordering Russia.

Russia attacks Ukrainian territory almost every night with dozens of Shahed kamikaze drones, a relatively cheap technology received from Iran capable of reaching distances of more than a thousand kilometers.

Ukrainian defenses intercept the vast majority of these drones, which however continue to cause victims and material damage by directly impacting infrastructure or homes or by fragments of downed machines falling on them.

Russia calls for end of war

After the victory in the USA of Donald TrumpEuropean leaders meeting this Thursday in Budapest urged the president-elect to maintain his support for Ukraine.

For his part, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, Sergei Shoigudeclared this Thursday that The West should accept that Russia is winning the war in Ukraine and negotiate its end.

Moscow’s forces are advancing at their fastest pace since the opening weeks of the two-and-a-half-year-old war.

Trump promised during the campaign that could bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hoursbut gave few details on how it would attempt to do so.

Shoigu, an ally of President Vladimir Putin who served as defense minister from 2012 until Putin fired him in May, said The West attempted to use Ukraine to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.but he had failed.

Last June 14 Putin set his conditions for ending the war: Ukraine should abandon its NATO membership ambitions and withdraw its troops from the four regions claimed by Moscow.

Russia controls Crimeawhich unilaterally took and annexed Ukraine in 2014, approximately 80% of the territory Donbass-a coal and steel production area which includes the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk– and more than 70% of the regions of Zaporozhye And Kherson.

Ukrainewhich enjoys the support of the United States and European powers, rejected Putin’s conditions, but Trump stressed that has different priorities than Joe Biden, who insisted that Ukraine must decide when and how to negotiate.

kyiv’s official position is that it will not rest until all Russian soldiers are expelled from its territory.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump’s transition team had proposed that Kyiv could promise not to join NATO for 20 yearsIn exchange, Washington would agree to heavily arm it to deter a Russian attack.

The Kremlin reacted cautiously on Wednesday after Trump’s victory in the presidential election, saying that The United States remained a hostile state and that only time would tell if his rhetoric about ending the war would translate into reality.