Ukraine launched a six-hour drone bombardment throughout ten Russian areas together with Moscow, simply hours earlier than Donald Trump introduced a historic ceasefire.
Russian Federal Guard Service (FSO) officers patrol central Moscow in entrance of the Kremlin forward of the Victory Day navy parade, to be held at Purple Sq. on Could 9. (Picture: ALEXANDER NEMENOV, AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Russia confronted an unrelenting six-hour barrage of Ukrainian drones within the hours earlier than the landmark Victory Day ceasefire was declared by Donald Trump.
The Russian Defence Ministry confirmed that 71 Ukranian drones have been intercepted and destroyed throughout a frantic interval between 2.00PM and eight.00PM Moscow time on Friday, Could 8.
Lower than two hours later President Trump took to Reality Social to announce a three-day ceasefire deal and prisoner change between the 2 warring nations.
Drones have been intercepted above Moscow as preparations for the large-scale Victory Day celebrations have been underway. Putin had enforced a sweeping safety lockdown within the capital, with snipers and machine gunners positioned on the Kremlin’s towers overlooking Purple Sq. fearing the Could 9 occasion can be a goal for Ukraine.
Russian Nationwide Guard officers stroll throughout Purple Sq. embellished for the Victory Day navy parade in Moscow (Picture: Anadolu, Anadolu by way of Getty Pictures)
The Russian Navy confirmed the drone bombardment in an announcement and stated: “Air protection alert programs intercepted and destroyed 71 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial autos (UAVs) over the Kaluga, Tula, Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Ryazan, Rostov, Voronezh, and Oryol areas, the Moscow area, and the Krasnodar and Stavropol territories, in addition to over the Black Sea.”
President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the truce on X, and stated the 1,000 for 1,000 prisoner change was extra necessary than concentrating on Moscow.
He stated: “Purple Sq. is much less necessary to us than the lives of Ukrainian prisoners who may be introduced house.
“That’s the reason as we speak, throughout the framework of the negotiating course of mediated by the American aspect, we obtained Russia’s settlement to conduct a prisoner change within the format of 1,000 for 1,000.”
Safety across the Could 9 Victory Day celebrations had been stepped up after a Ukrainian drone struck an elite high-rise constructing close to the Kremlin this week.
It has been reported that Putin’s paranoia had intensified in latest days, with the Russian chief even going so far as to ban officers from carrying wristwatches in assembly, fearing a “007-style” assault.
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