LONDON — No less than 10 Ukrainian drones have been shot down on their strategy to Moscow in a single day into Sunday morning, in response to town’s mayor, with short-term restrictions launched at two of the capital’s airports.
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin mentioned emergency providers have been dispatched to the influence websites of the downed drones. Russia’s Protection Ministry mentioned the uncrewed plane attacking Moscow have been amongst 67 Ukrainian drones shot down in a single day.
To the south of the capital area, Tula area governor Dmitry Milyaev reported a drone assault on the Azot chemical plant in Novomoskovsk and a fireplace there brought on by falling particles. Two individuals have been injured, Milyaev wrote on Telegram. “The scenario is underneath management,” he mentioned.
Russian forces continued their very own long-range strikes into Ukraine in a single day, with Ukraine’s air power reporting 49 drones and three missiles fired into the nation. The air power mentioned on Telegram that it shot down or in any other case neutralized 40 drones.
An artist paints a panorama of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on June 5, 2025.
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Current weeks have seen each side intensify their long-range strike operations, whilst U.S.-brokered peace talks proceed in a bid to finish Russia’s 3-year-old invasion of its neighbor.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned on Saturday night that his nation must “urgently” strengthen its air protection capabilities in response to Russia’s intensifying missile and drone assaults on cities nationwide.
The northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv — which sits round 19 miles from the Russian border — was amongst these attacked this weekend. No less than three individuals have been killed and 23 injured there on Saturday, in response to the top of the native army administration. No less than 4 extra individuals have been killed by strikes elsewhere within the nation, officers mentioned.
“We’re working to strengthen Ukraine’s air protection,” Zelenskyy mentioned, in response to a readout posted to his workplace’s web site. “We urgently want optimistic alerts from america — concrete alerts concerning air protection programs. We’re nonetheless ready for a response to our request to buy programs that may assist — concrete alerts, not phrases.”
“I wish to thank the European international locations for the provides,” he added. “We should additionally obtain ends in the joint manufacturing of air protection programs and missiles for them — that is completely important for our entire Europe. Solely time separates us from that end result, and what issues most is shortening that point.”
Zelenskyy and his prime officers have framed Russia’s increasing assaults — and rising Ukrainian civilian casualty figures — as proof that Russian President Vladimir Putin shouldn’t be real in his obvious willingness to barter a peace deal.
Russia’s newest barrages adopted final weekend’s covert Ukrainian operation through which brokers used greater than 100 drones hid in massive vans to assault strategic bomber bases deep inside Russia. Moscow vowed revenge for the strikes, which Ukrainian officers celebrated as a historic success.
Zelenskyy mentioned on Saturday that Russia’s current strikes on Ukrainian cities can’t be excused as “retaliation,” and once more urged Western companions to do extra to power Putin to ease maximalist peace calls for that equate to Ukrainian capitulation.
“No type of stress on Russia could be eased,” he mentioned. “The Russians are getting ready to proceed the conflict and are ignoring all peace proposals. They have to be held accountable for this.”
Hearth and smoke rise from the location of a Russian missile strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on June 7, 2025.
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“We’re conscious that the Russians at the moment are making an attempt to point out that they’re allegedly resistant to any stress,” Zelenskyy added. “However it is vitally vital for the world to know: simply as stress pressured Russia into the negotiation course of, stress can power Russia to change into sensible in negotiations.”
“That is attainable exactly due to the stress, and above all, sanctions on Russian oil and people who nonetheless commerce with Russia,” he mentioned. “Russia should finish this conflict that it began. They have to be pushed into this final result.”
