Ukraine Launches Massive Drone Attack On Russia As U.S. Officials Push Peace Talks | rssama.com

Russian aerial defenses changeable down 337 Ukrainian drones complete 10 Russian regions overnight, subject officials said Tuesday, successful what appeared to beryllium nan biggest Ukrainian drone onslaught connected Russia in nan three-year war.

The onslaught came hours earlier nan commencement of cardinal Ukraine-U.S. talks successful Saudi Arabia connected really to extremity Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II. Two group were killed and 18 were injured, including 3 children, officials said.

A elder Ukrainian delegation, meanwhile, was to meet pinch America’s apical diplomat successful Saudi Arabia astir ending nan three-year warfare pinch Russia. There was nary contiguous remark from Ukrainian aliases U.S. officials connected nan attack.

The talks successful Saudi Arabia bespeak a caller negotiated push aft an unprecedented statement erupted during President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Feb. 28 sojourn to nan White House. Ukrainian officials told The Associated Press connected Monday that they will propose a ceasefire covering nan Black Sea, which would bring safer shipping, arsenic good long-range rocket strikes that have deed civilians successful Ukraine, and nan merchandise of prisoners.

The Kremlin has not publically offered immoderate concessions. Russia has said it’s fresh to cease hostilities connected information that Ukraine drops its bid to subordinate NATO and recognizes regions that Moscow occupies arsenic Russian.

Russian forces person held nan battlefield momentum for much than a twelvemonth and are pushing astatine selected points on nan 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) beforehand line, particularly successful nan eastern Donetsk region.

Most of nan Ukrainian drones fired astatine Russia overnight — 126 of them — were changeable down complete nan Kursk region crossed nan separator from Ukraine, parts of which Kyiv’s forces control, and 91 were changeable down complete nan Moscow region, according to a connection by Russia’s Defense Ministry.

A interrogator looks astatine nan harm of an flat building wherever a downed Ukrainian drone fell successful Sapronovo colony extracurricular Moscow, Russia, connected March 11, 2025.

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Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said complete 70 drones targeted nan Russian superior and were changeable down arsenic they were flying toward it — nan biggest azygous onslaught connected Moscow truthful acold successful nan war.

Other attacked regions listed successful nan connection included Belgorod, Bryansk and Voronezh connected nan separator pinch Ukraine and those deeper wrong Russia, specified arsenic Kaluga, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Oryol and Ryazan.

The politician of nan Moscow region surrounding nan capital, Andrei Vorobyov, said nan onslaught damaged respective residential buildings and a number of cars.

Another personification was wounded connected a road successful nan Lipetsk region, Gov. Igor Artamonov said.

A constabulary serviceman patrols an area adjacent an flat building, top, wherever a downed Ukrainian drone fell successful Sapronovo colony extracurricular Moscow, Russia, connected March 11, 2025.

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Sobyanin said nan tile of a building successful Moscow besides sustained damage, which he described arsenic “insignificant.” Footage of nan building, published by RIA Novosti, showed a charred spot connected nan destruction of a multi-story residential building adjacent nan roof, pinch bits of nan building’s lining stripped off.

Flights were temporarily restricted successful and retired of six airports, including Domodedovo, Vnukovo, Sheremetyevo and Zhukovsky conscionable extracurricular Moscow, and airports successful nan Yaroslavl and Nizhny Novgorod regions.

Train postulation done nan Domodedovo railway position successful nan Moscow region has besides been concisely halted, section officials reported.

Local authorities besides reported downing drones successful nan Tula and Vladimir regions adjacent to nan Moscow region. It wasn’t instantly clear why those regions weren’t mentioned successful nan Defense Ministry’s statement.

In nan Saudi metropolis of Jeddah, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his delegation, including nationalist information advisor Mike Waltz, were preparing to meet Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s team.

Two elder Ukrainian officials said Kyiv is fresh to motion an statement pinch nan United States connected entree to Ukraine’s uncommon world minerals — a woody that U.S. President Donald Trump is keen to secure.

On his level to Jeddah, Rubio said nan U.S. delegation would not beryllium proposing immoderate circumstantial measures to unafraid an extremity to nan three-year conflict but alternatively wanted to perceive from Ukraine astir what they would beryllium consenting to consider.

“I’m not going to group immoderate conditions connected what they person to aliases request to do,” Rubio told reporters accompanying him. “I deliberation we want to perceive to spot really acold they’re consenting to spell and past comparison that to what nan Russians want and spot really acold isolated we genuinely are.”

Rubio said nan uncommon earths and captious minerals woody could beryllium signed during nan gathering but stressed it was not a precondition for nan United States to move up pinch discussions pinch either Ukraine aliases nan Russians.

He said it may, successful fact, make much consciousness to return immoderate clip to discuss nan precise specifications of nan agreement, which is now a wide memorandum of knowing that leaves retired galore specifics.

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Associated Press writers Matt Lee successful Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Hanna Arhirova successful Kyiv, Ukraine, contributed to this report.

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