(Bloomberg) – Russia released a record air strike in Ukraine because US President Donald Trump expressed disappointment in his last phone call with Vladimir Putin, who was to end the war.
Ukrainian air defense said Russia fired 550 drones and missiles, mostly focused on Kiev, at night attacks that lasted more than 11 hours. He said that 478 air targets were captured.
Explosions have been heard throughout the capital because the impacts registered in five city districts and residential houses were damaged, the head of Kyiv said the military administration Tymur Tkachenko, on the telegram. At least one person was killed and 26 was injured, he said.
The attack came when Trump told reporters that he was “very disappointed” during Thursday’s conversation with Putin, in which the Russian President said he would “return” from his war goals, according to the Kremlin reading.
“I don’t think he wants to stop and that’s too bad,” Trump said, adding that he was planning to talk to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenka on Friday. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later said that the Kremlin is paying close attention to the US leader, Interfax reported.
Zelenskiy said that on Friday Russian air strikes were “demonstrably significant and cynical wound”, which began “almost simultaneously with the discussion in the media of a telephone interview between President Trump and Putin”.
He called on Allies of Ukraine to maintain air defense supplies and intensify sanctions against Russia. The German government said it was in “intensive interviews” to secure the Patriot Air-Defense systems for Kiev.
“Without a truly extensive pressure, Russia will not change its stupid destructive behavior,” Zelenka said on a telegram.
The sixth publicly recognized challenge between Trump and Putin since the US President returned to the White House in January, promised that the rapid end of the war had occurred, because Moscow has intensified air attacks in Ukraine in recent weeks.
Meanwhile, Russian troops have only achieved incremental profits on the battlefield and for more and more increasingly one -like human costs. It is estimated that the number of victims of Moscow since the beginning of the invasion, including killed and injured soldiers, has climbed over 1 million last month.
Russia also intensifies the use of chemical weapons in its war against Ukraine, the Dutch secret service said on Friday. Moscow used chloropicrine, chemicals that can be fatal in high concentrations and violates the Convention on Chemical Weapons. Peskov did not answer immediately to the request for comment.
Friday’s strikes damaged the Polish consulate in Kiev. Warsaw Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in post X. “Restore the ammunition supply anti -aircraft to Ukraine and store strict new sanctions on the aggressor,” he said.
The Ukrainian Ministry of the Environment urged Kiev inhabitants to stay at home due to an increased level of pollution from the smoke caused by an attack.
After Russia released another massive attack on drones and rockets on Sunday, the Pentagon announced this week that the transfer of artillery bikes and air defense to Ukraine and quotes a review of US supplies because it weighs the need to save weapons to protect against other security threats.
Trump just said last week that after a “good” meeting with Zelenskiya at a secondary meeting at NATO peak in The Hague, more Patriot Air-Defense missiles. Without much support for Washivton, Kyiv is becoming increasingly vulnerable, as the current US financing of military assistance, which has been approved under former President Joe Biden, must occur in the summer.
Calls signal a renewed attempt by Trump to secure the ceasefire in the Russian War in Ukraine, currently in the fourth year. Zeletskiy repeated his support for the design of an American leader who has so far refused to accept his maximistic requirements.
The Kremlin also indicated that there was little progress during almost an hour’s discussion between Putin and Trump.
“Donald Trump again raised the question of early ending hostility,” the Kremlin Yuri Ushakov, foreign policy of the Kremlin, told reporters. “Our president said Russia would achieve its goals.”
He described the conversation as “Frank, business and specific”, adding that the leaders agreed to continue the discussions soon. Putin and Trump talked about Iran and the situation in the Middle East “considerably in detail”, Ushakov said.
There was no discussion about the meeting between the two leaders and did not touch the US decision to stop supplies of weapons to Ukraine, Ushakov added.
Trump led the campaign to quickly end the war in Ukraine and quoted his relationship with Putin, but also threatened to leave if both parties could not agree to the conditions. While in Ukraine he had pressed weapons supplies, Russia did not put any additional sanctions, despite the dismissal of Zelenky and European leaders to raise pressure on Putin.
“We had a call, it was quite a long call,” Trump told reporters on Thursday evening. “We also talked about the war with Ukraine and I’m not happy about it.”
“No, I didn’t make any progress,” he said.
-S using Stephanie Lai, Ben Holland, Maxim Edwards, Indy Scholtens and Mark Sweetman.
(Update with the number of victims, the Kremlin comments on the call of Trump-Tempin, German efforts to ensure air defense before the third paragraph.)
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