LONDON — Not less than 10 Ukrainian drones have been shot down on their strategy to Moscow in a single day into Sunday morning, in keeping with the town’s mayor, with short-term restrictions launched at two of the capital’s airports.
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin stated emergency providers have been dispatched to the impression websites of the downed drones. Russia’s Protection Ministry stated 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 attributable to falling particles. Two individuals have been injured, Milyaev wrote on Telegram. “The state of affairs is beneath management,” he stated.
Andriy Kovalenko, the pinnacle of the Counter-Disinformation Heart working as a part of Ukraine’s Nationwide Safety and Protection Council, stated in a Telegram submit of the Azot facility. “It’s right here that explosives are produced, specifically TNT, which is utilized in artillery shells, plane bombs and missiles.”
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 stated 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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Latest weeks have seen either side intensify their long-range strike operations, at the same time as U.S.-brokered peace talks proceed in a bid to finish Russia’s 3-year-old invasion of its neighbor.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated 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. Not less than three individuals have been killed and 23 injured there on Saturday, in keeping with the pinnacle of the native navy administration. Not less than 4 extra individuals have been killed by strikes elsewhere within the nation, officers stated.
“We’re working to strengthen Ukraine’s air protection,” Zelenskyy stated, in keeping with a readout posted to his workplace’s web site. “We urgently want optimistic indicators from the US — concrete indicators relating to air protection programs. We’re nonetheless ready for a response to our request to buy programs that may assist — concrete indicators, not phrases.”
“I wish to thank the European international locations for the provides,” he added. “We should additionally obtain leads to the joint manufacturing of air protection programs and missiles for them — that is completely important for our complete Europe. Solely time separates us from that end result, and what issues most is shortening that point.”
Zelenskyy and his high officers have framed Russia’s increasing assaults — and rising Ukrainian civilian casualty figures — as proof that Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t real in his obvious willingness to barter a peace deal.
Russia’s newest barrages adopted final weekend’s covert Ukrainian operation wherein brokers used greater than 100 drones hid in giant vehicles to assault strategic bomber bases deep inside Russia. Moscow vowed revenge for the strikes, which Ukrainian officers celebrated as a historic success.
Zelenskyy stated on Saturday that Russia’s latest 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 may be eased,” he stated. “The Russians are getting ready to proceed the struggle 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 attempting to indicate that they’re allegedly proof against any stress,” Zelenskyy added. “However it is rather vital for the world to grasp: simply as stress pressured Russia into the negotiation course of, stress can power Russia to turn into reasonable in negotiations.”
“That is doable exactly due to the stress, and above all, sanctions on Russian oil and those that nonetheless commerce with Russia,” he stated. “Russia should finish this struggle that it began. They have to be pushed into this consequence.”
ABC Information’ Oleksii Pshemyskyi, Anna Sergeeva and Victoria Beaule contributed to this report.
