Hours after a high-stakes meeting in Alaska, which the world thought could be a point of inflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine, Moscow has launched 85 attack drones and a ballistic missile at Ukraine overnight, Kyiv said on Saturday, just hours after Russian leader Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump concluded their talks.
The highly anticipated meeting in the remote US state ended with no breakthrough in halting Russia’s ongoing three-year-old onslaught against Ukraine. Ukraine’s Air Force said Moscow had “attacked them with an Iskander-M ballistic missile” as the war drags on into its fourth year.
The Air Force further reported that 85 Shahed-type drones targeted the Kyiv area as well as frontline regions.
In its daily update, the Air Force said the attack took place on the night of August 16 and the evening of August 15, coinciding with the Putin–Trump meeting. According to an NDTV report, Kyiv’s air defences shot down 61 drones.
Meanwhile, Moscow claimed advances in the east of Ukraine, pressing its ground offensive even during the talks. Reports from Moscow said Russian forces had captured two more villages in eastern Ukraine just hours after Putin’s meeting with Trump in Alaska.
Russia also claimed to have taken the village of Vorone in the neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk region. For nearly three and a half years, Moscow has steadily seized Ukrainian territory, occupying large parts of the east and south. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
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