Massive Ukraine drone onslaught connected Russia
Ukraine's shock drone onslaught connected Russian subject aerial bases, including immoderate heavy wrong Russian territory, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said was secretly planned and coordinated from wrong Russia implicit the past 18 months, seemed connected Monday to person near the Kremlin speechless.
Russia's state-run media cited the country's defence ministry arsenic saying Monday that forces had struck Ukrainian drone production, motorboat and retention sites, and claiming to person changeable down hundreds of Ukrainian-launched drones implicit the past 24 hours, but determination was nary nonstop nationalist effect from Russian authorities to the Ukrainian strike.
While Ukraine has launched drones astatine Russia, including the superior Moscow, for months, arsenic good arsenic staging different covert operations connected Russian soil, the onslaught connected Sunday was notable for its scope and scale. Ukraine claimed it had damaged oregon destroyed 41 Russian bomber craft astatine bases crossed the immense country. Ukrainian officials said the onslaught did not endanger immoderate Russian civilians.
It was besides notable for its timing, a time earlier the 2 sides sat down face-to-face successful Turkey for a 2nd circular of nonstop talks.
The caput of Ukraine's SBU quality bureau said successful a connection connected Tuesday that Russia "thought that it could weaponry Ukraine and endlessly termination Ukrainians with impunity. But that is not the case. We volition respond to Russian panic and destruct the force everyplace — astatine sea, successful the air, and connected land."
A drone lifts disconnected from a instrumentality that Ukrainian authorities said had been loaded onto a motortruck and driven to the perimeter of an airbase wrong Russia, arsenic fume rises successful the background, successful Mal'ta, Irkutsk Region, Russia, successful a inactive representation obtained from societal media video posted connected June 1, 2025.
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SBU main Vasyl Maliuk claimed successful the connection that Ukraine had deed craft astatine 4 Russian bases, inflicting much than $7 cardinal worthy of harm connected Russia's bomber fleet.
The Ministry of Defense successful Moscow said Monday that Russia's aerial defenses had intercepted a full of 316 Ukrainian drones successful 24 hours, which encompasses the clip of Ukraine's attack. The Russian ministry said 205 of those drones were deed extracurricular the "special cognition zone," a word the Kremlin uses to notation to onshore it has seized since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine successful February 2022.
Ukrainian authorities said that, earlier dawn connected Monday, Russia launched 2 ballistic missiles and a bid of drones astatine the northeast metropolis of Kharkiv, conscionable miles from the Russian border, wounding astatine slightest six people, including a child.
Separately, Russia's subject claimed much than 1,400 Ukrainian troops were killed successful bluish Ukraine implicit the preceding day.
Russia and Ukraine clasp 2nd circular of talks successful Turkey
Despite the crisp escalation successful the warfare making immoderate breakthrough look adjacent little apt than it had before, Russian and Ukrainian delegations did beryllium down other each different Monday successful Istanbul for the 2nd circular of negotiations successful a bid for peace.
Ukraine's representatives, led by Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, were expected to contiguous a program demanding a "full and unconditional ceasefire successful the sky, connected onshore and astatine oversea arsenic a indispensable inheritance and prerequisite for bid negotiations," the Reuters quality bureau said, citing a substance of the Ukrainian connection it had viewed. The projected truce would past a minimum of 30 days, successful enactment with calls made by the Trump medication previously.
A handout representation provided by the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs shows members of Ukrainian and Russian delegations attending bid talks presided implicit by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (center), June 2, 2025, astatine the Ciragan Palace successful Istanbul, Turkey.
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Ukraine was besides expected to request the unconditional instrumentality of each Ukrainian children and civilian hostages taken during the war, and that territorial gains made by Russia since February 2014, erstwhile Russia archetypal invaded and illegally annexed the Crimean Peninsula, not beryllium recognized by the planetary community.
In return, Ukraine is unfastened to the lifting of "some sanctions" imposed against Russia by the U.S. and its allies, "but successful stages and lone gradually, with a mechanics for resuming sanctions if necessary.
The Ukrainians besides privation Russian sovereign assets frozen by Western nations to beryllium utilized for reconstruction, oregon to stay frozen until reparations are paid.
Moscow did not, going into the 2nd circular of talks connected Monday, uncover immoderate caller conditions oregon presumption for a hypothetical ceasefire.
President Vladimir Putin's authorities has insisted for months that the lone mode to extremity the warfare is to code what it vaguely calls the conflict's "root causes." Russia insists the war, which Putin calls lone a "special subject operation," was caused by NATO's ambitions for further eastward expansion, and by Moscow's tendency to support Russian-speaking Ukrainians successful the eastbound portion of the neighboring nation.
Putin and his elder aides routinely disregard pro-Europe, pro-NATO Zelenskyy arsenic an illegitimate person of Ukraine. The Russian president has refused to judge his Ukrainian counterpart's situation to clasp nonstop idiosyncratic talks, face-to-face.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Monday arsenic the talks got underway that discussions implicit specified a Putin-Zelenskyy gathering "will beryllium considered."
But determination was nary confirmation from either Ukraine oregon Russia that specified a high-level dialog was imminent. Instead, reports from Turkey suggested the 2nd circular of talks had concluded successful conscionable implicit an hour. Zelenskyy, who did not be the negotiations, told reporters during a sojourn Monday to Lithuania, however, that a caller captive swap betwixt the warring sides was being organized.
He did not accidental however acold the readying for a swap had gone, but a important exchange precocious past month of astir 1,000 captured civilians and prisoners of warfare was the lone tangible effect of the archetypal circular of talks betwixt Russia and Ukraine.
President Trump has voiced vexation with some Zelenskyy and Putin for failing to hold to a truce. During past year's predetermination campaign, Mr. Trump vowed repeatedly to broker an extremity of the warfare wrong hours of taking office. The U.S. president precocious issued uncommon crisp disapproval of Putin, calling him "absolutely crazy" for continuing to hammer Ukrainian cities with missiles arsenic the U.S. and its partners propulsion for a bid agreement.
Mr. Trump wondered successful a societal media station during the past captive swap whether it, "could pb to thing big?"
Russian officials were quoted by the country's state-run media arsenic saying the 2 sides agreed connected Monday to clasp a 3rd circular of talks, but nary day was set. The officials acknowledged that aboriginal captive swaps had been a cardinal constituent of discussion, but Ukrainian officials said Russia had rejected the telephone for a broader 30-day ceasefire.
There was nary contiguous absorption from the White House to the 2nd circular of negotiations successful Turkey connected Monday, but the Trump medication did marque it wide that Ukraine had fixed nary beforehand informing of the Sunday drone onslaught up of those talks.
Ramy Inocencio is simply a CBS News overseas analogous based successful London, covering Europe and the Middle East. He joined the Network successful 2019 arsenic CBS News' Asia correspondent, based successful Beijing and reporting crossed the Asia-Pacific, bringing 2 decades of acquisition moving and traveling betwixt Asia and the United States.
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