London – Russian aircraft and missile aircraft bombed cities around Ukraine on Saturday evening until Sunday morning, despite the continuous exchange of prisoners, which is scheduled to be the largest war of 3 years.
Ukraine Air Force said in a leaflet to a telegram that Russia launched a total of 367 “air attack vehicles” – including nine ballistic missiles, Essakander, 56 cruise missiles and four air missiles directed to 298 drones – in targets all over the country.
The Air Force said 45 tourist missiles and 266 drones were shot down or neutralized during the attack.
“Most of the Ukraine regions were affected by the enemy’s attack,” the Air Force wrote, as Strikes said in 22 locations and cruise missiles that were dropped or the drone strike in 15 sites.
Emergency workers extinguish fires in the wreckage of a house destroyed in a Russian missile strike in Markalvka, in the Kiev region of Ukraine, on May 25, 2025.
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“Today, the rescuers were working in more than 30 Ukrainian cities or villages after the massive strike in Russia,” President Folodimir Zellinski wrote on social media.
“These were deliberate strikes on ordinary cities,” Zelinski continued. “Ordinary residential buildings were destroyed and damaged. In Kiev, the review of the university’s history department was struck. There were also tragic strikes on companies. People, including children, were killed.”
The operational leadership of the armed forces in Poland – a NATO nation that borders Ukraine to the West – said in a publication on Sunday morning to X that its combat aircraft had fallen during the Russian attack. “An intense long -term flying activity of the Russian Federation was observed, linked to the strikes that were implemented on the existing things, among other things, in the western region of Ukraine,” the statement said.
The last attack represents the fourth consecutive night, during which Russia fired more than 100 missiles and drones to Ukraine, according to Ukrainian Air Force figures. Although long -term attacks have occurred almost at night in recent months, the recent palaces in Russia have been noticeable on its scale.
Ukraine also continues its drones in Russia, as the Moscow Ministry of Defense has informed 110 Ukrainian drones overnight until Sunday.
These weeds came despite the beginning of the multiple exchange of prisoners on Friday. Zelinski said that about 1,000 soldiers are expected to be replaced by both sides, as the operation continues until Sunday.
The exchange of prisoners, as soon as the completion, will be greater, since Moscow’s invasion began in February 2022. Russia and Ukraine have switched to war prisoners throughout the conflict, despite their failure to agree to a permanent ceasefire.
The United States has assisted peace talks since President Donald Trump’s return to his post in January failed to reach an agreement, as both Kiev and Moscow accused each other of undermining negotiations.
Ukraine requires a 30 -day ceasefire, during which peace talks can be held. Zelinski has repeatedly excluded the lands of waiver from Moscow in any peace deal.
Trump’s threats of new sanctions on Russia – so far not to be achieved despite the Ukrainian and European calls for more American pressure on President Vladimir Putin – have pushed the Kremlin away from the maximum goals of the war, which is mainly equivalent to Ukrainian surrender.
The explosion of a drone shines the sky over Kiev, Ukraine, during a Russian attack on May 25, 2025.
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These demands include the inclusion of four Ukrainian regions partially occupied-in addition to keeping the Crimea semi-Peninsula, which Russia seized in 2014-the removal of militarization in Kiev, a permanent mass of Ukrainian joining NATO and “isolating the country”-which is a mysterious demand.
Ukrainian leaders have indicated that Russia’s collective strikes as evidence that Moscow is not real in its appeal for peace.
“Each of the Russian terrorist strike is a sufficient reason for new sanctions against Russia,” Zellinski said on Sunday. “Russia takes out this war and continues to kill every day. The world may continue on the weekend, but the war continues, regardless of weekends and days of the week.
“Without really strong pressure on the Russian leadership, this brutality cannot be stopped,” he added. “The sanctions will definitely help. The design is now important – the definition of the United States, the European countries, and all who wander around the world seeking peace. The world knows all the weaknesses in the Russian economy.”
“The war can be stopped, but only through the force needed to pressure Russia,” Zellinski said. “Putin should have to think not to firing the missiles, but about ending the war.”
“Instead of the ceasefire, there are murders,” wrote Andrei Yermak – the head of the Zelinski office – on a telegram early Sunday.
“Without pressure, nothing will change, and its allies will build forces for such murder in Western countries,” Yermak continued. “You will fight Moscow as long as it has the ability to produce weapons.”
