Al-Riyadh newspaper A drone war between Moscow and Kiev…and Russian forces advancing into eastern Ukraine

A weather warning has been lifted across Ukraine (Reuters)

An air alert was issued for almost all of Ukraine on Monday morning after a large number of Russian bombers took off, following a series of overnight attacks that killed at least six people in the south of the country.

The Ukrainian Air Force warned via telegram, “Attention! Missile danger over Ukraine! MiG-31K aircraft are flying,” also indicating that Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers were headed for the country. The Tupolev Tu-95 is a long-range bomber developed during the Soviet Union that can carry cruise missiles. MiG-31 intercept and attack aircraft are often used alongside strategic bombers. At least six people were killed and 20 wounded in Russian attacks overnight in southern Ukraine’s Mykolaiv and Zaporizhia, according to local authorities.

Vitaly Kim, governor of the Mykolaiv region, said the fire broke out in residential buildings in the city. On Russia’s side, the Defense Ministry announced the interception of four Ukrainian drones in the Voronezh region, which borders Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced that 43 drones were downed in the Moscow region, in its largest ever attack. Since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war in February 2022, the capital has been targeted. It shot down another 36 drones in two areas bordering Moscow and three drones were downed in the border region of Ukraine, Andrei Vorobyov, said one woman, a 52-year-old woman, suffered knife burns to her face, neck and hands, and two houses were burned.

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For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Russia launched an attack with a “record” number of 145 drones on Saturday night, while the Air Force reported intercepting 62 of these drones.

As for the situation on the front, Ukrainian forces are suffering from exhaustion in the face of the outnumbered and outgunned Russian army and are retreating to several sectors of eastern Ukraine, while the Russian army’s advance accelerates. According to Kiev and Western countries, thousands of North Korean troops have been deployed in Russia’s Kursk region, where the Ukrainian army has controlled hundreds of square kilometers since an Aug. 6 ambush in the region, and Kiev confirmed that they. Participating in war. The West still prohibits Kiev from using strikes deep into Russian territory or shooting down Russian planes targeting Ukrainian cities that US President-elect Donald Trump has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin and urged him not to do. Escalating the war in Ukraine. However, the Kremlin on Monday denied that such a call had taken place and its spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the newspaper report had “no relation to reality.” A spokesman for Trump’s team, which returned to the White House on January 20, said in a statement that it “does not comment on personal communications between President Trump and other leaders.”

Trump has repeatedly insisted that he is capable of ending the war in Ukraine “in one day,” without explaining how he intends to do it.