London – Russian drones and missiles again bombarded cities in Ukraine on Saturday night until Sunday morning despite an exchange of ongoing prisoners that will be the largest of the 3 -year war.
The Ukraine Air Force told Telegram that Russia launched a total of 367 “air attack vehicles”, including nine Iskander Balistic missiles, 56 cruise missiles, four guided air missiles and 298 attack drones, in the objectives of the entire country.
The Air Force said that 45 cruise missiles and 266 drones were demolished or neutralized during the attack.
“Most of the Ukraine regions were affected by the enemy attack,” the Air Force wrote, with strikes reported in 22 locations and cruise missiles or strike drones reported in 15 locations.
Emergency workers extinguish fires in the rubble of a house that was destroyed in a russian rocket strike in Markhalivka, in the kyiv region of Ukraine, on May 25, 2025.
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“Unfortunately, tonight, due to the barbarian attack of the Russians, there are dead and injured, including children,” said the Air Force.
The operational command of the Armed Forces in Poland, a NATO nation that limits Ukraine towards the West, said in a Sunday morning to X that their combat planes were scrambled during the Russian attack. “An intensive activity of the long -range aviation of the Russian Federation, associated with attacks carried out in objects located, among others, in the western territory of Ukraine,” said the statement.
The last attack marks the fourth consecutive night during which Russia launched more than 100 missiles and drones to Ukraine, according to figures of the Ukraine Air Force. Although long -range attacks have occurred almost every night in recent months, recent Russian bombings have been notable for their scale.
Ukraine also continues with his own attacks by Drones to Russia, and the Ministry of Defense in Moscow informs that the fall of 110 Ukrainian drones during the night until Sunday.
The bombings arrived despite the beginning of a process of exchanging prisoners of several days on Friday. It is expected that some 1,000 troops from both sides will be exchanged, and the process will continue until Sunday, said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The exchange of prisoners, once completed, will be the largest since Moscow’s invasion began in February 2022. Russia and Ukraine have changed to prisoners of war throughout the conflict, despite not agreeing a high durable fire.
The peace conversations negotiated in the United States since the return of President Donald Trump in January in January has also not reached an agreement, with kyiv and Moscow accusing each other of undermining negotiations.
Ukraine demands a high fire of 30 days, during which peace conversations may take place. Zelenskyy has repeatedly ruled out the territory by giving Moscow in any peace agreement.
Trump’s threats to new sanctions to Russia, are not yet made despite the Ukrainian and European appeals for greater American pressure on President Vladimir Putin, do not seem to have moved away the Kremlin from their maximalist war objectives, which essentially equals the Ukrainian capitulation.
An explosion of a drone illuminates the sky on kyiv, Ukraine, during a Russian attack on May 25, 2025.
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These demands include the annexation of four partially occupied Ukrainian regions, plus the retention of Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014, the demilitarization of kyiv, a permanent block in Ukrainian adhesion to NATO and the “desnazification” of the country, a nebula demand based on the false representation of Russia of the Ukrainian government as an extreme dictature.
Ukrainian leaders have cited the continuous mass attacks in Russia as evidence that Moscow is not genuine in their peace appeals.
“The Russian army killed children and civilians with missiles and drones tonight,” wrote Andriy Yermak, head of the Zelenskyy office, on Telegram on early Sunday. “Instead of a high fire, there are murders.”
“Without pressure on Moscow, we have the death of our people,” he added. “The current pressure is insufficient, Russia is slowing down all the processes related to the end of the war to kill. We have been ready to cease fire, but Russia is doing everything possible to continue destroying people, because Putin likes Putin.”
“Without pressure, nothing will change and Russia and its allies will only increase forces for such murders in western countries,” Yermak continued. “Moscow will fight whenever you have the ability to produce weapons.”
