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Ukraine launches biggest drone attack on Moscow

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Ukraine launches biggest drone attack on Moscow

▲ Almost a hundred devices were destroyed by the Russian Defense, although some hit residential areas. The first image is in Odessa, Ukraine, while the second is in Sofyno, Russia.Photo Afp

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La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, November 11, 2024, p. 28

kyiv. A massive drone attack rocked Moscow and its suburbs early yesterday, injuring several people and forcing the temporary closure of traffic at some of the busiest Russian airports, authorities reported.

Today in the evening and in the morning the armed forces of Ukraine launched a massive attack on civilian infrastructure on the territory of the Russian Federation. In total there were 84 long-range unmanned aerial vehiclesreported the Ministry of Defense.

All air targets were shot down or suppressed by electronic warfarehe added in a statement, according to the Interfax news agency. The attack, he estimates, was mainly directed against civil infrastructure in the city of Ramenskoye, 46 kilometers southeast of Moscow, and which was already the target of attacks the day before yesterday.

The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency detailed that the Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Zhukovsky airfields diverted at least 36 flights, which later resumed operations.

Meanwhile, Ukraine was the target of a new record offensive with 145 Russian drones, Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky denounced on his X account, while its air forces indicated that 62 of the 145 drones were neutralized in 13 regions of the country. So far, Ukrainian authorities have not reported victims or damages nor have they claimed responsibility for the attacks against Moscow.

The Ukrainian military forces added that another 67 lost course to crash in unpopulated areas and that another 10 drones left their airspace in the direction of Moldova, Belarus and Russia.

For his part, the US president, Joe Biden, will inform his country’s Congress and the incoming administration of Donald Trump that Washington should not move away from Ukraine, as this could instigate more instability in Europe, reported the National Security Advisor of the White House, Jake Sullivan.

You will have the opportunity to explain to President-elect Trump how you see things, where they stand, and to talk to him about how you plan to address these issues when he takes office.

In an interview on the program Face the Nation of CBS News, Sullivan detailed that Biden’s main message will be his commitment to guarantee a peaceful transfer of power and that he will also address the situation in Asia and the Middle East with the magnate.

After his victory, the magnate had a telephone conversation last Thursday with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and asked him not to intensify the offensive in Ukraine, according to the newspaper Washington Postwhich quotes sources who were present during the call.

According to the newspaper, Trump and Putin also talked about peace in Europe and agreed to be in communication about the solution to the war in Ukraine. kyiv authorities were informed about the conversation and did not raise any objection.

However, the spokesperson for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Georgy Tiji, in a comment to the Reuters news agency, denied the journalistic report that kyiv was informed about the call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.