Ukraine bombards Russia with the greatest war of drone war, says Moscow

London – The Russian Ministry of Defense said its forces knocked down 337 Ukrainian drones during the night, in what seemed to be kyiv’s largest cross -border air attack against Russia since Moscow launched its large -scale invasion in 2022.

The Ministry informed that it demolished UAV in more than 10 Russian regions. Moscow’s aerial defenses were shooting all night while facing multiple waves of attack drones, according to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. The Ministry of Defense said it demolished 91 drones about the capital.

The attack on Moscow was “massive,” Sobyanin wrote on Telegram. Governor Andrei Vorobyov said that at least two people died and eight injured in the capital.

Vorobyov, several residential buildings of great height, were damaged by drones or debris that fall, said Vorobyov.

The Russian Federal Air Agency said the flights were suspended in the four Moscow airports, with flights at the airports of the Yaroslavl and Nizhny Novgorod regions east of Moscow they were also based.

The spokeswoman of the Foreign Ministry of Russia, Maria Zakharova, denounced the flood as “a terrorist attack” in a statement published on Telegram.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the details of the attack were “naturally” informed President Vladimir Putin and suggested that Ukraine had attacked civil facilities, in the comments informed by the State News Agency TASS.

When asked if the Ukrainian strikes intended to interrupt the nuclentive conversations of Alto El Fuego, Peskov replied: “There are no negotiations. Until now, the Americans, in their own words, are trying to understand how list is Ukraine for peace conversations. There are still no negotiations, so there is still nothing to interrupt.”

“But the fact that it is possible to spoil the emerging trend, yes,” Peskov added.

The Ukrainian army did not comment on the strikes immediately.

Drones flood occurred when US and Ukrainian negotiators prepared to open high -fire talks in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday after weeks of tensions and public disagreements.

The administration of President Donald Trump is pressing kyiv to make concessions in search of a peace agreement to end the invasion of the three -year country in Russia. The White House also wants Ukraine to sign a controversial mineral exchange agreement that Trump has framed as a way of recovering tens of billions of American aid sent to Ukraine since 2022.

Kyiv has repeatedly said that he will not accept any agreement that does not include concrete security guarantees to avoid repeated Russian aggression in the future.

Trump has framed Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main impediment of peace, falsely blaming Ukraine for beginning the war, seeking to undermine Zelenskyy’s legitimacy and publicly align with the false narratives of Moscow around the conflict. The United States has tried to take Ukraine to the negotiating table by putting a freezing of military aid and the exchange of intelligence.

“The most important thing we have to leave here is a strong feeling that Ukraine is prepared to do difficult things,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday, who will participate in Tuesday’s conversations.

Rubio said that the Russians “will also have to do difficult things,” although Trump and his senior officials have not said what concessions he can be asked to do to Moscow. American and Russian negotiators met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, last month.

Zelenskyy traveled to Saudi Arabia on Monday to meet with the heir prince and the de facto ruler Mohammed Bin Salman. Zelenskyy will not participate in Tuesday’s conversations with the US delegation.

Zelenskyy said he had a “detailed discussion” with Salman in “the steps and conditions necessary to end war and ensure reliable and lasting peace”, in a publication on social networks after the two leaders gathered.

“I emphasized the issue of the release of prisoners and the return of our children, which could become a key step to generate confidence in diplomatic efforts. An important part of the discussion was dedicated to the formats of security guarantees,” said Zelenskyy.

Zelenskyy said that a Ukrainian delegation “will remain” in the country to “work with the American team” on Tuesday. Zelenskyy said he expects “practical results,” from the US Uu Ukraine meeting.

“The position of Ukraine in these conversations will be totally constructive,” he added.

A source close to Zelenskyy confirmed to ABC News that Ukraine will propose a partial fire in their conversations with the US.

The time frame for the truce is still clear.

“We want to propose the partial fire that can be monitored and then see how the Russians respond to determine the next steps,” added the source.

Rubio told journalists on Monday that he saw some promise in the partial proposal of Alto El Fuego de Ukrania.

“I don’t say that is enough, but it is the type of concession you would need to see to finish this conflict,” he said.

Rubio said that finishing the mineral agreement with Ukraine was “an important issue, but it is not the main theme on the agenda.”

“It is certainly an agreement that the president wants to see, but it does not necessarily have to happen tomorrow,” he said. “There are still more details to exercise.”

Meanwhile, nocturnal exchanges of drones and missiles seem to continue.

The Ukraine Air Force said their forces tracked an Iskander ballistic missile and 126 drones fired to the country during the night. The missile and the 79 drones were shot down, said the Air Force, with another 35 UAV lost in flight without effect.

Donetsk, Odessa, Kharkiv, Sumy and Kyiv were affected, according to the statement.

Nataliia Popova, Ellie Kaufman and Oleskiy Pshemyskiy contributed to this report.