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Putin’s revenge: Six dead, including a baby, as Russian drones pound Ukraine hours after Vladimir told Trump he would make Zelensky pay for Operation Spiderweb humiliation

Russia killed three generations of a family – including a one-year-old baby – as Vladimir Putin unleashed his vengeance for Ukrainian strikes that destroyed his strategic bomber aircraft. 

The attack came just hours after Donald Trump spoke with Putin. The US President said the Russian leader ‘very strongly’ told him that Russia will retaliate for Ukraine’s weekend drone attacks on four air bases.

The US assesses the attack hit as many as 20 Russian warplanes, destroying around 10 of them, according to two officials – a figure that is about half the number estimated by Zelensky but was still humiliating to Moscow.

Putin kept to his word that Russia would hit back, launching devastating strikes on civilians in Chernihiv and Kharkiv, as Ukraine’s President Zelensky warned that the despot ‘feels impunity’ and ‘is showing the middle finger to the entire world’.

At least six people were killed and six more wounded in hospital after last night’s onslaught by Russia, and have been hospitalized, regional governor Viacheslav Chaus said Thursday. 

According to him, six Shahed-type drones struck residential areas of Pryluky early Thursday morning, causing severe damage to residential buildings.

Hours later, seventeen people were wounded in a Russian drone strike on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv early Thursday, including children, a pregnant woman, and a 93-year-old woman, regional head Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram.

At around 1.05 am, Shahed-type drones struck two apartment buildings in the city’s Slobidskyi district, causing fires and destroying several private vehicles.

‘By launching attacks while people sleep in their homes, the enemy once again confirms its tactic of insidious terror,’ Syniehubov wrote on Telegram.

A firefighter stands by a fire and points to a hole following a drone strike in Kharkiv on June 5

According to authorities, six Shahed-type drones struck residential areas of Pryluky early Thursday morning, causing severe damage to residential buildings

According to authorities, six Shahed-type drones struck residential areas of Pryluky early Thursday morning, causing severe damage to residential buildings

Firefighters put out the fire following Russia's overnight drone attack in the Pryluky, Chernihiv region

Firefighters put out the fire following Russia’s overnight drone attack in the Pryluky, Chernihiv region

A satellite image shows a destroyed TU 22 aircraft in the aftermath of a drone strike at the Belaya air base, Irkutsk region, Russia

A satellite image shows a destroyed TU 22 aircraft in the aftermath of a drone strike at the Belaya air base, Irkutsk region, Russia

The attack came just hours after Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin

The attack came just hours after Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Russian aircraft were damaged but not destroyed in the June 1 attack by Ukraine, and they will be restored, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in an interview with the state news agency TASS. 

‘The equipment in question, as was also stated by representatives of the Ministry of Defence, was not destroyed but damaged. It will be restored,’ Ryabkov said.

But US officials described the attack as highly significant, with one of them cautioning that it could drive Moscow to a far more severe negotiating position in the US-brokered talks to end more than three years of war.

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