Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv says it killed 12 FSB officers in drone swarm attack on Russian command centre
Ukraine’s frontline position is now “the strongest” it has been in a year, the country’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said, crediting its superiority in drone warfare and air defence.
“We have minimised the Russians’ advantage in manpower through the use of drones,” Sybiha said.
He added: “For us, the situation on the battlefield is about strengthening our negotiating position. We can shoot down up to 90 per cent of the targets that strike our cities… [Ukraine’s] position on the battlefield is indeed the strongest, or the most solid, it has been over the past year.”
A analysis earlier this month from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) found that Russia made almost no territorial gains across the frontline in March, its worst progress in two and a half years.
This comes as Volodymyr Zelensky renewed calls for trilateral peace discussions with Russia despite US negotiators being preoccupied by the war in Iran.
The Kremlin has rebuffed the call for fresh talks between leaders, saying Vladimir Putin will only sit down with Zelensky to finalise an agreed peace deal.
