Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin’s forces launch daytime assault on Ukrainian city with hundreds of drones
Russia has launched more than 400 drones at Ukraine in a daytime attack, injuring 10 people in the western city of Ternopil, Ukrainian officials said on Friday.
Ukraine’s air force said the onslaught took place between 8 am and 3.30 pm local time as air force units downed or neutralised 388 of them in the north, south, centre and west of the country.
It follows a Ukrainian attack on a major oil refinery in the Black Sea port city of Tuapse for the fourth time in two weeks. The overnight strike caused a fire but there were no injuries.
Meanwhile, Russian drones struck the Ukrainian port city of Odesa overnight, injuring at least 20 people and damaging residential buildings and civilian infrastructure, including a kindergarten.
Russia said it would implement a temporary ceasefire around Victory Day on 9 May regardless of Ukraine’s response. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the truce “will be implemented” and that “a response is not, in fact, required”.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed the proposal as insufficient, saying Ukraine supported a longer-term ceasefire rather than “a few hours of security for a parade in Moscow”.
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