Ukraine-Russia war latest: Moscow launched 300 attack drones in first 3 days of 2025, Zelensky says
Russia launched 300 attack drones and nearly 20 missiles on Ukrainian targets in the first three days of 2025, Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram, as cross border attacks killed three in Ukraine and Russia yesterday.
Most of the drones and missiles had been downed or intercepted, Mr Zelensky said.
Meanwhile, Russia has enlisted between 140,000 and 180,000 prison inmates to fight in the war, Ukraine’sForeign Intelligence Service (SZRU) said, according to the Kyiv Independent.
A Russian government decree abolishing the one-time payment of £2,842 to prisoners for signing a contract with the Russian Defence Ministry to participate in the war against Ukraine came into effect on 1 January.
Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service claimed it was an “evidence of the deepening crisis in the Russian economy and the shortage of financial resources”. The Independent could not verify these claims.
It comes as Mr Zelensky lauded incoming US president Donald Trump saying he could be decisive in the outcome of the 34-month-old war with Russia and help stop Vladimir Putin.
