Ukraine-Russia war – live: Moscow targeted in huge drone attack exchange as ‘Trump calls Putin’
Airports in Moscow suspended operations and at least one person was injured after Ukraine carried out the largest drone strike on the capital since Vladimir Putin’s invasion in 2022.
Russia and Ukraine attacked each other with a record number of drones on Sunday as US president-elect Donald Trump reportedly spoke with the Russian president.
Russia’s defence ministry said it downed 84 Ukrainian drones over six regions, including nearly half of them in the skies above Moscow.
Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia attacked the country with 145 drones, the largest number yet.
The drone blitz came as Mr Trump advised his Russian counterpart not to escalate the Ukraine war, Reuters and The Washington Post reported.
The British Army chief claimed Russia was losing the highest number of soldiers a day since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Sir Tony Radakin told the BBC that Russian forces were suffering 1,500 casualties a day.
He described the cost of the war on the Russian people as “extraordinary”.
