{"id":111576,"date":"2025-05-18T11:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T11:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111576\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T11:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T11:35:11","slug":"russia-slams-ukraine-with-biggest-drone-attack-of-the-war-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111576\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia slams Ukraine with biggest drone attack of the war \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia seemingly used a lot of decoy drones, the Ukrainian air force said, because almost half of the attacking vehicles simply disappeared from the radar systems. Some 88 of them were intercepted, it said.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump late Saturday said he will call both Putin and Zelenskyy on Monday as he looks to broker an end to the conflict. Although Zelenskyy attended a meeting in Turkey last week to discuss a ceasefire, Putin didn\u2019t even send a minister<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Europe, meanwhile, is far from discussing peacekeeping troops for Ukraine, new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said as he was visiting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome. A ceasefire is the necessary first step, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no reason to talk about [troops] at the moment; we are far from that. We want the weapons to stop, the killing to end,\u201d Merz said on Saturday. \u00a0<\/p>\n

At a meeting in the Albanian capital of Tirana on Friday, European leaders discussed further sanctions threats<\/a> to pressure Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia seemingly used a lot of decoy drones, the Ukrainian air force said, because almost half of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[2594,473,32,2595,1945,2440,660,24082,2822,332,2663,461,657,49,333,2601,335,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-111576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-drones","12":"tag-friedrich-merz","13":"tag-giorgia-meloni","14":"tag-kremlin","15":"tag-radar","16":"tag-regions-cohesion","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-sanctions","19":"tag-turkey","20":"tag-ukraine","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-vladimir-putin","23":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","24":"tag-war-in-ukraine","25":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114528631160206999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}