{"id":168273,"date":"2025-06-08T18:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168273\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T18:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T18:42:15","slug":"ukrainian-drone-attack-on-moscow-closes-2-major-airports-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168273\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow closes 2 major airports \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Later Sunday, Moscow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mod_russia_en\/21673\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>\u00a0it was pushing into Ukraine\u2019s eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russia-advances-east-central-ukrainian-region-amid-row-over-dead-soldiers-2025-06-08\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russia-advances-east-central-ukrainian-region-amid-row-over-dead-soldiers-2025-06-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dnipropetrovsk region<\/a> for the first time in its three-year offensive \u2014 a significant territorial escalation amid stalled peace talks. The claim could not be independently verified. <\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/russia-says-pushing-offensive-ukraines-094901949.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/russia-says-pushing-offensive-ukraines-094901949.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repeatedly refused calls<\/a> by Ukraine, Europe and U.S. President Donald Trump for a full and unconditional ceasefire even as Moscow holds talks with Kyiv on a possible settlement to the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a spat escalated between Moscow and Kyiv over a stalled prisoner exchange deal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-ceasefire-peace-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struck<\/a> at talks in Istanbul last Monday, which would release all severely injured and ill prisoners of war, as well as all captured soldiers aged 18-25. Both sides also agreed to return the bodies of 12,000 fallen soldiers, 6,000 on each side. <\/p>\n<p>But on Saturday, the Kremlin <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/vr_medinskiy\/2594\" target=\"_blank\">accused<\/a> Ukrainian negotiators of indefinitely postponing the swap \u2014 claims swiftly rejected by Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge Kyiv to strictly adhere to the timetable and all agreements reached and to begin the exchange immediately,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/vr_medinskiy\/2594\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Vladimir Medinsky, aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian statements \u201cdo not correspond to reality and previous agreements on either the exchange of prisoners or the repatriation of bodies,\u201d Andriy Kovalenko, a Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council official, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Koord_shtab\/12959\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> on Telegram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Later Sunday, Moscow\u00a0said\u00a0it was pushing into Ukraine\u2019s eastern Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time in its three-year offensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2594,4328,473,2595,2000,299,660,25809,7965,332,5549,38553,1199,657,333,2601,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-168273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-airports","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-drones","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-kremlin","15":"tag-mayors","16":"tag-platforms","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-safety","19":"tag-sergei-sobyanin","20":"tag-services","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-vladimir-putin","23":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","24":"tag-war","25":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114649218615807525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168273","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=168273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}