grinding<\/a> its way along several parts of the Ukrainian front line in recent months, throwing forth continuous waves of infantry as it seeks to press home its advantage in troops and munitions.<\/p>\nRussian forces have already pushed into northern Ukraine\u2019s Sumy region over the past months, carving out a small foothold there.<\/p>\n
Russia fired 322 drones and decoys into Ukraine overnight into Saturday, Ukraine\u2019s air force said. Of these, 157 were shot down and 135 were lost, likely having been electronically jammed.<\/p>\n
Ukraine has also ramped up its retaliatory strikes in Russia, with the Ministry of Defence saying it shot down 94 Ukrainian drones overnight into Saturday, along with 45 further drones in the morning and early afternoon.<\/p>\n
Four Ukrainian drones also were shot down while approaching Moscow on Saturday, according to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Meanwhile, a woman was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in the Rostov region, the acting governor said.<\/p>\n
Separately, the Ukrainian military said in a statement on social media on Saturday that its special forces struck Russia\u2019s Borisoglebsk military airfield in the Voronezh region, hitting a glide bomb store and a trainer aircraft.<\/p>\n
The military said that other aircraft were also likely hit, without giving details.<\/p>\n
The governor of Voronezh, Alexander Gusev, wrote on Telegram that more than 25 drones were destroyed over the region overnight. He said a power line was temporarily damaged, but made no mention of a military airfield.<\/p>\n
The attacks come as Ukraine\u2019s Zelenskyy said on Friday that he had a \u201cvery important and fruitful\u201d phone conversation with US President Donald Trump in his efforts to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s air defences.<\/p>\n
The US president also spoke to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, a day earlier in a conversation that he said was disappointing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very disappointed with the conversation I had today with President Putin, because I don\u2019t think he\u2019s there, and I\u2019m very disappointed,\u201d Trump said after the call on Thursday. \u201cI\u2019m just saying I don\u2019t think he\u2019s looking to stop, and that\u2019s too bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that it was \u201cpreferable\u201d to achieve the goals of Russia\u2019s invasion through political and diplomatic means.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut as long as that is not possible, we are continuing the special operation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antonio Guterres raises alarm over \u2018dangerous escalation\u2019 after hours-long Russian drone and missile barrage this week. United Nations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[6178,2000,299,12,332,7661,657,8406],"class_list":{"0":"post-240861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-conflict","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-united-nations"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240861","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=240861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}