Russia says, hit by “massive” drone attack before decisive discussions between the USA and Ukraine

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Russia said it was hit by a “massive” Ukrainian drone attack on Tuesday, hours before critical talks between civil servants from Washington and Kyiv.

Moscow’s Ministry of Defense said that 337 drones had fallen that had released Ukraine in Russia, 91 of which the Moscow region had targeted.

If confirmed, the air raids would be one of the largest in Russia since its invasion of Ukraine.

In Moscow damaged debris damaged the buildings in what Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in the telegram was a “most massive” attack.

Two people were killed in the Moscow region and at least six injured, said Andrey Vorobyev in the telegram, the regional governor Andrey Vorobyev. He added that the falling debris began a fire in a parking lot on which more than 20 cars were burned.

The video geolocated by CNN shows an explosion in a residential building in the Südmoskau region.

The reported attacks forced two airports in Moscow for security reasons and two airports east of the city, according to the state news agency TASS, and added that several flights to Moscow were diverted to other airports.

In the meantime, the Ukrainian Air Force said that it had defended against Russian ballistic rocket and drone attacks overnight. According to a CNN number of numbers published by various Ukrainian officials, at least one person was killed and 18 injured.

The attacks on Tuesday are the planned discussions between the United States and the Ukrainian delegations in Saudi Arabia. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the national security advisor Mike Waltz are to make the Ukrainian national security advisor, foreign minister and minister of defense.

The chief of staff of Zelensky, Andriy Yermak, said early Tuesday that the Ukrainian team prepared for work.

“We will protect the Ukrainian interests, have a clear vision, to end the war and to work effectively with our American partners,” he wrote on telegram.

Before the meeting, Rubio said that the United States wanted to hear the concessions of Ukraine in negotiations to end war with Russia, and that the talks could determine whether Washington would be resumed to share military help and full secret services with Kyiv.

CNN previously reported that the United States still shares secret services with Ukraine that can help its troops to defend themselves, but, according to two US defense officers, “withdrawn” that could be used for the offensive targeting of Russian armed forces.

The battles on site have tightened in the past few weeks because the US Ukraine relationship after the screaming match between US President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was determined in the Oval Office.

Russia started a big attack on Ukraine last Friday and Saturday, in which, according to the Ukrainian authorities, more than two dozen people were killed. Another series of attacks killed six other civilians from Sunday to Monday.

The presence of Ukraine in the Russian region of Kursk is also shrinking, and Russian progress threatens Kyiv’s sole territorial negotiation counter at a crucial time in war.

The reported attack by Ukraine on Moscow on Tuesday seemed greater than the biggest attack on the Russian capital last November last November.

Russia said that 34 Ukrainian drones had been switched off during this attack, in which a woman was injured, forced the temporary closure of the airspace and set up two houses.

Last September said Russia that at least 20 Ukrainian drones near Moscow destroyed in an attack, in which at least one person killed and the airport closures in the capital were forced.