Russia is planning “a new massive attack” on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in remarks on May 29, citing Ukrainian intelligence.
Zelensky urged the public to heed air raid alerts, saying emergency services were ready. The Air Force and other air defense units, he added, would work around the clock.
He said Kyiv was accumulating funds from European allies to purchase missiles, but that adequate supplies depend on the United States, and he expressed hope that Washington would respond. Several days earlier, Zelensky had written a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump asking him to protect Ukraine from Russian missiles.
In the early hours of May 24, Russian armed forces carried out a sweeping missile strike on Kyiv that included Oreshnik ballistic missiles, damaging shopping centers and cultural institutions. The strikes killed two people and wounded more than 80.
After the attack, Russia’s Foreign Ministry threatened further strikes against defense enterprises, “decision-making centers,” and command posts in Kyiv in response to a strike on a college dormitory in the occupied Luhansk region that killed more than 20 people.
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