Russia sent a record number of drones into Ukraine as Trump says Putin has ‘gone crazy’

Ukrainian official said on Monday that Russia during the night launched the largest drone on Ukraine in more than three years, Russia said on Monday. President Donald Trump said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had become “crazy” by intensifying the bombing of Ukraine just as the United States is trying.

Yuri Ehnat, head of the Ukrainian Air Force Communications Department, told the Associated Press that the Russian bombing included 355 drones.

The night before, Russia fired 298 drones and 69 missiles of various types in Ukraine, while the Ukrainians said was the largest joint air attack during the conflict. From Friday to Sunday, Russia launched about 900 drones in Ukraine.

The escalation seemed to slow down in Trump’s peace efforts to achieve progress in the short term, as Putin seems to be determined to capture more Ukrainian lands and cause more damage.

Russia this month destroyed its record of Ukraine’s aerial bombardment three times. The expansion of its air campaign came after Kyiv accepted in March the 30 -day ceasefire proposed by the United States, but Moscow rejected it effectively.

Russia is also still pushing along the 1,000 -km front line (620 miles), as it has made slow and costly progress, and collects its forces for a summer attack, says Ukrainian and military analysts.

Ukraine President Volodimir Zellinski wrote on a telegram on Monday: “The sense of fully impunity can allow Russia to carry out such attacks and constantly escalate their scope.” “There is no great military logic for this, but there is a great political meaning.”

He reiterated his call to more international economic sanctions stressing Russia as a way to end the war, because “Russia’s desire to fight must be deprived of resources.”

On Monday, senior diplomats in the European Union, the head of foreign policy Kaja Calas, described the last attacks on Kiev as “completely horrific” and said that the bloc aims to impose more sanctions on Russia.

Trump has threatened to impose massive sanctions on Moscow as well, but so far it has not taken action.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin was making necessary decisions to ensure Russia’s security and that the attacks were Moscow’s response to deep strikes by Ukraine.

Peskov said Russia is grateful for the American efforts to bring peace, which included the first direct peace talks for the countries in three years.

He said that the negotiations in “a decisive moment are related to the extra emotional pregnancy for all and emotional reactions.”

Ukrainian numbers of the number of drones and missiles cannot be checked independently.

Trump explained that he loses his patience with Putin. “I always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin from Russia, but something happened to him. He became completely crazy!” Trump wrote in a post on social media on Sunday night.

Trump said that Putin “kills many people unnecessarily,” noting that “missiles and drones are shot in cities in Ukraine, without any reason.”

The US president warned that if Putin wants to conquer all Ukraine, he would “lead to the fall of Russia!” But Trump expressed his frustration with Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski, saying that he “is doing his country, do not prefer by speaking the way he does.”

Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds of other prisoners on Sunday in the third and final part of the main exchange, which was a rare moment of cooperation

The Russian Ministry of Defense said that each side exchanged 303 soldiers, after the issuance of 307 fighters and civilians for every Saturday, and 390 on Friday – the largest total replacement of the war.

In their talks held in Istanbul earlier this month, Kiev and Moscow agreed to swap 1,000 prisoners and civilian detainees for each of them. The exchange was the only concrete result of conversations.