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Moscow comes under 'massive' drone attack leaving civilians killed and three injured (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Russia has been bombarded in the biggest Ukrainian drone attack of the war, Moscow officials have said, on the same day as crunch talks are set to be held between Kyiv and the United States.

The Russian Defence Ministry said air defences shot down 337 Ukrainian drones over 10 Russian regions overnight, a record high, as Ukraine hit back at a series of brutal recent attacks launched by Moscow.

At least one Russian civilian has been killed and several injured, with dramatic footage showing fires raging from the exploding drones including in high rise residential buildings near Moscow.

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[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

There would have been a war because the DNR and LNR seceded, and Ukraine refused to negotiate in good faith, choosing to bomb civilians into an unconditional surrender.

We will all win! Because we will have a job — they don't have one. We will have pensions — they don't have them. We will have the support of people — children and pensioners — but they do not have it. Our children will go to schools and kindergartens, and they will have them sitting in basements. Because they don't know how to do anything! That's how, that's how we're going to win this war.

Poroshenko said this in 2014.