LONDON — A high aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin recommended that President Donald Trump “shouldn’t be getting sufficient info” about Moscow’s warfare on Ukraine, after Trump criticized Putin for his obvious reluctance to pursue a peace deal and warned that the Kremlin was “taking part in with fireplace.”
“There’s a lot that Trump says, we learn all of it, observe it, however in some ways we come to the conclusion that Trump shouldn’t be getting sufficient details about what is absolutely occurring within the context of the Ukrainian-Russian confrontation,” Yuri Ushakov mentioned in an interview with Russian propagandist Pavel Zarubin revealed on Wednesday.
“Specifically, he’s not being knowledgeable sufficient about what huge terrorist assaults are being carried out by Ukraine towards peaceable Russian cities,” Ushakov mentioned. “Trump solely is aware of what countermeasures we’re taking, and he doesn’t totally perceive that we’re attacking army establishments or army industrial complexes.”
The feedback got here after lots of of Ukrainian drones crossed into Russia in a single day into Wednesday morning, dozens of which focused Moscow and once more induced disruption to flights out and in of the capital, in accordance with officers there.
A firefighter works exterior a burning home whereas placing out a fireplace following what native authorities referred to as a Ukrainian drone assault on a settlement within the Moscow area, Russia, on this image revealed Could 28, 2025.
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Russia’s Protection Ministry mentioned its forces shot down 296 Ukrainian drones over 12 areas — together with the capital Moscow — in the course of the newest spherical of long-range strikes.
Moscow Governor Andrei Vorobyov mentioned on Telegram that at the very least 42 drones have been downed over the area. Vorobyov reported injury to 3 houses within the city of Chekhov round 40 miles south of the capital.
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Worldwide Airport — one among 4 worldwide airports within the capital — additionally warned vacationers of delays as a consequence of flight restrictions imposed in the course of the newest drone assault. Current weeks have seen common disruptions to Moscow’s airports throughout such strikes.
Andriy Kovalenko, the pinnacle of the Counter-Disinformation Middle working as a part of Ukraine’s Nationwide Safety and Protection Council, mentioned on Telegram there have been “some fairly good hits” throughout Tuesday night time’s assault.
Among the many targets have been the Dubna Machine-Constructing Plant — concerned within the manufacturing of aviation, missile and drone know-how, Kovalenko mentioned — within the metropolis of Dubna, round 70 miles north of Moscow.
Kovalenko mentioned the Technopark ELMA-Zelenograd facility — which hosts the event of microelectronics, IT, robotics and medical gear — was additionally focused. The power “is among the facilities the place import substitution of vital elements beforehand imported from the West takes place,” Kovalenko mentioned.
ABC Information couldn’t instantly confirm Kovalenko’s declare of profitable strikes on the amenities.
Russia continued its personal long-range assaults on Ukraine in a single day. Ukraine’s air pressure mentioned Moscow launched six missiles and 88 strike drones into the nation, of which 71 drones have been shot down or in any other case neutralized. The air pressure mentioned it recorded impacts in eight places.
The depth of strikes by either side have solely elevated since Trump’s return to workplace in January, the president having promised to finish Russia’s warfare on its neighbor warfare in 24 hours. Trump has not delivered on that promise, and his frustration seems to have been constructing in latest weeks with the continued failure of U.S.-led ceasefire efforts.
Trump referred to as Putin “completely loopy” in a Sunday social media put up, then on Tuesday mentioned Putin “doesn’t understand is that if it weren’t for me, plenty of actually dangerous issues would have already occurred to Russia, and I imply REALLY BAD. He’s taking part in with fireplace!”
A Ukrainian serviceman stands subsequent to a captured Russian self-propelled howitzer within the Zaporizhzhia area of Ukraine on Could 27, 2025.
Andriy Andriyenko/through Reuters
The U.S. and Ukraine are actually ready for Russia to ship its peace memorandum — a doc promised by Putin to Trump throughout a telephone name between the 2 leaders earlier this month. Russia’s Overseas Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova mentioned Tuesday that Moscow was nonetheless engaged on the doc.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy forged doubt on the Russian proposal. “They’ve already spent over per week on this,” he wrote on social media on Tuesday. “They discuss quite a bit about diplomacy. However when, within the midst of all that, there are fixed Russian strikes, fixed killings, relentless assaults, and even preparations for brand new offensives.”
On Wednesday, Andriy Yermak — the pinnacle of Zelenskyy’s presidential workplace — wrote on Telegram, “Russians are masters of empty phrases.”
