Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump calls Putin ‘absolutely crazy’ after Moscow’s largest air raid kills 12

Ukrainian drones fired over the border across Russia have reportedly hit several military production facilities.

Footage on Russian social media site Telegram appeared to show damage at a drone manufacturing plant in Yelabuga, Tatarstan Republic, some 600 miles from the Ukrainian border.

Local residents reported air defence fire and drones flying over Yelabuga late last night.

Additional footage appeared to show smoke rising above a chemical factory in Kineshma, Ivanovo Oblast, which produces components for Russian military equipment and missiles.

At least 10 explosions were heard in that region overnight. The local government confirmed that at least one drone had hit the facility.

Russia’s defence ministry claimed they had shot down 148 drones between 10am local time yesterday and 8am this morning.

Donald Trump’s talk of peace has ultimately led to Vladimir Putin “intensifying the fight” against innocent Ukrainiains, an opposition leader in Kyiv has told The Independent.

Kira Rudik, leader of the Ukrainian opposition Holos party, says last night’s massive drone and missile attack was devastating for the country. It forced millions of Ukrainians into shelters and killed at least a dozen people.

“Putin launched these drones and missiles as an answer to all the attempts to bring him to the negotiating table and move ahead with the 30-day ceasefire,” she said.

“These attempts were led by European leaders and Trump but they only led to Putin intensifying the fight.

“Ukraine is paying for it with the lives of our citizens. We are calling for the leaders of the free world to stop believing these illusions and look at the facts: Putin will not stop unless he is stopped.”

Ukraine’s state emergency services has posted photos from the site of a drone strike in the northeast Kharkiv region, one of hundreds of projectiles launched by Russia overnight.

It was one of the largest aerial attacks of the more than three year war. Ukraine said Russia fired 367 drones and missiles overnight.

Below, you can see photos of the aftermath of the attacks on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city and home to some 1.3 million people.

Ukrainian forces captured 971 Russian soldiers during a months-long offensive in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, the general staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said, describing the campaign as key to facilitating prisoner exchanges.

He said the 971 Russian troops were taken prisoner between 6 August 2024 and 25 May 2025, as part of Ukraine’s ongoing offensive in Kursk Oblast.

The military characterised the campaign as an “unexpected and asymmetric” manoeuvre that helped build up the so-called “exchange fund” – a term used in Ukraine for captured Russian soldiers who can be traded for Ukrainian POWs.

The strategic value of the Kursk operation had previously been questioned by critics, who pointed to its high costs and uncertain benefits.

“Only unconventional decisions can defeat a numerically superior enemy,” the statement read. “The Kursk campaign has proven to be exactly that – its success recognised around the world.”

At least 12 people including three children have been killed in the single largest attack since the war began in 2022.

It was the largest attack of the war in terms of weapons fired, although other strikes have killed more people.

Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said 12 people had been killed and 60 more wounded.

Earlier death tolls given separately by regional authorities and rescuers had put the number of dead at 13.

“This was a combined, ruthless strike aimed at civilians. The enemy once again showed that its goal is fear and death,” he wrote on Telegram.

Ukraine’s air force said Russia had launched 298 drones and 69 missiles in its overnight assault, although it said it was able to down 266 drones and 45 missiles. Damage extended to a string of regional centres, including Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, as well as Mykolaiv in the south and Ternopil in the west.

In Kyiv, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city’s military administration, said 11 people were injured in drone strikes.

No deaths were reported in the capital, although four were killed in the region around the city, according to officials.

This was the second large aerial attack in two days.

On Friday evening, Russia launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles at Kyiv in waves that continued through the night.

In northeastern Ukraine, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said early on Sunday that drones hit three city districts and injured three people. Blasts shattered windows in high-rise apartment blocks.

Drone strikes killed a 77-year-old man and injured five people in the southern city of Mykolaiv, the regional governor said.

He published a picture of a residential apartment block with a large hole from an explosion and rubble scattered over the ground. In the western region of Khmelnytskyi, many hundreds of kilometres away from the frontlines of fighting, four people were killed and five others wounded, according to the governor.

“Without pressure, nothing will change and Russia and its allies will only build up forces for such murders in Western countries,” the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak wrote on Telegram. “Moscow will fight as long as it has the ability to produce weapons.”

President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced three new sanction packages against Russia.

In a Facebook post, Mr Zelensky outlined the scope of the latest measures which came into effect on Sunday.

They aim to penalise Russian individuals and networks supporting the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine.

“Ukraine continues to coordinate its sanction decisions with the sanction regimes of the European Union and other key global jurisdictions,” Mr Zelensky said.

He said: “The first targets Russian individuals involved in financing Russian terrorist activities, financial manipulations, and sanctions evasion schemes that serve Russia’s interests.

“The second package targets propagandists whose lies fuel Russia’s attacks on Ukraine.

“The third applies to members of Russian mafia groups who have significantly helped establish Putin’s regime and are still associated with it.”

The Netherlands will send the last one of 24 promised F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine on Monday, defence minister Ruben Brekelmans said on Sunday on a Dutch television talk show.

The first 23 Dutch F-16 jets were delivered last summer. The Netherlands has also provided fighter jets to a training centre in Romania for Ukrainian pilots and crew.

“We are also training pilots and technicians and sharing our military doctrines, so that Ukraine can build a modern armed force that matches that of the Nato member states,” Mr Brekelmans said on air.

Ukraine has been promised fighter jets by European allies, including 19 F-16s from Denmark, 30 from Belgium, and at least six from Norway as part of efforts to bolster its air defences.

At least two airports in Moscow halted flight operations, Russia’s aviation watchdog said, as air defence systems in the capital thwarted drone attacks.

Moscow’s Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports temporarily halted flights, Russia’s aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia said.

Russia’s defence ministry said on Monday that air defence systems had downed 96 Ukrainian drones, including six over Moscow region.