Putin Attacks Ukraine Just Hours After Trump Claimed He Had Promised Not To
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A total of 111 long-range drones and one ballastic missile were fired into Ukraine on Friday by Russia.
WASHINGTON – A mere hours after President Donald Trump claimed that Vladimir Putin had agreed to stop attacking Ukraine because of the cold weather there, the Russian dictator rained down more than 100 drones and a ballistic missile on the neighbor he is still trying to take by force.
A city bus driver was killed and five civilians injured in Kherson on Friday, according to local media, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported continuing attacks against residents elsewhere.
“Drone attacks on ordinary residential buildings in cities also continue. A ballistic missile was used against the Kharkiv region – civilian production warehouses were damaged, including those of an American company,” Zelenskyy wrote in a social media post, apparently referring to a facility owned by tobacco giant Philip Morris.
A total of 111 long-range drones and one ballistic missile were launched into Ukraine on Friday, according to the Institute for the Study of War, an independent group tracking Russia’s attacks.
On Thursday afternoon, Trump had boasted how his personal intervention was helping Ukrainians as they struggled through a bitter cold snap that was sending overnight temperatures there below zero degrees Fahrenheit.
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