Ukraine undergoes the biggest attack as Trump criticizes Putin

President Volodimir Zelenski says Ukraine was affected by the largest air attack from Russia – 728 drones and 13 cruise or ballistic missiles hit cities around the country in multiple waves.

Zelenski condemned the “storytelling attack”, adding: “It comes right when so much effort is made to achieve peace, to establish a cessation of fire, and yet only Russia continues to repel them all.”

The strike overnight came after President Donald Trump said the United States would send more weapons to Kiev – canceling last week’s suspension, which US media said Trump did not know.

On Tuesday, the US leader expressed increasing dissatisfaction with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“We get a lot of nonsense thrown at us by Putin if you want to know the truth,” Trump told reporters. “He is very kind to us all the time, but it turns out to be pointless.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow was “quite calm about this. The way of talking to Trump is generally quite raw, the phrases he uses.”

The two leaders were in regular contact, but so far this failed to become tangible steps to end the fire in Ukraine – something Trump once said that he would be able to achieve in a day.

Last week, after a phone call with the Russian president, Trump said he was “very unhappy”.

“He wants to go to the end, just keep killing people, it’s not good,” Trump told Putin.

The criticism came, even when the Trump administration announced a suspension of military assistance to Ukraine, authorized by US Secretary of Defense Pete Heget and Elbridge Colby, the Subject to the Defense Defense.

Asked by reporters on Tuesday who made the decision, Trump – sitting next to heget – replied, “I don’t know. Why don’t you tell me?”

The cancellation of the decision can now mean that 10 Patriot rockets can be sent to Ukraine, according to the American Outlet Axios.

Kiev relies on interceptors to try to oppose Russia’s missiles and drone attacks, which continue to increase in intensity and frequency.

On Tuesday, Trump also stated that he was watching a Republican Senator Sanction Bill, Lindsay Graham, who will see 500% tariffs imposed on countries trading with Russia.

Trump threatens sanctions against Russia after taking office in January, but has not been able to impose anyone so far. In June, he said he said that the sanctions were “costing a lot of money” and signaled that he was waiting to see if a deal would be signed between Russia and Ukraine instead.

However, last week, the US president said he and Putin had discussed the “many” sanctions and added: “He understands he can come.”

Although the eastern part of the country and Kiev are regularly firing, no corner of Ukraine is spared by Russian strikes.

The town of Lutsk – which is located 90 km (56 miles) from the Polish border and is a transit center for military and humanitarian aid – suffered the weight of the attack on Tuesday at night.

The explosions in Western cities Lviv and Rivne have also been reported.

The Russian authorities, for their part, said the Ukrainian drone attack in the Kursk border region killed three people and wounded seven others on Tuesday.

Two rounds of negotiations for the termination of fire between Russia and Ukraine were held earlier this year, but so far no other meetings have been scheduled – neither Moscow nor Kiev seem optimistic that diplomacy will resolve the conflict, which was ignited by the full -scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine in 2022.

Meanwhile, Russia’s summer in Eastern Ukraine is grinded.

“We’re moving forward,” Peskov said on Wednesday. “Every new day, Ukrainians have to accept the new realities.”