Russia launches a larger air attack since the beginning of the war, Ukraine officials say

A new wave of Russian air attacks killed at least one person and wounded another six in Ukraine as hope of an advance in efforts to end the Three -year war They were more discontinuous.

Russia fired a total of 537 air weapons in Ukraine, including 477 drones and lures and 60 missiles, said the Ukraine Air Force. It was “the most massive air attack” since the war began after the large -scale invasion of Russia in February 2022, said Yuriy Ihnat, head of communications of the Ukraine Air Force, to The News

The Air Force said that 249 drones were demolished and 226 were lost, probably having been stuck electronically.

The attack went to several regions, including Western Ukraine, far from the front line.

A person died in a drone strike in the Kherson region, said Governor Oleksandr Prokudin, while another died when a drone hit a car in the Kharkiv region, according to his governor Oleh Syniehubov. Six people were injured in Chekasy, including a child, according to Regional Governor Ihor Taburets.

In the region of the West of Lvvvv, a great fire broke out in an industrial installation in the Drochobych city after a drone attack that also reduced electricity to parts of the city.

The Ukraine Air Force said that one of its F-16 combat aircraft supplied by its western partners crashed after damage while demolishing aerial goals. The pilot died.

“The pilot used all his weapons aboard and demolished seven aerial goals. While shooting the last one, his plane was damaged and began to lose altitude,” said the Air Force in the Telegram messaging application, according to Reuters.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said it had demolished three Ukrainian drones during the night.

Two people were injured in another attack by Ukrainian drones against the city of Bryansk in western Russia, said regional governor Alexander Bogomaz on Sunday morning, and added that seven Ukrainian drones had been shot down on the region.

Meanwhile, Russia said Sunday that he had taken control of the Navoukrainka village in the Donetsk region occupied by partially Russian.

The Russian forces have been slowly moving forward in some points in the front line of approximately 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), although their incremental profits have been expensive in terms of troop casualties and damaged armor.

In other developments, Russia’s foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin said he had spoken by phone with his American counterpart, the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe.

“I received a phone call with my American counterpart and we reserve the possibility of calling at any time and discussing issues of interest to us,” Naryshkin said in comments to state television reporter Pavel Zarubin, who published them on his telegram channel on Sunday.

Sunday’s attacks follow the comments of Russian President Vladimir Putin two days ago that Moscow is ready for a new round of Direct Peace Conversations in Istanbul.

However, the war does not show signs of decreasing, since so far international peace efforts led by the United States have not produced any advance. Two recent rounds of conversations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul were brief and did not produce progress to reach an agreement.

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