Civilian killed and three injured as Kyiv launches drone attack
www.dailymail.co.uk
The attack came as a Ukrainian delegation was set to meet with America's top diplomat in Saudi Arabia about ending the three-year war with Russia.

Russia has been bombarded in the biggest Ukrainian drone attack of the war, Moscow officials have said, on the same day as crunch talks are set to be held between Kyiv and the United States.

The Russian Defence Ministry said air defences shot down 337 Ukrainian drones over 10 Russian regions overnight, a record high, as Ukraine hit back at a series of brutal recent attacks launched by Moscow.

At least one Russian civilian has been killed and several injured, with dramatic footage showing fires raging from the exploding drones including in high rise residential buildings near Moscow.

  • Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world
    36·
    1 天前

    Having been to both countries, and made friends in both countries, this whole war really hurts to see. I hate the Russian government, but the Russian people don’t deserve this any more than the Ukrainian people deserve being invaded. I can’t give an opinion on how strategically “necessary” this was in the eyes of Ukrainian military leadership, but it’s sad all the same.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
    3·
    21 小时前

    This is what always happens when we stop arming/funding right-wing extremist groups. They make things a million times worse.

    Zelenskyy would rather start WW3 than hold elections. Completely psychotic.

    • bilnkandmissit@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      20 小时前

      How can you all contort yourself into a pretzel to somehow make Zelensky the bad guy? It’s like you forgot who and how this was started.

      Which portion of your country would you give up to an invading country?

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        20 小时前

        texas and florida

        edit: better yet, all the red states from the last election

          • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            20 小时前

            nothing about this or ukraine’s situation is fair.

            nato is a threat to russia, ukraine was fooled into thinking that they could join nato so the russians responded like how americans responded to cuba or mexico, or agentina, or chile when they tried to join the russians or peru or bolivia or paraguay when they try to join china.

            russia and nato are dominant powers for now and like all dominant powers in the past; they get to dictate what other countries can and can’t do; it’s all totally unfair and contortions aren’t needed to understand this fact.

            • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
              2·
              18 小时前

              ukraine was fooled into thinking that they could join nato

              What utter bullshit.

              Ukraine has avoided joining nato as a part of the Budapest treaty with Russia the us and uk.

              Until russia attacked Ukraine had no intention or hope of joining nato.

              None of these Russian properganda excuses change the one clear fact.

              Russia broke that treaty when they attacked not the Ukraine.

      • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
        3·
        19 小时前

        They gave up their entire country to the west when they allowed the US to overthrow their government in the 2014 Maidan Coup. Then they let NATO place troop & missile deployments at the Russian border, in violation of multiple different agreements (Zelenskyy said he supported these agreements to get elected), and now Russia understandably wants a large buffer zone to prevent this from happening again (and protect the ethnic Russians who were being targeted by the Ukrainian far-right).

        News flash: no one who refuses to hold elections, and who bans opposition parties & media, is ever the good guy.

        But I understand that y’all want this proxy war to continue til the last Ukrainian, and don’t understand how dangerous it is to escalate with a nuclear superpower. Not sure how the drone attacks are supposed to convince them they don’t need a buffer zone, but that’s the level of strategizing we’ve come to expect from the Ukrainian government.

  • exploitedamerican@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    1 天前

    Neo liberals: This is just Russian propaganda!!! We must continue giving more guns bombs tanks and military ordinance to the Ukraine to defend democracy which we don’y…. I mean definitely still do have here in the United states because of……. I mean DESPITE… Malignant Russian actors who perpetrated the DNC leaks 9 years ago and DEFINITELY NOT wall street corporate military and prison industry profiteers who own both political parties and collude to manipulate the American people and maintain their fascist neo-feudalistic state at all costs!!!

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        10·
        1 天前

        I don’t really think that’s accurate. Have you actually tried to have a conversation with Marxists regarding the Russo-Ukrainian war, or the Russian Federation or NATO in general? I think you’ll be better able to make sense of Marxist takes, especially if you presumably haven’t read Lenin.

  • Alloi@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 天前

    Daily Mail (essentially trump/putin media)

    i wouldnt be surprised if the russians attacked themselves so they could turn back on their ceasefire and make the ukrainians look like war crazed terrorists.

    ill believe it fully when the ukrainians themselves claim the attack on a non biased platform. this is practically a heresay news source from the far right.

    • purplemeowanon@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12·
      2 天前

      I don’t support Putin but that doesn’t mean I blindly dismiss that civilians get harmed in military conflicts. The thrust of your reasoning appears to be “Ukraine is good, Russia is bad, killing civilians is bad, Ukraine killed Russian civilians…DOES NOT COMPUTE…CONTRADICTION…DISMISS THE FACTS”

      Like, dude. War is Hell. And it’s never as simple as good guys and bad guys. Sure, Putin is a clear bad guy. But most everything else going on is morally grey. As for the facts of the attack, this was confirmed by AP, the BBC, and CNN. Are you sure the British are Trump/Putin media? What about the AP, which has been barred from the White House over Trump’s “Gulf of America” debacle? There’s no excuses for not simply looking it up. You made this post 35 minutes ago.

      EDIT: To be clear, I do oppose Trump, Putin, and the Daily Mail. They are all authoritarian right-wing in ideology if not outright neo-fascist/neo-nationalist/proto-fascist

      • Alloi@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 天前

        im merely dismissing known state propagandist news sources as fact. i need more evidence from unbiased sources to make an educated decision. also timing is sus as hell.

        sorry, i just dont blindly believe the first thing i read, especially from sources like the daily mail. the list on why is long, but it ends with a fascist and an oligarch in the oval office, dismantling the US and attacking my country. and they (daily mail, and news sources like them) are partially responsible for this entire mess.

        war is hell, but the media motivates it, spins it, justifies it, and in itself, it is a weapon of war. its important to question sources, now more than ever.

        • purplemeowanon@lemmy.mlEnglish
          6·
          1 天前

          I guess I’m saying you can dismiss the Daily Mail without developing speculative conspiracy theories to explain away its claims. A broken clock is right twice a day. But, yeah. I wish OP had posted a source other than the Mail

    • Grapho@lemmy.ml
      10·
      1 天前

      i wouldnt be surprised if the russians attacked themselves

      The absolute state of libs. Put down the tinfoil.

      Russians are at the same time desperate for a peace deal bc they’re getting decimated but staging an elaborate and incredibly expensive attack to jettison the deal. ??? Boy am I not surprised your ruling class doesn’t respect your intellect enough to pretend they’re not robbing you blind.

      • Alloi@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 天前

        Russians are at the same time desperate for a peace deal bc they’re getting decimated but staging an elaborate and incredibly expensive attack to jettison the deal. ???

        they do this tactic in war, super advanced technology. its called a “F.I.B.”…works wonders, its been patented and used by the most horrible of fascist regimes, but its said to have existed for millenia, and its a beautiful weapon, a tremendous weapon, some say, and ive heard them, they call it THE BEST weapon, and it works wonders on people, and nearly half of americans, SO MUCH SO in fact that it helped them (oligarchs, russians, bad actors etc) alter many elections over the years. but most recently in the last US election.

        F.I.B.

        F eeding. I diots. B ullshit.

        theres one cure for it, and its a simple program, but you have to want to do it yourself, and do it constantly, every day. and thats the kicker. but here it goes.

        check your sources. look for bias. dont take everything at face value. think critically, question everything, and never stop looking for the truth.

        (on this subject specifically, i need more sources and confirmed evidence beyond what comes from the kremlin, the timing is just…too perfect)

        • Grapho@lemmy.ml
          6·
          1 天前

          This sort of shit is why I distrust gringos, you bring up the villain of the month and y’all might as well be talking about Voldemort. I get that your education is barely good enough to teach you literacy, but you have to get past processing all politics as villanous caricatures and shining armor heroics.

          Grow up.

  • lefixxx@lemmy.world
    48·
    2 天前

    Ok one civilian killed, how many tactical targets did they hit? 337 shot down, how many drones did hit their target? sounds like this post shares only the absolute worst side of the story.

    “The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed to have shot down at least 91 drones in the region around Moscow and more than 240 drones directed at other targets across the country.”

    “The Ukrainian military said it had targeted Moscow’s oil refinery, which provides more than a third of the fuel consumed in the capital region, along with an oil production station in the Orel region. Neither claim could be independently verified.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/world/europe/ukraine-russia-moscow-war-drones.html

    "Ukraine’s armed forces “struck a number of strategic objects of the Russian Federation involved in ensuring armed aggression against Ukraine,” they said in a statement Tuesday.

    The Russian military said it shot down 337 Ukrainian drones over 10 Russian regions. Three people were killed and 18 injured, and several residential buildings damaged, according to Russian officials."

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
      23·
      2 天前

      NYT does not say whether a civilian was killed or soldier. They all leave that out. Like almost all Western newspapers. Which is why you got Daily Mail.

  • Dzso@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 天前

    If Ukraine actually did this, it’s a beautiful find out stage after Russia has been fucking around for far too long. But the skeptic in me says this is actually a false flag staged to manufacture reasons to deny peace talks and continue to escalate.

    • CherryBullets@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 天前

      People who don’t understand what Ukraine is doing are priviledged and their culture has never had to fight an oppressor or they won long ago and their people simply forgot what it was like to fight to survive.

      My people were invaded, genocided and attempts were made to assimilate us after genocide attempts failed. Our patriots fought back for many years, but ultimately lost. Know what the oppressors called our patriots? The old way of calling your victim a “terrorist” for fighting back: A traitor to the crown (you can guess which nation did this to us now). Our patriots were hung in mass and anyone that believed in the cause and rebelled were also hung. Our patriots had killed many soldiers and civilians in the attempts to free our people from the invading nation. It was unavoidable and a necessary sacrifice to make for the cause in their minds. Today, we have a holiday in their honour, as our people ended up surviving the genocide and assimilation attempts and we didn’t forget their efforts to free us.

      Death is part of war and a victim of oppression is allowed to defend themselves from being genocided. The struggles to survive don’t just happen within people’s rose tinted glasses. I’m tired of the priviledged trying to control the narrative of what is “right” or “wrong” for a nation to do in response to being genocided.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
      16·
      2 天前

      Russia doesn’t need a pretext, they’re winning the war. Meanwhile, the fact that you think terrorist attacks against civilians is a beautiful things says all we need to know about you as a person.

    • purplemeowanon@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 天前

      Have you ever considered that Ukraine doesn’t want peace talks to succeed? Agree with it or not, they want their land back. By attacking Russia in its capital heavily right before peace talks, they’re daring Putin to fume about it and end up violating the ceasefire, giving Ukraine the ability to say “We told you so” and ask for more money from the US and EU.

  • CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 天前

    When was it? I’m looking at Russian news and not seeing anything, they’re usually pretty eager to talk about drone attacks. I read about one on Nizhny Novgorod, IIRC it was early morning 11.03

    • Grapho@lemmy.ml
      17·
      3 天前

      This is a stupid escalation. If Russia so wished, they could level Kyiv overnight, they have more than enough weapons to do it.

      Now, that would be the kind of shit liberals pretend Russia is already doing, just carpet bombing the entire area willy nilly (because they think what the fascist US does is what everyone does), but it’s not been the strategy, given that Russia doesn’t want to make a lifelong enemy of the Ukrainian people and it would make the peace talks that Russia hasn’t taken off the table from day one all but impossible.

      The only reason this is happening is because Zelensky knows what awaits him specifically as soon as the war is done, he’ll get hung out to dry for all the war crimes the US commissioned in the first place.

      • frozenspinach@lemmy.mlEnglish
        9·
        2 天前

        If Russia so wished, they could level Kyiv overnight

        AKA the “Jeffrey Dahmer could have been worse” argument lol

        Relevant SMBC:

        Lawyer: Okay, let’s say my client killed his wife. What about the people he didn’t kill?! That’s six billion people! Don’t they matter? Don’t they matter?!

        Caption: In an alternate universe, Jeffrey Dahmer has a thank you parade every year.

        https://smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=299

        • Grapho@lemmy.ml
          4·
          2 天前

          I swear to god libs are incapable of conceiving more than 5 people in their head at any time, always with the reductive analogies, and it’s always a rapist or a serial killer or both. Grow the fuck up.

      • Donebrach@lemmy.world
        19·
        2 天前

        how boring of a shill do you have to be to want to try and cast Russia as a hero at any point in the past 100 years, let alone in the past 11?

        what a disgusting asshole writing complete fiction.

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
          14·
          2 天前

          Regardless of your opinion on the current war, the Soviet Union was by and large one of the best countries in the 20th century, from siding with Palestine, Cuba, China, etc to defeating the Nazis to making dramatic strides for the working class. Of all the major world powers, the Soviet Union was definitely the most able to be considered heroic.

            • Grapho@lemmy.ml
              8·
              2 天前

              No facts, no thoughts, just thinking Hollywood propaganda films are as good as reading a book lmao

              • frozenspinach@lemmy.mlEnglish
                4·
                2 天前

                Great point, Holodomor was fabricated by Hollywood on the same fake sets as the moon landing. There’s literally no reasonable good faith charitable interpretation that could possibility be referencing a legitimate criticism. This elevates the quality of communication and is an indication of good faith participation in conversations sincerely directed at cultivating shared understanding.

                • Grapho@lemmy.ml
                  4·
                  2 天前

                  Close, it was invented by literal Nazis and spread by Hollywood and William Randolph Hearst and revived during the 80s by spurious studies done by Harvard in service of rekindling the cold war.

                  I know I should know better than expecting libs to ever read anything other than YA fiction but here it goes anyway. Plenty of citations, very concise.

                  Also, for how much libs rag on about bots you’d think y’all would stop writing like you’re getting paid by the word. Talk like normal people, five dollar words do you no good when you flail them around to hide your cookie cutter views. Only children and redditors think more bigger words=smarter.

            • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
              7·
              2 天前

              If you can explain where the Soviet Union still exists I’d love to know, but to my knowledge it dissolved in the early 90s and thus isn’t a participent.

      • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        12·
        2 天前

        If Russia so wished, they could level Kyiv overnight, they have more than enough weapons to do it.

        i don’t think you realize how big cities are. that’s a lot of bombs.

        and why would they destroy the thing that they are trying to win? how would that make sense

        • CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml
          7·
          2 天前

          how would that make sense

          Ask the media that’s been screeching about a “full scale invasion” since 2022

      • stickly@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 天前

        America nuked Japan twice and they ended up pretty good friends. If Russia could, they would. They don’t want to get pants’ed on the world stage.

        You want to make a lifelong enemy? Renege on 20 peace deals since 2014.

        • Grapho@lemmy.ml
          4·
          2 天前

          The peace deals that Ukraine kept violating from day one (probably by order of the US, given that Israel does the same shit of calling it a ceasefire and insisting only the others actually cease firing). There’s videos of Zelensky going to Azov and telling them to abide by the peace deals and them laughing in his fucking face.

          Here: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/6652 from a fucking hErOiC and uNbiASed source.

          • stickly@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 天前

            I thought the concept of lebensraum was violently debunked nearly 80 years ago but apparently some people didn’t get the memo. Sounds like most of you skipped the lesson on how appeasement turns out too.

            Sovereign state #1 ⚔️

            Sovereign state #2 🛡

            Its pretty morally clear cut when you use your own brain to think about it.

            Yes, a lot of different states get involved in an international conflicts. Its not pretty or squeaky clean, that’s how war works. If you didn’t want that then you should have opposed the decades of aggression from Putin’s Russia, it’s a bit late to get your hackles up now.

            But you do you man, you can whatabout and bothsides all the way to the firing squad. I’ll be rooting for your gold medal in the mental gymnastics event.

            • Grapho@lemmy.ml
              4·
              2 天前

              Learning a few German words and pretending everyone’s a nazi except for the people who hired every Nazi they could find isn’t a substitute for actually reading history and understanding current politics.

              There’s not a single serious analyst claiming Russia is pursuing this war in the interest of land, they have the largest landmass in all of Eurasia, you fucking clown. This war started because of the US coup, states seceded because they didn’t recognize their Washington appointed government as legitimate.

              But you do you man, you can whatabout and bothsides all the way to the firing squad

              Lmao. Tough talk coming from armchair generals as per usual when they’re not busy clutching pearls that the Ukraine military got absolutely dogwalked. Have fun with your oncoming cost of living crisis once the line stops going up because you were too busy frothing at the mouth at whomever the state department pointed you to. Be careful not to get a cold, might end up an indentured servant sooner than that.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
      18·
      3 天前

      They need to have some success to put onto the table and show USA and EU they still can win. Regardless of this “win” being basically terror attack, USA and EU loves them anyway.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
      24·
      3 天前

      Negotiations in Saudi right now. Ukraine probably wants to show they are willing to bomb cities just like Russia if they do not get a good deal.

      • Grapho@lemmy.ml
        14·
        3 天前

        How come when Russia drops bombs it’s a military target (or something meters away from one) but when Ukraine drops bombs it’s always schools, apartments, and shopping malls?

        • alkbch@lemmy.mlEnglish
          47·
          3 天前

          Russia has dropped many bombs on civilians building and infrastructure.

          • Grapho@lemmy.ml
            15·
            2 天前

            https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/08/ukraine-ukrainian-fighting-tactics-endanger-civilians/ again, meters away from military targets.

            Amnesty has to throw its “both sides” shit into it as always but even a propaganda arm of the UK government admits Ukraine has been deliberately firing weapons dangerously close and often within civilian infrastructure. That “hamas uses human shields” nonsense that nobody ever provides proof of? There’s ample proof when it comes to Ukraine (and Israel), it’s the CIA playbook.

            At 22 out of 29 schools visited, Amnesty International researchers either found soldiers using the premises or found evidence of current or prior military activity – including the presence of military fatigues, discarded munitions, army ration packets and military vehicles.

            • FelixMortane@lemmy.caEnglish
              23·
              2 天前

              Maybe read your own article?

              “…In certain other locations in which Amnesty International concluded that Russia had committed war crimes, including in some areas of the city of Kharkiv, the organization did not find evidence of Ukrainian forces located in the civilian areas unlawfully targeted by the Russian military.”

              Using your same source (therefore I assume you accept it as credible) here are a few articles from this year showing Russia as the problem in the conflict, including one specifically calling out the Russia war crimes against civilians (you should particularly pay attention to the link to the report about “deadly Russian airstrikes on civilians”)

              https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/end-war-crimes-against-ukrainians-in-russian-captivity/

              https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/02/ukraine-russia-three-years-since-russias-full-scale-invasion-justice-for-victims-must-be-a-global-priority/

              https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/06/ukraine-deadly-mariupol-theatre-strike-a-clear-war-crime-by-russian-forces-new-investigation/

              • Kinperor@lemmy.caEnglish
                4·
                2 天前

                What is that quote supposed to prove or disprove? No one is implying* that Russia has a perfect scorecard for respecting international treaties.

                The bigger point of this article (that seems to go over your head) is that Ukraine also has a responsibility to prevent civilian casualties, which it has neglected regularly. Furthermore, the drone bombing act seems to have been a massive indiscriminate attack, looking at the images, there’s multiple nonsensical targets such as civilians dwelling and some civilian parking lots. Whyever would any serious military target those? All this does is escalate a bloody conflict that should’ve been diplomatically settled years ago.

              • Grapho@lemmy.ml
                7·
                2 天前

                Maybe understand that Amnesty always has been a tool for manufacturing consent for western intervention, and if they’re criticizing a western ally that means something is horribly wrong with them, but they’re gonna have to fling criticism at the other party any way they can as well.

                I don’t use it because I consider it trustworthy in and of itself, but because you probably do. In the same way you’d probably use a CGTN source to say “even china admits it” or teleSUR to say “even Venezuela admits it” when criticizing either of them.

                • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
                  7·
                  2 天前

                  the same way you’d probably use a CGTN source to say “even china admits it” or teleSUR to say “even Venezuela admits it” when criticizing either of them.

                  Nah, it’s just China bad with infinite Zenz source loops.

                • frozenspinach@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  3·
                  2 天前

                  I don’t use it because I consider it trustworthy in and of itself, but because you probably do

                  Right but the source you cited was literally saying the exact opposite of what you claimed.

        • ChumbleyBumbley@lemm.eeEnglish
          9·
          2 天前

          Please tell me you are being sarcastic.

          If that’s not possible, please check news sources other than RT.

          You are either a troll, a Russian bot, or completely obtuse.

        • stickly@lemmy.world
          10·
          2 天前

          One of these two actors is actively and aggressively siezing strategic territory needed for a sound position in a changing climate. I’ll give you a hint: neither of them give a shit about living in Russia.

          I hope to see this same victim blaming enthusiasm when America invades Canada and Greenland for the same reasons.

          • Grapho@lemmy.ml
            4·
            2 天前

            Nice word salad you got there, but smashing a dozen military sounding buzzwords doesn’t make your sentences coherent, it just makes you look like a dumbass redditor.

            Also “If you’re not critical of military opposition to american interventionism, I hope to see you enthusiastic about American interventionism for the same reasons”. You libs would be funny as hell if I didn’t have to live with the consequences of your racism and idiocy.

        • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          2 天前

          bombing civilian targets yields bigger optics and fatigues the population

          i don’t know that the split in strategy between the two belligerents is as plain as you’re implicating though