Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia on Wednesday of violating a ceasefire proposal from Kyiv, saying Russian forces continued attacks across Ukraine with drones, missiles, aerial bombs, shelling and frontline assaults.
In a post on X, Zelenskyy said Russia had launched around 100 attack drones from midnight through the morning, along with dozens of assaults on key frontline directions and dozens of airstrikes.
Zelenskyy said civilian infrastructure was damaged in the Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk and Kherson regions. He also said Russian strikes hit Ukrzaliznytsia locomotives and infrastructure in several regions, and that Ukraine’s energy system remained a repeated Russian target.
Ukraine had proposed a ceasefire beginning at midnight on May 6, Zelenskyy said. He accused Russia of violating that ceasefire regime on Tuesday and Wednesday.
“All of this shows that Russia is not seriously considering a ceasefire,” Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine would answer Russian strikes with what he called “long-range sanctions,” while continuing on a diplomatic path if Russia showed willingness to move toward diplomacy.
In a separate post on X, Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s long-range actions had reached Perm, more than 1,500 kilometers from Ukraine’s border. He also cited what he described as recent results in Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, Novorossiysk, Krymsk, Tuapse, and the Samara and Nizhny Novgorod regions.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s long-range capabilities were reaching distant Russian locations linked to the country’s military-industrial complex, war infrastructure and the financing of its aggression.
“We have repeatedly offered the Russian leadership the option of moving toward peace,” Zelenskyy said. “In response, we have received only new Russian strikes.”
Russia, meanwhile, accused Ukraine of attempting to attack civilian infrastructure in the St. Petersburg area on May 7, according to TASS, citing the Russian Defense Ministry.
The ministry said Russian air defense and intelligence systems detected six UAVs in Latvian airspace at about 3:20 a.m. Moscow time. It also said Russian airspace surveillance systems detected two French Rafale fighter jets and two F-16 fighter jets in Latvian airspace at the same time.
According to TASS, the Russian Defense Ministry said signals from five of the six UAVs disappeared near Rezekne in eastern Latvia. The ministry said the sixth UAV entered Russian airspace and was shot down near Likhachevo, about 78 kilometers southeast of Pskov.
The Russian Defense Ministry said an examination of the wreckage identified the drone as a Ukrainian-made An-196 Lyuty UAV, according to TASS.
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