Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least 22 people across Ukraine on Tuesday, just hours before Vladimir Putin’s unilateral two-day Victory Day “ceasefire” was due to begin.
Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the “utter cynicism” of launching deadly attacks while seeking a propaganda truce around the 9 May Red Square parade. Strikes hit Poltava, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia.
Ukraine separately struck a residential apartment in Moscow’s expensive Mosfilmovskaya Street district overnight, ten kilometres from the Kremlin, in a clear signal Kyiv could threaten the parade itself.
Russian forces will hold this year’s Victory Day parade without their usual military hardware due to drone fears, with cadets banned from the procession.
Total Russian combat losses since 2022 have now reached 1,337,170. Putin’s Victory Day pageant will look thinner than ever.
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