The attack comes as senior US and Ukrainian officials prepare for critical talks in Saudi Arabia, where Ukraine will present a partial ceasefire proposal.

Ukraine targeted Moscow with dozens of drones in a "massive" overnight attack, the city's mayor said on Tuesday, March 11, with Russia's defense ministry claiming it shot down 337 UAVs across the country.

"The Defense Ministry's air defense continues to repel a massive attack by enemy drones on Moscow," Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram.

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[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago

As I understand, Ukraine is suggesting to the US that a "partial ceasefire" which only covers long-range bombardment of civilian infrastructure/ civilians (which should be off-limits anyway) can be agreed upon. If that's the case, this is probably a move to show that they mean business and that if russia doesn't agree to it, they will ramp up attacks on major cities in russia.

If so, it's a win-win for Ukraine. They haven't been wasting resources on bombing civilians anyway, while they've needed to spend resources to defend against russian attacks on civilians. Hopefully, this can be played such that they show "willingness to negotiate", making the US re-commence weapons shipments, while also (possibly) getting russia to temporarily scale down attacks on civilians.

I say "temporarily" because I'm not under the illusion that russia would actually stop bombing civilians for the duration of the war.