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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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Lets fucking go, take it out Russia needs to fear Ukraine. Maybe if they can take out Putin then this war can end.

[–] isar@lemm.ee 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Well the war seems to have boosted Putin’s approval rates in Russia, but then they’re not the ones whose people and infrastructure keeps being bombarded every single day for the last 3 years. So if they’re getting a similar treatment let’s hope the Russian “public” starts pushing their gov for reasonable negotiations, because Ukraine made it clear that they will not accept the “deal” they’re being proposed. On another note, whatever happened to the “Ukraine will be crippled by losing US intelligence” narrative? If they were retreating they wouldn’t launch attacks towards Moscow.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 12 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I have a feeling the French stepped up behind the scenes. There was a successful AS launch of a French spysat just a week ago, and I expect most non-orbital SIGINT stuff is just NATO, not the US.

Trump seems to be holding less cards than he thought.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

France has Helios, Germany SAR-Lupe (with the successor SARah in partial operation), Italy, COSMO-Skymed. The systems are integrated, I wouldn't be surprised if Ukraine has pretty much full access. Has had, for ages.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 12 points 17 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.