Russia hammers Ukraine with huge drone attack hours after Putin-Trump call – POLITICO Europe
Kremlin forces also shelled residential buildings in Kherson. Russia attacked Ukraine with 140 drones overnight, shortly after Wednesday evening’s call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin.“On the night of February 13, 2025 the enemy attacked with 140 Shahed-type kamikaze drones,” the Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement Thursday, adding that they managed to shoot down 85.“As a result of the enemy attack, Odesa region and Kharkiv region were affected,” the air force added.In addition to the drone attack, Russian forces shelled residential buildings in the city of Kherson, injuring two people, and carried out 10 aerial strikes on communities in the front-line region of Zaporizhzhia, the regional administrations announced Thursday.Trump said Wednesday that he had a “lengthy and highly productive phone call” with Putin on Wednesday morning, in which he confirmed they agreed to work together on a diplomatic resolution to the war in Ukraine.Following the call with Putin, Trump said he had spoken to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to inform him about the conversation. “He, like President Putin, wants to make PEACE,” Trump said.“Any deal behind our backs will not work,” writes Kaja Kallas as U.S. president imparts “lengthy and highly productive” call with Russian leader.“The position of Brussels — to support killing as long as it takes — is morally and politically unacceptable,” Hungary’s leader says.A truce on a 2018 trade dispute on steel and aluminum between Brussels and Washington is set to lapse at the end of March. The globalization of the illicit narcotics trade is hampering investigators — but Brussels needs to score some quick societal wins, says Belgium’s drug commissioner after wave of shootings.
