Ukraine and Russia are exchanged attacks hours before the truce decreed by Putin

Ukraine and Russia exchanged attacks with missiles and drones, a few hours before the beginning midnight on Wednesday of the three -day unilateral truce declared by Vladimir Putin on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of Victory Day.

Moscow used in his attack on Tuesday night to Wednesday against Ukraine, who killed A mother and her son In kyiv, a total of four ballistic missiles and 142 droneshalf of them Iranian devices Shahed, according to Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski in his X account at that same time, new walks of Ukrainian drones flew over Russian airspace For the third consecutive day, which caused new chaos scenes in airports.

In this war environment the arrival in Moscow continues from the foreign leaders Invited by Putin to witness Friday’s military parade in the Red Square. The preparations for the appointment coincide with the entry into force of the unilateral truce decreed by the Russian president with the alleged intention of preventing a bombing from ruining the phase to remember the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany on May 9, 1945, which ended World War II.

According to Ukrainian Telegram channels, the Base Aerea Rus de Kubinka He suffered several impacts and unleashed fires. This aerodrome, according to the media of the former Soviet republic, are deployed with combat aircraft and bombers for its permanent employment in the invaded country. It also houses the group of pilots who will participate in the air exhibition In the Red Square. In Tula, according to kyiv, the drones reached a factor of the Russian industrial military complex where they are manufactured Grad and Uragán rocket launches. In Saransk, the capital of the Mordovia region, classes were suspended in all educational centers and damages were also recorded in two fiber optic production companies for military use, specifically, for the manufacture of drones.

Chaos in airports

At the same time, the chaos that began on Tuesday at the airports of Russia increased on Wednesday with huge delays and cancellation of more than 300 flights. Many Russians usually take advantage of May 1st and Victory Fiestas to take vacations and travel, but now they remain trapped in the terminals of the main Moscow airfields.

To make matters worse and for security reasons, in more than thirty cities, Moscow included, has stopped workingr Internet on mobile phones. According to sources consulted by the Russian Telegram Channel, in Moscow, they assume that Ukraine It will not join the truceas Zelenski already hinted, so that the bombings will foreseeably continue these days. The same medium ensures that the Russian army could Locate the powerful medium -range missile Orshnik to attack the Ukrainian capital as retaliation.

Putin met on Wednesday with his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduroto sign a great agreement of “strategic association.” A meeting with the Cuban president is also planned, Miguel Díaz-Canelwho will also be Friday with the top Russian leader in the Red Square to see the parade. The main course of the Kremlin chief conversations with his foreign guests will take place on Thursday, when he will receive his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. And there will be many more meetings, with the Serbian leaders, Aleksandar Vucicand stubborn, Robert I amamong others.

New operation about Kursk

Meanwhile, intense fighting continue along the border in northeastern Ukraine, where kyiv has launched a New cross -border assault Against the Russian region of Kursk nine months after the start of its surprise offensive, while the growing attacks of Russia with aviation and artillery cause evacuations in the Ukrainian province of Sumi.

The active combat zone has spread in several locations in the Glushkovo district of Kursk, after several hundred Ukrainian soldiers cross the night from Sunday to Monday the border near Tetkino and Novi Put, according to Russian military correspondents and foreign military analysts. They used Dismination equipment To help their infantry to cross the fields of Russian Mines, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), based in the United States. Until now The scope of its progress is unknown, And urban war continues in Tetkino.

However, Ukraine continues to isolate the Russian forces in the area attacking the Bridges that cross the Seim river and other elements of Russian military infrastructure. kyiv has not commented on his new operation. However, the army said that an attack against Russian Drones school in Tetkino killed about 20 enemy soldiers on Sunday night, on the eve of the operation. And aviation has continued to attack Russian defenses in Tetkino, according to a video posted Tuesday by Sonyashnyk, a telegram channel linked to kyiv’s air forces.

Undermine the Russian offensive in Sumi

According to Sergey Zguretsdirector of the military consultant Defense Expressthe new operation could have as its objective to undermine the Russian assaults ongoing Within the Ukrainian region of Sumi, about 25 kilometers away, on the other side of the border.

Russia currently controls four villages in the region and is trying to establish itself in Yunakivka, located on an important road that connects the regional capital of Sumi with Kursk. According to the border guard service of Ukraine, Russia attacks with small assault groups that use buggies and motorcycles to move quickly and avoid Ukrainian drones.

Russia has also intensified aviation and artillery attacks against two communities close to the border with Kursk that only on Monday caused five dead and eight injured According to the head of the Regional Administration, Oleg Grigorov.

The authorities have requested the Evacuation of about 6,800 inhabitants. Until Tuesday, about 425 had abandoned their homes.

Russian plans to

The new Ukraine attack could also aim prevent Russia from sending more forces from Kursk to the front line in the east From Ukraine, Zgurets writes in the Ukrainian environment Espresso.

An enemy of greatest spread can be defeated with “unconventional measures,” the Commander in Chief of the Ukrainian Army said Monday, Oleksandr Syrianexactly nine months after the start of the Ukrainian offensive in Russian territory.

«Kursk’s operation was precisely that. It was a surprise for the enemy. Ukraine showed that he is capable of counterattacing, winning and away from the enemy, also in his own territory, ”he said, and pointed out that the operation has achieved” most of its objectives. “

“We managed to prevent the offensive of the enemy in the regions of Sumi and Járkov,” he wrote in Telegram, where he said that the buffer zone that created in Russian territory is still relevant.

Ukraine still maintains about 17 square kilometers near Guyevo and Oshnia in Kursk, despite Moscow prior statements of having completely expelled Kursk’s Ukrainian troops.

Ukraine is likely to set similar operations in other parts of the Russian territory, according to analysts. «It is always better to fight combat in enemy territory, To limit destruction to the Ukrainian terrain, ”he told Efe Oreksandr Kovalenko, of the resistance information group.