Zelensky Vows Vengeance After Putin's Kamikaze Drone Deluge

Volodymyr Zelensky pledged to clip the wings of Russia’s air power after revealing that Moscow has launched more than 30 “kamikaze” drone attacks on Ukraine in the past two days.

- Tom Davidson

Since February, Moscow has carried out nearly 4,500 missile strikes and over 8,000 air raids, the president said in his nighttime address.

Standing next to what appeared to be a downed Iranian Shahed drone, Mr Zelensky pledged to “clip the wings” of Moscow’s air power.

Officials in the US and UK believe Iran has supplied a large number of drones to Russia, but Moscow and Tehran deny it. Kyiv has identified the drones used in some attacks on its infrastructure as Iranian Shahed-136 drones. They are known as kamikaze drones because they are destroyed in the attack. US secretary of state Antony Blinken called Russia’s aggressive use of drones “appalling”.