The Russian non -manned plane arrives at the Ukraine hospital after Putin, Trump accepts the high firefire
London – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that missile and drones attacks during the night launched by Russia showed that Moscow’s support for a high fire in Ukraine is not “real.”
The Ukrainian authorities reported air attacks in several regions of the country, including a drone attack against a hospital in the northeast city of Sumy. The flood occurred hours after Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin agreed to stop at attacks against energy infrastructure as part of the Peace efforts of the White House.
“Now, in many regions, you can literally listen to what Russia really needs,” Zelenskyy wrote in Telegram. “Around 40 Shaheds in our sky, the aerial defense is working,” the president added, referring to the strike drone designed by Iran used by Russia.
“Unfortunately, there are successes, and precisely in civil infrastructure,” Zelenskyy continued. “It is precisely such night attacks by Russia that destroy our energy, our infrastructure, the normal life of the Ukrainians. And the fact that tonight was no exception that we must continue to press in Russia for the good of peace.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, on March 18, 2025, President Donald Trump and the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the Oval Office of the White House, on February 28, 2025.
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The Ukraine Air Force reported a total of six missiles and 145 drones fired to the country during the night. Seventy -two drones were shot down, said the Air Force, with another 56 lost in flight without causing damage. The Sumy, Odessa, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, kyiv and Chernihiv regions were affected by the attack, wrote the Air Force in Telegram.
“Today, Putin really rejected the proposal of a high fire,” Zelenskyy said. “It would be correct for the world to reject any Putin attempt to drag the war in response.”
“Sanctions against Russia. Help Ukraine. Strengthening of allies in the free world and working towards security guarantees,” added the president. “And only a real cessation of Russia of attacks against civil infrastructure as evidence of a desire to end this war can bring peace closer.”
The Kremlin said Tuesday that the call between Trump and Putin was a “detailed and frank opinion.” Putin did not agree with the high 30 -day fire proposed by the United States and Ukraine, according to the Kremlin statement, with the Russian leader again framing any pause in the fight as beneficial for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The two parts accepted the fire of energy infrastructure attacks, said the Kremlin, after which Putin “immediately gave the relevant order to the Russian troops.”
The Ukrainian forces use search reflectors while looking for drones in the sky on kyiv during a Russian unmanned aircraft strike on March 18, 2025.
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Hours later, the Russian authorities reported a drone attack against an oil deposit installation in the southern region of Krasnodar.
“Due to the fall of rubble, there was a fire in the oil deposit,” said the local administration in a statement published on Telegram. “The pipe among the tanks was damaged.”
Local authorities did not report victims, although they added that 30 workers were evacuated from the area and suspended operations.
The telegram channel of the region’s operational headquarters said the fire in the deposit extended to more than 18,000 square feet of size through a leak in a tank. “Emergency services maintain the situation under control,” he said, noting that “179 people and 54 team units are involved in fire extinction.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense said its forces knocked down 57 Ukrainian drones during the night.
The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said that operations were temporarily suspended at airports in the cities of Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Nizhekamsk, although it did not specify the reason. Flights at Russian airports are regularly interrupted during attacks with unmanned aircraft.
Ukrainian police officers, experts and rescuers gather debris of a drone fallen on the outskirts of kyiv on March 18, 2025.
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The White House said Tuesday after the call between Trump and Putin that the two leaders “agreed that the movement towards peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure of high fire, as well as the technical negotiations on the implementation of a high sea fire in the Black Sea, the high fire and permanent peace. These negotiations will begin immediately in the Middle East.”
Trump, in his own publication on social networks later on Tuesday, described the conversation of The Sourslong “very good and productive”.
“We agreed to a high immediate fire in all energy and infrastructure, with the understanding that we will work quickly to have a high fire and, ultimately, the end of this horrible war between Russia and Ukraine,” Trump wrote.
Trump also said that ensuring the 30 -day fire requested by Ukraine “would have been difficult”, in a clip published by a prior interview with Fox News recording.
Alexandra Hutzler and Oleksiy Pshemyskiy of ABC News contributed to this report.
