The head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasyl Malyuk, said a day after the strike that 41 enemy aircraft were destroyed. Other assessments, however, including one by BBC News Ukraine, tallied a more modest number, upward of 11 destroyed jets.

Ukraine has maintained support in Europe, but it’s facing pressure from President Donald Trump to end the war — including during a hostile meeting with Zelenskyy that Trump deemed “great television.” A first-person view of a fiery strike on Russia, though, is far more eye-catching.

After too many nights of pulling children from the rubble of Russian drone strikes, the weekend’s devastating attacks on Moscow’s military pride mark a brief respite for Ukrainian morale, and yet another twist of the unexpected.

A day after Ukraine launched an unprecedented drone attack on airbases inside Russia, the warring sides sat down for a second round of direct talks in Turkey.

The drone strikes on Russian air force bases weaken Moscow’s ability to wage war on its neighbor and undermine its capacity to threaten more distant rivals.

It was already hard to imagine a breakthrough emerging from the direct talks between Russia and Ukraine set to be renewed in Istanbul on Monday.

Officials from Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul on Monday failed to reach a ceasefire but agreed to exchange more prisoners.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Defense Minister Rustem Umerov would sit down with Russian officials at the second round of peace talks on Monday.

Russian media publishes Moscow's official peace demands 34% of Russian strategic Russian bombers at main airfields damaged in Ukrainian drone operation, SBU reports Over 160 Ukrainian drones downed across Russia,