Important Takeaways:
- Ukraine reportedly launched at least 337 drones into Russia on Tuesday in the largest-yet drone attack of the Moscow-Kyiv conflict, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
- It came just before US and Ukrainian delegations were scheduled to meet for negotiation discussions in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday.
- Russia set the previous drone-attack record a little over two weeks ago, when it launched 267 drones at Ukraine in a single night on Feb. 23.
- Ukrainian officials have yet to comment on the Russian report.
- If true, it could represent a show of strength by Kyiv ahead of its talks with the US in Saudi Arabia.
- Ukrainians have been losing significant ground in the region over the past week, losses that experts say were hastened by the US decision to halt intelligence sharing.
- Another 91 were downed in the Moscow region, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said more than 70 drones were taken down en route to the Russian capital.
- It comes after Russia has upped its missile and drone attacks on Ukraine since Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous Oval Office meeting with President Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Feb. 28.
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