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Municipal workers cleanable up astir burnt cars successful the residential country pursuing Russia's drone onslaught successful Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said successful comments broadcast Sunday that the request to usage atomic weapons successful Ukraine had not arisen and that helium hopes it volition not.
In a preview of an upcoming interrogation with Russian authorities television, published connected Telegram, Putin said Russia has the spot and the means to bring the struggle successful Ukraine to a “logical conclusion.”
Responding to a question astir Ukrainian strikes connected Russian territory, Putin said: “There has been nary request to usage those (nuclear) weapons ... and I anticipation they volition not beryllium required.”
“We person capable spot and means to bring what was started successful 2022 to a logical decision with the result Russia requires,” helium said.
Putin signed a revamped mentation of Russia’s nuclear doctrine successful November 2024, spelling retired the circumstances that let him to usage Moscow’s atomic arsenal, the world’s largest.
That mentation lowered the bar, giving him that enactment successful effect to adjacent a accepted onslaught backed by a atomic power.
Russia and Ukraine are astatine likelihood implicit competing ceasefire proposals.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday, successful comments made nationalist Saturday, that Moscow’s announcement of a 72-hour ceasefire adjacent week successful Ukraine to people Victory Day successful World War II is simply an effort to make a “soft atmosphere” up of Russia’s yearly celebrations.
Zelenskyy alternatively renewed calls for a much important 30-day intermission successful hostilities, arsenic the U.S. had initially proposed. He said the projected ceasefire could commencement anytime arsenic a meaningful measurement toward ending the war.
Putin connected Monday declared a unilateral 72-hour ceasefire successful Ukraine to people Victory Day successful World War II arsenic the U.S. presses for a woody to extremity the 3-year-old war. The Kremlin said the truce, ordered connected “humanitarian grounds,” volition tally from the commencement of May 8 and past done the extremity of May 10 to people Moscow’s decision of Nazi Germany successful 1945 — Russia’s biggest secular holiday.
Meanwhile, 11 radical were wounded successful a Russian drone onslaught overnight connected the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said Sunday. Two children were among the wounded.
Russia fired a full of 165 exploding drones and decoys overnight, Ukraine’s aerial unit said. Of those, 69 were intercepted and a further 80 lost, apt having been electronically jammed. Russia besides launched 2 ballistic missiles.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its aerial defenses changeable down 13 Ukrainian drones overnight.
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