Russia Ukraine war: Vladimir Putin is planning big attack against Ukraine to avenge Sunday's drone strikes, claims Donald Trump

Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning to respond to Ukraine’s Sunday drone attack on Russian airfields. Putin told Donald Trump in a telephone conversation on Wednesday that Moscow would have to respond to the recent Ukrainian drone attacks, the U.S. President said.

Trump said the two men "discussed the attack on Russia’s docked airplanes, by Ukraine, and also various other attacks that have been taking place by both sides." Putin "did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields," Trump said in a social media post.

Moscow said earlier on Wednesday that military options were "on the table" for its response to Ukrainian attacks deep inside Russia and accused the West of being involved in them.


Russia also urged the U.S. and Britain to restrain Kyiv after the attacks, which Ukrainian officials have lauded as showing Kyiv can still fight back after more than three years of war.

British and U.S. officials have said they had no prior knowledge of the weekend attacks on Russian nuclear-capable long-range bombers.

Earlier Ukrainian authorities said Sunday's attack on the airfields using 117 drones hit 41 military aircraft. The SBU said in a statement that the aircraft struck included the A-50, the Tu-95 strategic bomber, the Tu-22M3 supersonic jet bomber, the Tu-160 strategic bomber, as well as the An-12 and Il-78 military cargo planes.

Some of those military aircraft are part of Russia's airborne nuclear deterrent, but can also be armed with cruise missiles that Russia has used to pound targets in Ukraine since its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

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