Russia has been bombarded in the biggest Ukrainian drone attack of the war, Moscow officials have said, on the same day as crunch talks are set to be held between Kyiv and the United States.

The Russian Defence Ministry said air defences shot down 337 Ukrainian drones over 10 Russian regions overnight, a record high, as Ukraine hit back at a series of brutal recent attacks launched by Moscow.

At least one Russian civilian has been killed and several injured, with dramatic footage showing fires raging from the exploding drones including in high rise residential buildings near Moscow.

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    They committed a war crime. Take a moment to look at the photo gallery, they bombed civilian cars, civilian apartment complex, single family housing.

    And they are doing this on the eve of a potential ceasefire. This is not “sad”, it’s malicious and counterproductive. This kind of attack does nothing to improve the balance of power of Ukraine, it’s essentially state terrorism.

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        Ukraine is torpedo’ing their own ceasefire offer by doing an indiscriminate drone attack (a war crime), and the first thing you think is “buh in my brain Putin would break tuh ceasefuhre uhnyways” ?

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          And how many war crime has Russia commited by indiscriminately bombing ukrainian civilians? So many you can’t even count them anymore. You don’t seem really bothered by the Russian war crimes. Strange.

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          That’s right numbnuts, Vlad already broke 20 ceasefires agreements before launching a full-scale invasion. Another thing, one should not trust the fucking Russians with anything. Currently, there are reports, he is positioning more troops along the Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Polish borders.

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        They tried, for 8 years. The West collectively said “nah, fuck you and your peace deals” and continued to bomb Donbas.

        Now y’all are celebrating war crimes with the one hand and clutching your pearls that Russia hits back at military equipment fired from within hospitals (another fucking war crime from Ukraine) with the other.

        I hope the upcoming burst of the bubble puts the west down for real, I can’t believe people like you are voting for the people in charge of the biggest military apparatus in human history.

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          Russia tried not attacking Ukraine for 8 years and then just had to do it? That does sound very Russian.

          Friend, you’re clutching your pearls over a single attack but Russian invasion has caused tens of thousands of civilian deaths. Give me a break.

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            I know “no u” is the end all be all of lib argument, but I’m not clutching my pearls at anything. Russia is winning and Ukraine needs this peace deal, and politicians there are gonna have to acknowledge what the population wants soon or mass desertions are gonna be the least of their problems.

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              I’m sure there’s an argument relevant to the topic in your comment somewhere, I’m just not seeing it.

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          Ah yes, it was the West that made Russia attack. I wish Russia was a sovereign country that didn’t have to obey what West (apparently) tell it to do.

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            They are a sovereign country, a sovereign country that stated red lines in regard to their territorial security. The West knowingly provoked Russia by posturing that Ukraine would join NATO.

            This is exactly the same reaction the US would have if the scenario was flipped (as stated in the Monroe doctrine). It is hugely hypocritical of the previous administration to pretend that Russia is in the wrong for wanting to secure their border.

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              Ah yes they needed to invade an another country because they felt threatened. Well I’m glad there was a justified reason for it at least.

              This is exactly the same reaction the US would have if the scenario was flipped

              And would you have been fine with it then, as you seem to be now? Because I sure as hell wouldn’t (and haven’t) been.