The airline was suspended on Thursday about Moscow due to Ukrainian attacks with marches, while Russian forces penetrated the Ukrainian lines in Donetsk, while the two parties are preparing to exchange a thousand prisoners from each side.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the objection of about 100 drones, including 35 as it approached the capital.
For his part, the Moscow mayor Sergey Sobianin wrote on the Telegram platform that “relief devices operate in sites where parts of wreck fell.”
The Ukrainian army regularly launches marches loaded with explosives towards Russian territory in response to Russian strikes targeting its lands daily for more than 3 years, but Moscow is rarely bombed.
Thursdays were suspended in several airports in the Russian capital on Thursday, according to the Russian Civil Aviation Agency, including the main Shermtitivo International Airport, as well as Fanoukovo, Dumodidovo and Jokovsky airports.
In field developments as well, Russia said it launched a “Alexander-M” missile at a part of the city of Boukrov in the Ukrainian Dnipropters, which destroyed two Patriot and Radar missile systems.
The Ukrainian Air Force stated that damage occurred in the Dnipropterrovs area after an attack, but it did not specify the type of weapon used.
The Ministry of Defense said that the Russian forces are advancing at major points on the front, and bloggers of the war said that Russia had penetrated the Ukrainian lines between Boukerrovsk and Costynetinvka in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski said in his night video that the fiercest battles on the front lines revolve around Boukerrovsk, and he did not refer to any Russian progress.
Prisoner exchange
On the other hand, an Ukrainian military intelligence official told Reuters on Thursday that Ukraine presented a list of a thousand prisoners of war to Russia in preparation for a great exchanging exchange.
On May 15 and 16, Istanbul hosted peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, which ended with an agreement to exchange two thousand prisoners between the two countries.
Zelinski said he chaired a meeting with senior security and intelligence officials in preparation for the exchange.
On the other hand, the Russian news agency Interfax reported, quoting the Kremlin yesterday that Russia handed Ukraine a list of a thousand prisoners of war that wanted to recover in the exchange deal.
The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said the Kremlin is waiting for Ukraine to hand its prisoners’ list.
Decisions about the border
In another context, a Ukrainian news website quoted the former military commander Valerie Zalujni on Thursday that Ukraine should abandon any idea to restore its borders that were established with the collapse of the Soviet rule in 1991 or even those that belong to the beginning of the Russian war in 2022.
Zalujni, who is now the office of Ukraine’s ambassador in London, was the commander of his country’s armed forces until February 2024. He was exempted from his military position months after reports that remained indicating differences between him and President Voludmir Zellinski.
Zelinski and other figures have always called for the expulsion of Russian forces and the return to the borders of the post -Soviet Union in 1991, including the Crimean Peninsula that Russia illegally included in 2014.
“I hope that there will be no people in this hall who still hope to make a miracle that brings peace to Ukraine and the borders of 1991 or 2022,” the RPK news website quoted Zalujni as saying to a forum in Kiev.
For his part, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced, during a meeting with members of his government in the capital, Moscow, that his country’s forces intend to establish a buffer zone along the border with Ukraine.
He pointed out that the regions of Breansk, Kursk and Bilgorod (western Russia) are the most affected by Ukrainian attacks. Putin confirmed that the Russian army is working to ensure security on the border.
Since February 24, 2022, Russia has launched a military attack on its neighbor, Ukraine, and requires that to end it, Kiev abandons joining Western military entities, which Kiev is an interference in its affairs.
