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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If Ukraine actually did this, it’s a beautiful find out stage after Russia has been fucking around for far too long. But the skeptic in me says this is actually a false flag staged to manufacture reasons to deny peace talks and continue to escalate.

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Russia doesn’t need a pretext, they’re winning the war. Meanwhile, the fact that you think terrorist attacks against civilians is a beautiful things says all we need to know about you as a person.

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Theh government started a war with another country. They are at war and people die in war. Want civilians to not die? End the war and go home.

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That’s what yankees are about to do, they’re going to end their proxy war with Russia and go home this year.

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People who don’t understand what Ukraine is doing are priviledged and their culture has never had to fight an oppressor or they won long ago and their people simply forgot what it was like to fight to survive.

My people were invaded, genocided and attempts were made to assimilate us after genocide attempts failed. Our patriots fought back for many years, but ultimately lost. Know what the oppressors called our patriots? The old way of calling your victim a “terrorist” for fighting back: A traitor to the crown (you can guess which nation did this to us now). Our patriots were hung in mass and anyone that believed in the cause and rebelled were also hung. Our patriots had killed many soldiers and civilians in the attempts to free our people from the invading nation. It was unavoidable and a necessary sacrifice to make for the cause in their minds. Today, we have a holiday in their honour, as our people ended up surviving the genocide and assimilation attempts and we didn’t forget their efforts to free us.

Death is part of war and a victim of oppression is allowed to defend themselves from being genocided. The struggles to survive don’t just happen within people’s rose tinted glasses. I’m tired of the priviledged trying to control the narrative of what is “right” or “wrong” for a nation to do in response to being genocided.

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Have you ever considered that Ukraine doesn’t want peace talks to succeed? Agree with it or not, they want their land back. By attacking Russia in its capital heavily right before peace talks, they’re daring Putin to fume about it and end up violating the ceasefire, giving Ukraine the ability to say “We told you so” and ask for more money from the US and EU.

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Why would they want peace talks between Trump and Putin to succeed? That’s like wishing that peace talks between Hitler and Stalin went great.

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i know? that’s what i just said. why are people downvoting me for, like, agreeing with them? this place is just relentless. i might quit

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to the people downvoting me, do you disagree with ANYTHING i said?

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Ukraine attacking civilians is old news. They love crashing their drones into whatever house is nearby when they fail to find a military target.

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Thankfully Russia has taken great care to avoid civilian deaths, which is why we thankfully never have to include it as context.

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👏 a well deserved clap back👏

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Just like 9/11

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Turns out imperialism is bad regardless of it being US or Russian

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Did you respond to the wrong comment?

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will never see their home firebombed

Don’t count those chickens just yet!

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Moat people still don’t connect arming extremists in Afghanistan in the 80s to 9/11. There’s an obvious risk of a bunch of Azov Nazis turning to terrorism against former allies who “stabbed them in the back” here, too.

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Daily Mail (essentially trump/putin media)

i wouldnt be surprised if the russians attacked themselves so they could turn back on their ceasefire and make the ukrainians look like war crazed terrorists.

ill believe it fully when the ukrainians themselves claim the attack on a non biased platform. this is practically a heresay news source from the far right.

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i wouldnt be surprised if the russians attacked themselves

The absolute state of libs. Put down the tinfoil.

Russians are at the same time desperate for a peace deal bc they’re getting decimated but staging an elaborate and incredibly expensive attack to jettison the deal. ??? Boy am I not surprised your ruling class doesn’t respect your intellect enough to pretend they’re not robbing you blind.

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Russians are at the same time desperate for a peace deal bc they’re getting decimated but staging an elaborate and incredibly expensive attack to jettison the deal. ???

they do this tactic in war, super advanced technology. its called a “F.I.B.”…works wonders, its been patented and used by the most horrible of fascist regimes, but its said to have existed for millenia, and its a beautiful weapon, a tremendous weapon, some say, and ive heard them, they call it THE BEST weapon, and it works wonders on people, and nearly half of americans, SO MUCH SO in fact that it helped them (oligarchs, russians, bad actors etc) alter many elections over the years. but most recently in the last US election.

F.I.B.

F eeding. I diots. B ullshit.

theres one cure for it, and its a simple program, but you have to want to do it yourself, and do it constantly, every day. and thats the kicker. but here it goes.

check your sources. look for bias. dont take everything at face value. think critically, question everything, and never stop looking for the truth.

(on this subject specifically, i need more sources and confirmed evidence beyond what comes from the kremlin, the timing is just…too perfect)

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This sort of shit is why I distrust gringos, you bring up the villain of the month and y’all might as well be talking about Voldemort. I get that your education is barely good enough to teach you literacy, but you have to get past processing all politics as villanous caricatures and shining armor heroics.

Grow up.

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I don’t support Putin but that doesn’t mean I blindly dismiss that civilians get harmed in military conflicts. The thrust of your reasoning appears to be “Ukraine is good, Russia is bad, killing civilians is bad, Ukraine killed Russian civilians…DOES NOT COMPUTE…CONTRADICTION…DISMISS THE FACTS”

Like, dude. War is Hell. And it’s never as simple as good guys and bad guys. Sure, Putin is a clear bad guy. But most everything else going on is morally grey. As for the facts of the attack, this was confirmed by AP, the BBC, and CNN. Are you sure the British are Trump/Putin media? What about the AP, which has been barred from the White House over Trump’s “Gulf of America” debacle? There’s no excuses for not simply looking it up. You made this post 35 minutes ago.

EDIT: To be clear, I do oppose Trump, Putin, and the Daily Mail. They are all authoritarian right-wing in ideology if not outright neo-fascist/neo-nationalist/proto-fascist

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im merely dismissing known state propagandist news sources as fact. i need more evidence from unbiased sources to make an educated decision. also timing is sus as hell.

sorry, i just dont blindly believe the first thing i read, especially from sources like the daily mail. the list on why is long, but it ends with a fascist and an oligarch in the oval office, dismantling the US and attacking my country. and they (daily mail, and news sources like them) are partially responsible for this entire mess.

war is hell, but the media motivates it, spins it, justifies it, and in itself, it is a weapon of war. its important to question sources, now more than ever.

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I guess I’m saying you can dismiss the Daily Mail without developing speculative conspiracy theories to explain away its claims. A broken clock is right twice a day. But, yeah. I wish OP had posted a source other than the Mail

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Wow. I’m kinda shocked by this news. Ukraine on the offensive? Why?

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They need to have some success to put onto the table and show USA and EU they still can win. Regardless of this “win” being basically terror attack, USA and EU loves them anyway.

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Negotiations in Saudi right now. Ukraine probably wants to show they are willing to bomb cities just like Russia if they do not get a good deal.

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Likely also to distract from the massive disaster that’s unfolding in Kursk.

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How come when Russia drops bombs it’s a military target (or something meters away from one) but when Ukraine drops bombs it’s always schools, apartments, and shopping malls?

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Didn’t Russia bomb a building with “children” painted in front of it once

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One of these two actors is actively and aggressively siezing strategic territory needed for a sound position in a changing climate. I’ll give you a hint: neither of them give a shit about living in Russia.

I hope to see this same victim blaming enthusiasm when America invades Canada and Greenland for the same reasons.

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Please tell me you are being sarcastic.

If that’s not possible, please check news sources other than RT.

You are either a troll, a Russian bot, or completely obtuse.

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Russia just killed six people, including two children in Donetsk yesterday.

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bombing civilian targets yields bigger optics and fatigues the population

i don’t know that the split in strategy between the two belligerents is as plain as you’re implicating though

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Russia has dropped many bombs on civilians building and infrastructure.

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Let’s not pretend as if anyone here can know the real answer to that. But… Kyiv has been attacked with terror attacks since the start of this war, so why not Moscow? Perhaps it might bring some sense to the russian people who are currently complete sheeps when it comes to their leadership.

Unfortunately(?) attacks against civilians rarely work in lowering morale.

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At this point, even if not great, I’m not actually entirely against Hamas doing that.

But again, the same thing applies to attacks against civilians. It rarely works in any strategic sense.

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They’re not on an offensive, they’re just sending drones to attack civilian infrastructure to distract from their collapse in Kursk https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/03/11/retreat-ukrainian-brigades-appear-to-be-leaving-kursk/

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Every time Ukraine suffers a big military loss, they start doing massive attacks on civilians to distract from that. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/03/11/retreat-ukrainian-brigades-appear-to-be-leaving-kursk/

edit: I guess basic facts of the situation makes people who’ve been guzzling propaganda for the past three years very upset

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Every time Russia suffers a big military loss, they start doing massive attacks on civilians to distract from that.

FTFY

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You mean… both of them do it?

Wow, the power of truth!

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Last I checked it’s AFU that’s getting routed in Kursk. Of course, nobody should expect people who weren’t able to engage with the facts for the past three years to start doing that now.

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Uh-huh, Russia blows up its own civilian populations just like it blows up its own gas pipelines.

Deeply unserious cope.

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its own

I’m trying my best to follow but where did “its own” come from here?

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More correct is just “Russia is attacking civilians”

If Ukraine ran out of civilians they would start attacking civilians in another country

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Sometimes I wonder how the fuck we as the world have been getting all of our shit stolen by people this delusional.

You’re a fucking hair away from being a nazi ragging on about how immigrants are gonna come in and assault everybody and then move elsewhere when they’re done, look in the mirror a little jfc. Hell, you’re already using their asiatic horde script.

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They kill their own citizens to hide military losses? You gotta be insane to believe this 😂

But i guess you also believe Russia destroyed their own infrastructure.

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You don’t think a country like Russia would kill a few of their civilians in a false flag attack to win a war? Look up and read about any of the major false flag attacks throughout history, consider Russia has a deep history of genocide against their own population, and look up how many Ukrainian civilians have been killed by Russia in the last 8 years

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basic facts of the situation

I think it’s more the selective emphasis than the ‘basic facts’.

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if you were capable of thinking you wouldn’t be making these vapid comments here

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Something tells me you’ve never said that about people cherrypicking information that’s beneficial to Ukraine.

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Regardless of the truth of that statement, do you contradict the many, many Russian drone and missile attacks against Ukrainian civilian targets? I’m curious if the condemnation for violence against non-combatants goes both ways.

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Russia does hit civilian targets as well, however the difference is that Ukraine does this intentionally and systemically. Meanwhile, Ukraine is also known to use civilians as human shields for its army. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/04/ukraine-civilians-army-bases-amnesty-russia-war

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The human shield argument has never really passed the smell test for me, especially when used as condemnation against Palestinians. It’s very difficult to defend against the invasion of a civilian area without occupying said civilian area. Existing military infrastructure typically doesn’t exist at the scale a frontline needs in invaded territory. Strikes targeted specifically against civilians are obviously unacceptable and immoral regardless of perpetrator.

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Please do little fash.

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