Russia strikes Ukraine for third straight night, Trump reacts with sanctions threat

Russia has attacked Ukraine for a third night in a row, Ukrainian regional officials and emergency services said, a day after the war’s biggest aerial attack, which so far killed at least 12 people and drew both condemnation from U.S. President Donald Trump and criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Monday’s air raid alert lasted six hours in Kyiv, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city’s military administration, said.

Tkachenko reported damage in one city district but said that there were no casualties.

There was no comment from Russia on the attacks. The Kremlin says it is conducting a “special military operation” in Ukraine.

The surrounding Kyiv region was under a combined drone and missile attack, according to the region’s military administration.

Meanwhile, Russia’s defence ministry said on Monday that air defence systems had downed 96 Ukrainian drones, including six over the Moscow region.

Moscow’s Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports temporarily halted flights, Russia’s aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia said.

President Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin had “gone absolutely CRAZY” by unleashing the largest aerial attack of the war on Ukraine and said he was considering more sanctions on Moscow, but he also scolded Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

“Something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY!” Trump said of the Russian president on Truth Social.

“I’ve always said that he wants ALL of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that’s proving to be right, but if he does, it will lead to the downfall of Russia!”

Trump also criticised Zelenskiy, posting that the Ukrainian leader “is doing his Country no favours by talking the way he does. Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don’t like it, and it better stop.”

Speaking to reporters at the airport in Morristown, New Jersey, Trump said of Putin: “I don’t know what’s wrong with him. What the hell happened to him? Right? He’s killing a lot of people. I’m not happy about that.”

He raised the possibility of imposing more sanctions on Russia in response to the ongoing attacks.

In the biggest aerial assault of the war, Russia pummeled Ukrainian cities and other targets with at least 367 drones and missiles overnight on Sunday, killing at least 12 people, including three children in the northern region of Zhytomyr, Ukrainian officials said.

The Russian attack was the largest of the war in terms of weapons fired, although other strikes have killed more people.

Trump has been pressuring Russia and Ukraine to end the more than three-year war, but the two sides remain far apart – and while major powers talk, the war keeps intensifying.