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Russia has continued to intensify its strikes against Ukraine as the Trump administration assures it’s getting nearer to a ceasefire deal, a new report reveals. 

According to an analysis from the Institute for the Study of War, the Kremlin has ramped up its drone and missile strikes on Ukraine throughout the yr, including most lately in a single day on Dec. 26 to 27.

Ahead of the 2025-2026 winter, the Kremlin has reportedly elevated its concentrating on of Ukraine’s vitality infrastructure.

In January, a graphic supplied by the institute confirmed that Russia kicked off the yr, averaging over 100 drone strikes each day. The assaults noticed a peak in September, when more than 800 drone assaults on Ukraine have been seen in a single day.

Interestingly, as the U.S. talks with Ukraine and Russia to end the battle took a more sturdy form in mid-December, most days noticed a lower in assaults, with around 100 drone strikes occurring per day. However, it wasn’t until current days, as the month and yr got here to an end, that Russia once again resumed the strikes, with over 650 and 550 strikes going down in two separate days.

On Dec. 27, the day Ukraine acquired more than 550 strikes, at least one individual was killed, and 27 more have been wounded.

The Russian Defense Ministry also confirmed the “massive strike” in a single day, saying it used “long-range precision-guided weapons from land, air, and sea, including Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles” and drones.

That assault began in the early morning and noticed explosions across Kyiv, bringing consideration to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was on his manner to Florida to meet with President Trump at his exclusive Mar-a-Lago membership.

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“This attack is Russia’s answer to our peace efforts. It really shows that Putin doesn’t want peace,” Zelensky said.

The elevated strikes come as the Kremlin alleges that Ukrainian drones focused Putin’s residence on the night time of Dec. 28 and 29. The Ministry of Defense said that it downed 41 drones over Novgorod Oblast in a single day. However, it has supplied no evidence of the tried assaults and rejected the notion that it ought to present said evidence.

The continued combating also comes as Zelensky and Trump met over the weekend to talk about the revised 20-point peace plan, signaling that “we’re getting a lot closer” to locking down an settlement and ending the battle.

For his half, after the bilateral discussions, Zelensky said that the nations have been “90 percent” agreed upon, though that was the same determine he cited prior to the negotiations.

Regardless of the quantity of recorded assaults and the elevated violence in Ukraine, Trump appears to be standing up for Putin, asserting during a press convention after his assembly with the Ukrainian president that the Russian autocrat is prepared for peace in the area.

“Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed,” Trump told reporters. “It sounds a little strange, but President Putin was very generous in his feelings toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity, and other things at very low prices.”