{"id":1537996,"date":"2025-05-25T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1537996"},"modified":"2025-05-25T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T19:05:00","slug":"ukraine-tried-to-attack-putins-helicopter-mid-flight-russia-alleges-responds-with-massive-strikes-on-kiev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/ukraine-tried-to-attack-putins-helicopter-mid-flight-russia-alleges-responds-with-massive-strikes-on-kiev\/1537996\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Tried To Attack Putin\u2019s Helicopter Mid-Flight, Russia Alleges, Responds With Massive Strikes On Kiev"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine Tried To Attack Putin\u2019s Helicopter Mid-Flight, Russia Alleges, Responds With Massive Strikes On Kiev<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Kremlin as well as Russian state media are alleging a huge, potentially conflict-altering incident which will surely escalate the war in Ukraine – an attempted attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin himself<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A high-ranking Russian military commander on Sunday described that last week, as Putin traveled to the Kursk region for the first time since is liberation after 6+ months of Ukrainian occupation, Ukraine tried to attack Putin’s helicopter mid-flight<\/strong>, sending a wave of drones to swarm the flight path of the chopper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The presidential helicopter was caught in the “epicenter”\u00a0of a massive Ukrainian drone attack<\/strong>, commander of an air defense division in Kursk,\u00a0Yury Dashkin, told Russian media. The headline is the top featured story of English-language RT<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday, something which suggests the allegations are largely aimed at grabbing the attention of the West.<\/p>\n

Illustrative file image, Kremlin.ru via Reuters<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The incident is said to have happened Tuesday as the helicopter transported Putin to tour Kursk – a southern oblast which has suffered much destruction since the initial Ukrainian cross-border incursion of last August.<\/p>\n

Commander Yury Dashkin told Russia 1<\/em>\u00a0in an interview which aired Sunday said that Putin\u2019s helicopter had found itself “in the epicenter of an operation to repel a massive drone attack by the enemy”<\/strong>\u00a0in Kursk Region.<\/p>\n

He went on to describe that this “unprecedented” attack was successfully repelled by anti-air defenses in the region. Air defense units in the area had to “simultaneously conduct anti-aircraft combat and ensure the safety of the president\u2019s helicopter in the air. The task was accomplished,” Dashkin stated.\u00a0“The attack of the enemy drones was repelled<\/strong>, with all aerial targets being hit.”<\/p>\n

While this could just be a mid-level officer’s attempt to toot his own horn, given the world is just hearing about what’s tantamount to an ‘assassination attempt’ on one of the world’s most powerful leaders being alleged – and coming belatedly a number of days after the incident in question – this seems part of Moscow’s ongoing messaging that the UAV incursions are an attempt to derail the US-brokered peace talks between Moscow and Kiev<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The drones are being launched on Russia in record numbers<\/strong>, with literally multiple hundreds sent over the past week, in some cases halting inbound and outbound flights at major airports<\/a>, including in the Moscow area. Ukrainian officials have boasted that the operations is trying to disrupt and destabilize daily life<\/a> in Russia, in hopes that the government could lose control.<\/p>\n

A major new allegation coming from Russia’s military:<\/em><\/p>\n

Ukraine tried to ATTACK Putin\u2019s helicopter mid-flight over Kursk<\/p>\n

Russian Air Defense Division officer says Ukrainian drones attempted to swarm chopper flight path<\/p>\n

Russian air defenses scrambled \u2014 worked perfectly and repelled the strike pic.twitter.com\/BDmmrLMyvU<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 RT (@RT_com) May 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Significantly, Russia’s military pummeled the Ukrainian capital of Kiev again overnight<\/strong>, with emerging images showing raging fires and devastation in city neighborhoods and populated areas. Other regions were hit as well, in a second straight night of some of the largest strikes of the war<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There were significant casualties. According to Ukrainian emergency authorities, cited in national media<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Russia attacked Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions with drones and missiles overnight on May 25, killing 12 people, including three children, and injuring more than 60<\/strong>, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Telegram.<\/em><\/p>\n

Russia launched 69 missiles overnight and 298 drones, according to Ukraine’s Air Force.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Air Force\u00a0reported that 45 cruise missiles were shot down\u00a0by air defense and 266 drones were neutralized, while 22 locations recorded a direct strike.<\/em><\/p>\n

The attacks come one night after one of the\u00a0heaviest Russian assaults\u00a0on\u00a0Kyiv\u00a0throughout the full-scale war<\/strong>. The attack also coincides with Kyiv Day, a city holiday typically celebrated on the last Sunday in May.<\/em><\/p>\n

Zelensky after Russia\u2019s massive overnight attack:<\/p>\n

“Almost 300 Shahed drones and 70 missiles hit Ukrainian cities\u2014Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Odesa, Khmelnytskyi, and more. Homes, dorms, businesses destroyed. Children killed.<\/p>\n

Every strike is reason for tougher sanctions. Silence only\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/4k08CM3zM9<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NOELREPORTS \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@NOELreports) May 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

US media outlet NPR also acknowledges<\/a> that “The scale of the onslaught was stunning<\/strong> \u2014 Russia hit Ukraine with 367 drones and missiles, making this the largest single attack of the more than three-years-long war.”<\/p>\n

The attack featured heavy use of Iranian-designed Shahed drones, Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Air Force, said. It was “the most massive strike in terms of the number of air attack weapons on the territory of Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022,” Ihnat emphasized.<\/p>\n

Given the sizeable death toll and casualties, this is sure to get Washington and Europe’s attention, at a moment the Trump administration has been losing patience with both sides over lack of progress in attempted peace negotiations, the last round which was held in Istanbul just over a week ago. Washington is still threatening more anti-Moscow sanctions, a move which would likely terminate the peace negotiation process<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

AP\/Ukrainian Emergency Service<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

By all appearances, Putin is actually ready to expand the ground operation<\/strong> inside Ukraine, in part to establish a ‘buffer zone’ in order to better defend the constant drone attacks coming out of Ukraine on Russian territory.<\/p>\n

Russian troops at the same time continue advancing slowly on the eastern front in Donbass, having reportedly captured two settlements in Donetsk region as well as one in Ukraine’s northern region of Sumy, according to a Saturday Russian Defense Ministry statement.<\/p>\n

Reuters cites<\/a> the statement as saying Russian forces had “captured the village of Stupochky in Donetsk region, east of Kostiantynivka, a town under recent Russian pressure.” It also named the villags of Otradne and Loknya, the latter which is inside the Russian border in Sumy region – as coming under Russian control. That makes three more settlements captured in eastern Ukraine<\/strong>. All of this strongly suggests that peace is no closer on the horizon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 05\/25\/2025 – 11:05<\/span><\/p>\n

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