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🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the NewsHour. |
0:02.0 | Russia is escalating its bombing campaign against Ukraine with a massive drone attack hitting cities and towns overnight and into this morning. |
0:10.0 | In the past week alone, 30 Ukrainians have been killed and more than 163 injured. |
0:15.0 | That's prompted President Trump to lash out at Russian President Vladimir Putin, |
0:19.0 | but also Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky |
0:21.9 | as diplomacy stalls and violence rages. |
0:25.9 | A late night for Ukraine as flames and sirens broke through the darkness. |
0:31.2 | Overnight, Russia sent the biggest drone attack of the entire war so far. |
0:36.8 | Ukrainian Air Force officials say more than 355 drones came from Russia last night. |
0:43.3 | And the night before, 298 drones, plus almost 69 missiles. |
0:51.3 | Today, Ukrainian President Volodomir Zelensky said the attacks made it clear |
0:56.2 | Russian President Vladimir Putin didn't want to end the war. |
1:00.0 | All the more so as Russian strikes are becoming increasingly brazen. Over 900 attack drones |
1:07.5 | launched against Ukraine in just three days, along with ballistic and cruise missiles. |
1:13.7 | On Sunday outside of Kiev, Ivan and Mubo Federenko's home was destroyed. |
1:20.3 | Thank God we had no children at home. Yesterday, I was trying to persuade my daughter to come to us. |
1:26.4 | After all, she lives on the eighth floor |
1:28.1 | in Kyiv, and here it's the ground floor. She said, no, Mom, I'm not coming. And thank God she |
1:33.6 | didn't come, because the rocket hit on the side where the children's rooms were. Moscow's |
1:38.4 | Defense Ministry says they've shot down more than 100 Ukrainian drones, and flights to Moscow |
1:43.7 | were diverted on Sunday and Monday. |
1:46.8 | On the tarmac yesterday, President Trump said he was losing patience with Russian President |
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