Zelenskyy: Russian Missiles, Bombs and Drones Can Be Stopped at the Production Stage

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that Russian missiles, guided bombs, and drones can be prevented from reaching Ukraine not just in the skies but also during their production. Addressing Russia's recent attacks, Zelenskyy mentioned emergency services had been responding to strikes in various Ukrainian regions since the previous night.

In Kramatorsk, a Russian guided aerial bomb caused part of a ten-story residential building to collapse, resulting in one death and 16 injuries. In Stepanivka, a Russian Shahed drone targeted a private home, killing two people, including a child, while another drone attacked a nine-story apartment building in Smila, causing fires and injuring five people.

Zelenskyy reported that Russia had also launched attacks in the Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, and Chernihiv regions.

The Ukrainian leader emphasized that Russia deploys approximately 220 guided aerial bombs daily against Ukrainian frontline communities. To counter this, constant pressure must be applied to every supply chain for foreign components and any enterprise that contributes to weapon production. Zelenskyy stressed that sanctions and international restrictions should not only target completed weapons but also the industries and foreign-supplied components that enable their production.

According to Ukraine's Air Force, 90 out of 112 Russian drones launched during the overnight attack were successfully destroyed or rendered ineffective.