Charles Maines
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Yet Putin said reports that the U.S.
was considering providing American-made Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine would mark a new stage of escalation.
If we are a paper tiger, asked Putin, then what is NATO itself?
Charles Baines, NPR News, Moscow.
Up First from NPR · Ukrainian Drone Strikes, Senate Budget Bill, Colorado Attack · 2 Jun 2025
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Sure. You know, Ukraine smuggled remotely operated drones laden with explosives deep into Russia. And by deep, I mean deep up into the Arctic, also into Siberia, some 2700 miles away. Now, they did this by hiding the drones in the tops of flatbed trucks, which then parked near military bases before lifting off to attack planes on the runway. And we know this because Russians filmed it.
Local authorities shared this witness video, saying it was the first Ukrainian drone attack in Siberia.
In fact, they have. President Volodymyr Zelensky said he personally oversaw the operation. Here he is speaking last night.
So here, Zelensky says that in total, 117 drones were deployed, damaging a full third of Russia's strategic cruise missile carriers. In fact, Ukraine claims it destroyed 41 Russian bombers, types of which have been used to attack Ukraine.
Well, we haven't heard from Russian President Vladimir Putin yet. Russia's defense ministry confirmed the drone strikes on several bases, but played down their impact, saying only several planes had caught fire. Now, we haven't been able to independently verify any of this, but arguably the perception that Ukraine can strike anywhere is as important as the physical damage.
For example, one pro-Kremlin military blogger compared Sunday's attack to a Russian Pearl Harbor.
Yeah, a lot happened. Ukraine said Russia launched more than 470 drones and missiles on targets across Ukraine, the deadliest of which hit a military training base, killing 12 soldiers.
Meanwhile, at least seven people were killed and dozens more injured after a bridge collapsed on a Russian passenger train traveling in western Russia Saturday night and a separate rail bridge collapsed in a neighboring Russian region hours later, derailing a freight train. Russian authorities have launched a terrorism probe and some in Moscow are already blaming Ukraine.
That said, we've heard nothing yet from Kyiv about this.
Well, the idea here is the two sides will discuss proposals outlining their visions for a peace accord. Russia has gone into these talks presenting itself as the one dictating the terms because it's in the stronger position militarily.
President Trump, who deserves some credit, I think, for forcing these two sides to the negotiating table, has essentially agreed with that Russian position and argued Ukraine needs to make major concessions. Think back to that moment in the White House earlier this year when Trump told Zelensky Ukraine had no cards to play. Well, that narrative was somewhat upended by events on Sunday.
Ukraine clearly does have some cards to play militarily. The question is, what does Trump make of it and how does Moscow respond?
Thank you.
Morning, Michelle.
You know, this began with Trump expressing anger over Russia's intense bombing of cities across Ukraine over the weekend. Trump initially said Putin had gone absolutely crazy and threatened potential sanctions. That was on Sunday. Two days later, Trump reminded Moscow that if it hadn't been for him, quote, really bad things would have already happened to Russia.
He warned Putin he was playing with fire. And then yesterday, Trump said he was disappointed that Russia had continued attacks while negotiations were ongoing. Yet on this issue of hitting Russia with new sanctions or some other response, Trump made clear he's not there yet.
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