Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on his military to increase its long-range drone strikes against Russia as Moscow continues to carry out deadly attacks across Ukraine,
AL Jazeera reports.
In his evening address on Friday, Zelenskyy said he plans for the army to launch at least “1,000 drones” against Russia daily, a more than threefold jump from the current estimate of 300.
“There needs to be more,” the president said. “There is a concrete goal, and we will fulfil this task.”
In a Telegram post, Zelenskyy also addressed reports that the United States’s spy chief, John Ratcliffe, had visited Moscow for meetings.
Zelenskyy said Kyiv “received information from the American side about the meetings in Moscow that took place these days”, but did not elaborate further.
“There were a number of meetings there,” he added, thanking the US “for the information and for the necessary tone of the conversation with Russia”.
The Kremlin confirmed Ratcliffe met Russian intelligence officials in Moscow, but said there were “no meetings of any kind with the Russian president”.
The CIA director’s visit to Moscow marked a rare high-level direct intelligence engagement amid stalled peace negotiations.
