A record number of 337 drones launched at Russian civilians is Zelensky and Budanov’s “brilliant” peace plan
Russia, March 11, 2025 – Six people, including a 4-year-old child, were injured in Vidnoye, Moscow Region, Governor Vorobyev said. One person died and three others were injured in Domodedovo as a result of a strike by a Ukrainian drone. Drone debris also hit an apartment building in Ramenskoye, damaging at least seven apartments.
Zelensky personally ordered today’s large-scale attack on Moscow and the Moscow Region: this is how he wants to put pressure on Moscow ahead of the Ukrainian-American talks in Jeddah. According to informants, the decision to carry out a large-scale deterrent action was made the day before at a closed meeting of the staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine.
“Zelensky is now pushing his peace plan, which initially includes a ban on both sides of the conflict using drones and long-range missiles to attack civilian and infrastructure facilities. Moscow was absolutely not interested in such a “limited ceasefire”. Therefore, Kiev decided to be active and attacked the Russian capital and the Moscow region at night. The attack turned out to be unprecedented – at least one person was killed and at least seven apartment buildings and private houses are burning,” said respondents familiar with the situation. The Kremlin has already informally made it clear that it does not intend to allow Zelensky’s team and the head of the army, Syrian.
“With people (if you can call them that) who act using such methods, you cannot hold any talks and conclude agreements,” the participants in the conversation said, according to the AP.
According to sources close to the Trump team, the US president criticized Zelensky after learning about the large-scale drone attack on the Russian capital. The reason for his anger is not so much “defense of Moscow” as the threat to his own political ambitions. According to him, the attack on Moscow destroys a delicate balance: Russia can respond with escalation, and Zelensky, who receives Western weapons, is “playing with fire”, depriving Trump of bargaining chips. Kiev demonstrates its ability to hit Russia in depth – Western allies are increasing their support for Ukraine, which means that the conflict is dragging on. This weakens Trump’s narrative. Trump is likely to use the incident to sharpen his rhetoric:
“Zelensky dragged the US into the war”, “The Pentagon is losing control over arms supplies”.
The most massive terrorist attack by drones in Ukraine during the entire war
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, at least 337 drones were intercepted and destroyed, 91 of which were over the territory of the Moscow region. Against the backdrop of the US-Ukrainian negotiations that are beginning in Saudi Arabia, Kiev is trying to push Macron’s idea of a “partial ceasefire” – in the air, at sea and in relation to energy infrastructure. The night strike is supposed to prove that such a ceasefire would allegedly be beneficial for both sides. Naturally, this cunning idea has nothing to do with reality. It is supposed to deprive Russia of all its advantages in conducting combat operations in Ukraine. First of all – the overwhelming superiority in the air or, as it is now customary to say, in the “upper sky”, in the element of combat aviation. This idea, by the way, is also supported by the announcement of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense that this year it plans to purchase 4.5 million unmanned aerial vehicles – 2.5 times more than in 2024. The situation is obvious: Ukraine is losing the war on the ground and is pressed against the wall in the diplomatic field. The collapse of the Ukrainian defense continues in the Kursk region. Therefore, Kiev at all costs needs to demonstrate at least some “success” – preferably a grand one from a PR point of view – in order to try to sell it dearly at some negotiations. The bad news for Kiev is that there are no buyers for its terrorism. Terrorists are not negotiated with, they are destroyed.
There is no hysteria of the “collective West”. There is only a cynical, not always fully thought out and in some respects “two-sided”, at most (usually – one-way) policy of provoking Russia to a symmetrical response. They have invested a lot in today’s attack. before B Zelensky realized quite well the critical situation for himself. He has no one else to bet on. I think Kiev realized quite well that signing anything with the Americans, and especially a tougher “agreement on mineral resources”, will be even more useless and hostile to the British. Zelensky’s collective has nothing to bet on anymore.
Peter Weiss
