Russian Aerial Barrage Leaves Thousands in Dark After Trump Calls for Peace

Russian military forces launched a blistering aerial barrage on Ukraine overnight, killing one and leaving thousands in the dark – hours after President Trump called for peace between the warring combatants.

forces from Moscow largely targeted Ukrainian forces and infrastructure on the front lines and fired roughly 268 guided aerial bombs, each carrying a payload of 3,307 pounds, CNN reported citing the Ukrainian military.

One unidentified man was killed in the village of Zelenyi Hair, according to Ukrainian officials.

Nearly all districts in the city of Chuhuiv, located in the Kharkiv region, were cut off from the electrical grid and left fully in the dark, EuroNews reported.

One Russian strike hit an energy facility in the Koriukivka district and knocked out power to 17,000 people, according to the report.

The wave of attacks on Ukraine have been escalating, with Moscow launching an average of 180 drones every night through the month of September, CNN reported.

“Moscow has developed fresh ways of using drones to find and kill Ukrainian soldiers and to destroy Ukrainian assets, turning what was onc an area of weakness into an area of strength,” long-time Russia analyst Dara Massicot wrote in the most recent issue of Foreign Affairs.

“It has built better missiles and created more rugged and capable armored systems. It is giving junior commanders more freedom to plan.”

russia is continuing to make thier slow advancement on the front lines.