Russia has battered Ukraine overnight with its largest drone attack since the war began, Ukraine’s military said Sunday, as Moscow intensified its military assault despite holding direct peace talks with Kyiv Friday.

Russian occupiers attacked Kyiv region with over 150 drones during the night of May 18, marking one of the most massive strikes on the area, according toMykola Kalashnyk, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration,

Trump has shifted U.S. rhetoric from supporting Ukraine toward accepting some of Moscow's narrative about the war. Kyiv and its European allies are working hard to persuade him that it is now Moscow that is holding up a truce.