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    Drones strike Moscow as top UK official highlights Russian casualties in Ukraine

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    Kyiv, Ukraine – A massive drone strike rocked Moscow and its suburbs overnight Sunday, injuring a woman and temporarily halting traffic at some of Russia’s busiest airports, as a huge wave of Russian drones targeted Ukraine, officials reported .

    This came after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a pact with North Korea late on Saturday, obliging the two countries to provide immediate military aid using “all means” if either is attacked. The agreement marks the strongest tie between Moscow and Pyongyang since the end of the Cold War.

    Earlier this week, Ukraine reported that its troops engaged North Korean units for the first time. US officials previously confirmed the deployment of at least 3,000 North Korean troops to Russia, fueling fears that this could further destabilize the Asia-Pacific and widen Moscow’s war against Ukraine.

    Both Moscow and Kiev have kept the casualty figures under control since the start of the full-scale war, despite regular reports that Russian forces have suffered huge losses in “human valley” attacks aimed at wearing out Ukrainian defences.

    However, UK Chief of Defense Staff Tony Radakin told the BBC that Russian forces suffered their worst month of casualties in October since their full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He said troops Muscovites suffered an average of 1,500 deaths. and wounded “every day,” bringing their total war losses to 700,000.

    According to Radakin, ordinary Russians were paying “an extraordinary price” for the war, even as Russia’s grueling months-long offensive in Ukraine’s industrial east continues to make gains. He did not say how UK officials calculated the Russian casualty figures.

    “There is no doubt that Russia is making tactical, territorial gains and that is putting pressure on Ukraine,” he said, but that the losses were for “small steps” and Moscow’s growing defense and security spending was putting a increasing pressure. on the country.

    Radakin insisted that Ukraine’s Western partners should support “as long as it takes” to defeat Russian aggression, even as allies of US President-elect Donald Trump signaled that Kiev may have to cede territory to seek the peace

    On Sunday, the Kremlin’s official spokesman expressed cautious optimism about Trump’s future presidency, saying: “At least he’s talking about peace … he’s not talking about confrontation.”

    “The signals are positive. Trump, during his election campaign, said that he perceives everything through agreements, that he can conclude agreements that will lead everyone to peace,” Dmitry Peskov told reporters at a briefing.

    “He doesn’t talk about wanting to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, and that sets him apart favorably from the current (US) administration,” Peskov said.

    Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said a total of 70 drones were downed overnight on Russian soil, including 34 on the outskirts of Moscow. Russia’s aviation authority said flights were briefly suspended at major international airports, including Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo.

    A 50-year-old woman suffered burns to her face, neck and hands after drones started a fire in her village in southeastern Moscow, local governor Andrei Vorobyov said.

    No one was injured in Moscow itself, according to Sobyanin, although Russian channels on the Telegram messaging app carried eyewitness reports of drone debris setting fire to suburban homes.

    Russia launched a “record” 145 drones into Ukrainian territory overnight, according to the Ukrainian air force, of which 62 were shot down. Another 67 were “lost,” the air force said, a likely reference to electronic jamming that caused the drones to veer off course.

    At least one person was injured as Russian drones struck residential areas in Ukraine’s southern port of Odesa, local governor Oleh Kiper said.

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