India, Sept. 28 -- Russia has deployed nearly 1,920 attack drones and 1,790 guided aerial bombs on Ukraine over a recent seven-day period, along with 17 missiles of various types, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a statement. The scale of the bombardment represents a deliberate strategy to overwhelm Ukrainian air defences through sheer volume of simultaneous attacks rather than through technological superiority.

Zelensky characterised the relentless campaign as reflecting Moscow's fundamentally contradictory posture. Whilst Russian diplomatic representatives participate in back-channel negotiations with American and European interlocutors, Russian military planners simultaneously escalate attacks targeting residential infra...