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Zelensky: War Is ‘Returning’ to Russian Soil After Moscow Drone Attack

HITTING BACK

The war “is returning to the territory of Russia—to its symbolic centers and military bases, and this is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process,” Zelensky said Sunday.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz via phone line.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed that combat will be coming to Russian territory after this weekend’s drone attack on Moscow. Zelensky called such attacks on Russian land “inevitable” in a Sunday video address about the war. “Today is the 522nd day of the so-called ‘Special Military Operation’, which the Russian leadership thought would last a couple of weeks,” he said. “Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia—to its symbolic centers and military bases, and this is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process.” Russia’s defense ministry said the Kremlin downed three Ukrainian drones on Sunday.

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