Russia fired its biggest-ever drone barrage on Ukraine on Monday, Kyiv said, escalating a deadly air campaign that analysts say offers little military value and instead appears intended to erode civilians’ morale.

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The dead included three children in the northern region of Zhytomyr, local officials said. Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on the U.S. to speak out.

Western partners are not imposing any range restrictions on weapons delivered to Ukraine for use against Russian military targets, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on May 26. "This means that Ukraine can now defend itself,

The Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other regions came under a massive Russian drone-and-missile attack Sunday that killed at least 12 people and injured dozens.

There are "no longer any range restrictions on weapons delivered to Ukraine," Germany's new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said on Monday.

Ukraine’s allies have imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia and its supporters over the full-scale war, but experts say there’s room for more.

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The warnings over the offensive come as a U.S.-brokered peace process has limped along with inconclusive meetings and little concrete results.