Days after operation Spiderweb, Russia launched 407 drones and 45 missiles at the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, i n the early hours of Friday, June 6th. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow’s attack injured 80, killed six, and targeted “almost all” of Ukraine, listing nine regions, from Lviv in the west to Sumy in the northeast.

US President Donald Trump said it might be necessary to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a little while” before brokering a peace deal and suggested he might be willing to implement fresh sanctions on both countries if he determined the conflict wasn’t going to end.

US President Donald Trump has suggested that Ukraine itself provoked the Russian strikes by conducting Operation Spider's Web. Source: Trump speaking to journalists on board Air Force One Details: Responding to a journalist's question about whether Operation Spider's Web had changed his view of what advantages Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy holds,