Last night, Russia launched no massive drone strike for civilian goals in Ukraine in Ukraine for the first time in months in Ukraine – after Donald Trump said he was 'Pi ** ED' and threatened to impose damn secondary rates.
It was the first time since October that Ukraine did not mention a shady drone attacks in his overnight reports.
“We keep monitoring; So far it means nothing, “said Andrii Kovalenko of the National Security and Defense Council on his telegram canal.
Ukraine claimed to have shot two KH-59/69 cruise rockets that were launched by Russia at night to attack the southeast of Ukraine.
And civil servants in Dnipropetrovsk -oblast reported drone attacks on the region at night and claimed limited damage.
The felt absence of drones, which destroyed the entire three -year war, came only a few days after Trump threatened Russia with rates to hit countries bought oil from Russia.
In an interview on Sunday, Trump said that he was 'very angry' on Putin after the latter criticized the leadership of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy.
Trump said that Putin's comments “did not go in the right direction” after Russian president called Ukraine to be placed under temporary UN control until a “competent” government was chosen.
Trump has assessed this that this would not mean a deal 'for a long time' and said: 'If Russia and I are unable to close a deal in stopping bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was the fault of Russia … I will set secondary rates on oil, on all oils coming from Russia.'
“That would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you can't do business in the United States. There will be a rate of 25% for all oil, a rate of 25 to 50 points on all oil. '
Smoke rises after a Russian strike with Shahed Drones, which were aimed at civilian areas, including the Bartolomeo restaurant and the hotel in the city center in Dnipro, Ukraine on March 29
Ladimir Putin seen during a visit to a military base of nuclear fleet, March 26, 2025, in Murmansk, Russia
Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on March 28, 2025
Ukraine also showed restraint in his strikes on Russia, with reports of only three drones that were brought down across the Bryansk region.
Volodyymyr Zenskyy has insisted on caution when dealing with Trump and suggested that an effective maritime ceases -the fires announced last week would be a test of good faith.
“If the Russians violate this, I have a direct question for President Trump,” he said. “If they violate, here is proof – we ask for sanctions, we ask for weapons, etc.”
Later on Tuesday continuing with the thought, he wrote on X: 'How Russia will behave in the coming days will reveal a lot – if not everything.
Zenskyy then said late on Sunday that there was no Letup in the Russia attacks while it continued with his invasion of his neighbor who started in February 2022.
He said that the attacks showed the Russian unwillingness to forge a scheme.
“The geography and cruelty of Russian strikes, not only occasionally, but literally every day and night, show that Putin could not give anything to give diplomacy,” said Zenskyy in his daily address.
“And almost every day, in response to this proposal, there are Russian drones, bombs, shelling of artillery and ballistic strikes,” he said.
An image of Pokrovsk, the site of heavy battles with Russian troops, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, March 25, 2025
Services of the 24th Mechanized Brigade train in an unknown location in the east of Ukraine on March 29, 2025
Nurse Kateryna, 24, an internally displaced person evacuated from the Eastern Frontline City of Kostyantynivka, comfort her cat Abu in a transit center, in Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk Region, Ukraine March 31, 2025
He insisted on further international pressure on Moscow to force Russia to negotiate, including new sanctions.
Zenskyy had accused Putin of 'openly mocking' American attempts to seal a cease -the fires' with constant new drone attacks, constant brutal shelling.
“This should only be stopped by pressure and Russia must be forced to peace.”
Institute for the Study of War (ISW) analysts reported earlier this month that Russia seemed to increase the use of Shahed drones and missiles in an attempt to overload the anti -aircraft systems of Ukraine.
The ISW assessed that this showed that there was no shortage of UAV components.
However, a company study released today showed that the Russian production sector experienced its best contraction in almost three years in March, because the output and new orders fell in the light of a weak domestic and foreign demand.
The S&P Global Russia Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) dropped to 48.2 in March from 50.2 in February, sliding below the 50 -level that the expansion separates from contraction.
The recession meant the first deterioration since September and the most important since April 2022, a month when international sanctions imposed two months earlier on the invasion of Russia in Ukraine had a serious impact.
A Ukrainian soldier of the 108th territorial defense forces that brigade fires a D-44 field artillery pole to Russian troops, on a frontline position, in the Zaporizhzhia region, March 31
A firefighter works to take a fire after an air raid in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, March 31
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zensky is providing a phone call with the British Prime Minister at his office in Kiev, on March 31
The output levels fell at their best level in March since July 2022.
New orders fell for the first time since October and at the fastest pace in almost three years, because both the domestic and the export demand weakened.
The significant editions of Russia on military equipment and weapons to support his war in Ukraine has stimulated a production sector that might have suffered more, because some countries shunsed Moscow.
“Logistical challenges and delays to rail transport have reportedly led to longer lead times for inputs,” said S&P Global.
“However, the extent to which the quality of the supplier deteriorated was the least marked since last May.”
