Despite Trump’s peace calls, Russian attacks on Ukraine double since inauguration

Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, Russia has doubled the number of drones and missiles fired towards Ukraine.

In 2024, former President Joe Biden was already rising, but in November, Trump climbed sharply after the election victory. Since he returned to office in January, he recorded air strikes from Moscow and reached the highest level of war.

During his campaign, Trump promised to put an end to the fight in just one day if he returned to the office. During the 2024 campaign, he claimed that Russia’s full -scale Ukrainian invasion could be prevented, and there was a president that the Kremlin “respected”.

However, in his efforts to obtain a ceasefire, he was accused of choosing Russia by critics, and his administration paused the delivery of air defense ammunition and other military supplies in two separate cases.

Stops have been announced in March and July, since Russia continuously increased the production of missiles and drones since its reversal by the President. According to Ukrainian military intelligence, the construction of ballistic missiles in Russia grew by 66% last year.

Based on the daily incident reports published by the Ukraine Air Force, the data reviewed by the BBC showed that Russia’s presidency began compared to 11,614 in the last six months of Biden’s period and started 27,158 ammunition between 20 January compared to 19 July.

“This brutal war was brought by Joe Biden’s inadequacy and continued for a long time,” the White House press secretary Anna Kelly said to BBC Verify. He said.

“President Trump wants to stop killing, so he sells American -made weapons to NATO members and threatens Putin with biting tariffs and sanctions if he does not accept a ceasefire.”

During the opening weeks of the new administration, the White House issued a series of hot expressions aiming to convince President Vladimir Putin to a settlement. During this period, Russian attacks against Ukraine fell briefly compared to the last weeks of Biden administration.

However, until February, when the US diplomats led by Foreign Minister Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Riyadh, the attacks began to climb again.

He followed the talks that Rubio said it was a starting point to end the war. Discussions between Ukrainian and Russian authorities In Türkiye.

According to Ukrainian Air Force data, the attacks went to the summit in which Moscow launched 748 drones and missiles in Ukraine on July 9th at the beginning of last month. More than a dozen people It was reported that he was injured by the dam and two people were killed.

Although Trump expresses anger in Russian attacks several times, the assembly disappointment has no effect on Moscow’s strategy.

On May 25, Russia launched the largest recorded dam at that time and asked him to ask Trump angrily: ” [Putin]? “

Since then, Russia has exceeded this number of launchs that have been reported 14 times. Trump, Kremlin reached a peace agreement with Ukraine until 8 August.

The number of Russian ammunition penetrating Ukrainian air defenses is increasing, and the explosions around the capital Kiev are becoming a part of daily life for the residents of the city.

Dasha Volk, a journalist living in the city, told the BBC to the Ukrayecast program in June, “You don’t know that you won’t wake up the next morning, and it’s just a normal way,” Dasha Volk said.

“When you hear a explosion or missile flying on your head, many thoughts in my mind – now I’m going to die, things like that.”

Senator Chris Coons, a senior democrat at the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that BBC’s decision to suspend Trump twice and its wider approach to Russian relations may have convinced that the Kremlin has freedom to increase the attacks.

“Putin is encouraged by Trump’s weakness and increased his vicious attack against the people of Ukraine, and repeatedly attacked hospitals and birth wards, Ukraine power network and other civilian areas.” He said.

Growing attacks renewed the US calls for sending new anti -Patriot batteries to Ukraine. Patriotics are the most talented and expensive air defense systems in Ukraine. The cost of each patriot battery costs approximately $ 1 billion (£ 800 million) and the cost of each missile is about $ 4 million.

Trump overthrew previous supply pauses and agreed to sell weapons to NATO members, which will supply them to Kiev. Trump seemed to imply that the agreement would contain new patriotic battery materials.

Justin Bronk, an analyst focused on the Russian army at the Royal United Services Institute (Russian), said that restrictions on the supply of military equipment given by the White House made Ukraine “vulnerable” on missile and drone attacks.

However, Russia’s production of missiles such as Geran-2, which is a domestic version of Iran Shahed drone, and called ‘Kamikaze’ drones. Mr. Bronk said Russia’s increasing stocks encouraged Moscow to raise the air campaign when combined with “important decreases” in the supply of US prevention missiles.

Ukraine Military Intelligence Agency (HUR) recently said that Russia has produced ballistic missiles from 44 to 85 per month in April 2024 to domestic media.

It is reported that Russia has established a large production facility in Alabuga in the south of the country and produces 170 Geran drone per day.

In an recent interview with Russian military TV, Timur Shagivaleyev, the director of the facility, added that Alabuga has become the “world’s largest war drone production facility” and that its workers produced nine times more units than expected at the beginning.

Satellite images show that the facility has expanded significantly since the middle of 2024 and has created a series of new warehouses on the site.

Other structures that seem to expand to workers’ dormitories remain under construction.

Senator Coons, the increase in production, Washington’un threatening some administrative authorities to make it clear that it should not be prepared to move clearly means that it means that it means that it should be clearly stated, and peace can only be obtained through “security aid”.

He added that President Trump should clearly state that he would “not only try to stand longer than the West” to Russia.

“To do this, he has to continue a consistent and constant position in the war.”

Meanwhile, Volk said that the Russian campaign is dragged every day and the public morale of Ukraine has fallen.

“People get tired of these attacks, they really affect our lives,” he said.

“We know what we’re fighting for, but every year it gets more difficult because everyone is running out. This is the truth.”