"If the talks don't work out, then we'll just bomb!" At around midnight on July 4, 2025, local time, Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, suffered the most intense suicide drone and ballistic missile attack in the Russia-Ukraine war. At least 12 Iskander-M tactical ballistic missiles, Kh-47 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, hit the Vasylkiv area of Kyiv. After Russian forces launched Iranian Shahed-136 suicide drones, hypersonic missiles, and Iskander-M tactical ballistic missiles, Kyiv was engulfed in flames, with "small suns" everywhere from the explosions lighting up the city. This round of Russian bombing occurred after a phone call between US President Trump and Russian President Putin, when Kyiv suffered a large-scale drone attack, followed by a ballistic missile strike. It also happened after a Russian naval deputy commander was killed by Ukrainian forces firing the HIMARS long-range rocket artillery. Local residents reported that the area near Kyiv International Airport was "under a large-scale attack," and the Ukrainian air defense forces' anti-aircraft guns and machine guns were desperately firing interceptors into the sky above Kyiv. It is said that this round of heavy bombing by the Russian military mainly targeted Kyiv's Zhulyany International Airport and Vasylkiv Air Base. There were as many as 20 explosion sounds heard at the scene. Such a terrifying rain of ballistic missiles has not been seen for a long time. July 4 is the United States' Independence Day. As a puppet of the United States, the Russian military used missiles and drones to "celebrate" Ukraine's Independence Day. The Russia-Ukraine war now is in a situation where if the US and Russia can't reach an agreement, the Russians will continue to bomb until they do. The Ukrainian authorities have been hurt again, taking the hardest blow, and even the qualification to be a "dish" is being discussed. Talks are one thing, fighting is another; what cannot be obtained on the battlefield, it is unlikely to be obtained at the negotiation table.

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