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Waiting for Putin's revenge! US expects massive response from Russia to Ukrainian drone attacks
2025-06-08 20:31:30 / BOTA
The United States believes Russian President Vladimir Putin's threat of retaliation against Ukraine for last weekend's drone strike has not yet materialized and expects it to be a significant and multi-pronged attack, US officials told Reuters.
The timing of a full Russian response is unclear, with one source saying it is expected within days, while another said retaliation would likely include a combination of massive missile and drone strikes.
The officials did not say which targets the US intelligence community believed Russia would target, but one said Moscow's attack would be "asymmetric," meaning it would not target just one target, which would match Ukraine's attack on Russian fighter jets.
Russia launched an intense barrage of fire on Kiev on Friday, after which the Russian Defense Ministry said the attack on military and military-related targets was in response to what it called Ukrainian "acts of terrorism" against Russia, but US officials say the real Russian response has yet to come.
Another senior Western diplomat predicted a further devastating attack from Moscow and said it would be "big, savage and ruthless".
Michael Koffman, a Russia expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said he expects Moscow to try to punish Ukraine's internal security agency, the SBU, for its role in last weekend's attack.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump in a phone call that Moscow would have to respond to the attack, Trump said at the time, adding that "it won't be pretty."
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