Russia launches a major drone attack on Kharkiv, sparking blazes at civilian sites. Trump says he’s angry with Putin. Pastor Mark Burns, one of Trump’s top advisers, visited Ukraine on Monday. An Increasing tempo of fighting as Russia advances near three villages in Donetsk region, according to DeepState.
Russia launches major drone attack on Kharkiv, sparking blazes at civilian sites
Russia launched a major drone attack on the city of Kharkiv on Monday for a second consecutive night, injuring three people and sparking large-scale fires.
The drones struck a civilian enterprise in the Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv, causing a fire that spread across an industrial facility and a warehouse, covering an area of more than 3,900 square meters, the State Emergency Service said.
Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said the attacks came in two waves and that five drones hit targets. “Five industrial buildings of a research and production enterprise were damaged,” he said, adding that the drone assault on the city also damaged 11 apartment buildings and two kindergartens.
Three injured men were treated on the spot, he said.
Russia launched 131 drones and two ballistic missiles at Ukraine overnight on Monday. The Ukrainian Air Force said a total of 102 drones were shot down or disappeared off radar after likely being disabled by electronic warfare systems.
Trump says he’s angry with Putin
President Donald Trump said he was “very angry” and “pissed off” when Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the credibility of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s leadership, adding that the comments were “not going in the right location.” In a series of remarks on Thursday, March 27, Russian leader Vladimir Putin suggested Ukraine be placed under a form of UN- and U.S.-led temporary administration.
“If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault — which it might not be — but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia,” Trump said in an early-morning phone call with NBC News on Sunday. The paragraphs below are quoted from the news piece.
“That would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you can’t do business in the United States,” Trump said. “There will be a 25% tariff on all oil, a 25- to 50-point tariff on all oil,” Trump said, saying the tariffs on Russia would come within a month without a ceasefire deal.
Trump said Putin knows he is angry but said he has “a very good relationship with him” and “the anger dissipates quickly … if he does the right thing.”
Trump also said late Sunday there is a “psychological deadline” for Russia to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine, shortly after he had expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“It’s a psychological deadline,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked if there was a deadline for Russia to agree to a deal. “If I think they’re tapping us along, I will not be happy about it,” he was quoted as saying by The Hill.
The two men plan to speak again this week, Trump said.
Pastor Mark Burns, one of Trump’s top advisers, visited Ukraine on Monday as the country was marking the third anniversary of the liberation of Bucha. Ukraine’s chief rabbi, Moshe Azman said on X: “At my invitation, a special guest has arrived in Ukraine — Pastor Mark Burns, President Donald Trump’s special spiritual advisor. He is a well-known figure in the religious and political circles of the United States, whose voice today is important in shaping the new strategy and policy of America.”
Burns traveled to Kyiv’s outskirts of Bucha, Irpin, and Borodyanka “to see with his own eyes the consequences of the atrocities committed by the Russian army against the peaceful population of Ukraine, and personally feel the reports of witnesses who lived through this terrible occupation,” Moshe Azman added.
Increasing tempo of fighting as Russia advances near three villages in Donetsk region
Russian forces have advanced in the Donetsk region’s village of Rozlyv, and near Panteleymonivka and Nove, DeepState, a Ukrainian OSINT project said overnight on Monday.
They have earlier made advances near the villages of Katerynivka and Panteleymonivka in the same region, the analysts said on Friday.
Between March 25 and March 28, Russia conducted 200 assaults daily. The tempo of the assaults is the same as the one recorded in the second half of January 2025, DeepState said.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in an update on Monday morning that 171 combat engagements happened in the past day.
Russian forces conducted two missile and 116 air strikes at the positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas by launching two missiles and dropping 223 glide bombs. They also made more than 5,300 attacks, including 130 from multiple launch rocket systems, and used 2,620 kamikaze drones, the message reads.
