US President Donald Trump said that Kiev gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a reason to "bomb the hell out of them" when Ukraine attacked airfields in several Russian regions earlier this month.
Last Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Kiev had carried out a terrorist attack using FPV drones at airfields in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur regions. All the attacks on airfields in the Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur regions were repelled. According to the ministry, the fires that occurred as a result of Ukraine's attacks on airfields in the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions were extinguished.
"Well they gave Putin a reason to go in and bomb the hell out of them last night. That’s the thing I didn’t like about it. When I saw it I said, ‘Here we go, now it’s going to be a strike’," Trump told reporters when asked about Ukraine’s drone attacks inside Russia.
Asked whether he was worried that the Russia-Ukraine conflict could spiral into a nuclear one, Trump said "I don’t… I hope not. I hope not."