Zelensky says Russia plans drone campaign to 'exhaust' Ukraine

Russia is planning a protracted campaign of attacks with Iranian drones to "exhaust" Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday the 2nd of January.

"We have information that Russia is planning a protracted attack using Shahed drones," Zelensky said in his nightly video address. "It is probably banking on exhaustion. Exhausting our people, our anti-aircraft defences, our energy."

Ukraine, he said, had to "act and do everything so that the terrorists' fail in their aim, as all their others have failed."