On Sunday, at least seven people were killed after Russia launched a drone dam across Ukraine, according to Ukrainian local officials and emergency services.
The attack on the Ukrainian capital was before the cease-fire negotiations in Saudi Arabia in which Ukraine and Russia should organize Monday mediated talks by the United States to discuss a break in long-range attacks targeting energy facilities and civil infrastructure.
The Ukrainian delegation is expected to meet US officials in Saudi Arabia one day before indirect talks, Ukrainian President Voldoymyr Zelenskyy said. Ukraine plans to send technical teams to discuss details of the partial ceasefire.
Russia has launched 147 drones across Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Ukrainian air defenses have dropped 97 and 25 others do not reach objectives due to Ukrainian countermeasures. The attacks struck the regions of Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Odesa and Donetsk, as well as the capital, kyiv.
Three people, including a 5 -year -old child, were killed and 10 other people were injured in a drone attack on kyiv, said the city’s military administration. Prolonged sounds of explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital in the early hours of the night while the air raid sounds for more than five hours. Russian drones and slaughtered drone debris, which flew to lower altitudes to escape the air defenses, fell into residential buildings.
The Ukrainians at the scene of kyiv’s attacks interviewed the damage caused to their houses and neighborhoods on Sunday morning. Many disparage the next cease-fire talks, pointing burned houses destroyed in the attack of the drone, saying that this was more revealing of the real intentions of Russia.
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In an old several storey building on the left bank of Kyiv which was damaged during the night attack, Dmytro Zapadnya, 37, said that he had no confidence in Russia, confirming any ceasefire agreement.
“There is no point in signing anything (with the Russians), because this will not be worth the cost of paper where you put this signature. Well, the only thing that is not very pleasant, is that now the United States seems to have little understanding of our situation,” he said.
Elsewhere, four people were killed in Russian attacks against the Ukrainian Donetsk region, said regional governor Vadym Filashkin, including three who died on strike on the Ukrainian city of Dobroplyya on the front line.
In a press release on social networks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that attacks such as Kiev was a daily event for Ukraine.
“This week alone, more than 1,580 guided air bombs, nearly 1,100 typing drones and 15 missiles of various types were used against our people,” he said. “New solutions are necessary, with new pressure on Moscow to stop these two strikes and this war.”
Also Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that it had shot down 59 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 29 in the Rostov region and 20 more in the southwest of Astrakhan. In Rostov, a person was killed and a car caught fire due to the attack by Ukrainian drone, according to the temporary governor of the region, Yuri Slyusar.
A woman also died in the Russian border village of Novostroyevka-Pervaya in the Belgorod region when a Ukrainian drone hit a car in which she was traveling.
The driver, the woman’s daughter, was also seriously injured in the attack, said local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
The journalist of Associated Press, Bela Szandelszky, contributed.
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