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ReutersUkraine says Russia has launched its greatest drone assault for the reason that full-scale invasion started, focusing on a number of areas together with Kyiv, the place one girl died.
Russia had launched 273 drones by 08:00 Sunday (05:00 GMT) focusing on the central Kyiv area and Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk areas within the east, Ukraine’s air power stated.
The barrage has come only a day earlier than a scheduled name between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The US President has been urging a ceasefire.
Russian and Ukraine had their first face-to-face talks in additional than three years on Friday in Turkey, but it surely yielded little in addition to a brand new prisoner swap deal.
Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated on Sunday that he and leaders of Britain, France, and Poland would have a digital assembly with Trump earlier than his dialog with Putin on Monday morning.
On Sunday, Ukraine’s air power reported that Russia had launched a document variety of drones, together with Shahed assault drones, of which 88 have been intercepted and one other 128 went astray “with out damaging penalties”.
The strikes killed one particular person on the outskirts of Kyiv, and injured a minimum of three others, officers reported.
The earlier largest drone assault from Russia had taken place on the third anniversary of the full-scale invasion on 23 February, when Moscow launched 267 drones.
ReutersUkraine officers stated Saturday night time’s strikes confirmed Russia had no intention of stopping the warfare, regardless of worldwide stress for a ceasefire.
“For Russia, the negotiations [on Friday] in Istanbul are only a pretence. Putin needs warfare,” stated Andriy Yermak, a high aide to the Ukrainian president.
Volodymyr Zelensky was on the Vatican on Sunday the place he had a personal assembly with Pope Leo following the brand new pontiff’s inauguration mass. He additionally briefly met US Vice President JD Vance in Rome.
