Russia launched a drone attack on the Ukrainian Zaporizhia City, killing three people and injured 12, according to Ukrainian officials on Saturday, they said Saturday, Despite accepting a cessation of limited fire.
Police said Zaporizhzhia was hit by 12 drones. The regional manager, Ivan Fedorov, said that residential buildings, cars and communal buildings were burned down on Friday night’s attack. Photos showing emergency services that go around the rubble for survivors.
Ukraine and Russia early Wednesday coincided with a limited cessation cessation after the President of the United States, Donald Trump, spoke to the leaders of the countries, although there is still to see what possible goals would be out -of -limit to attack.
The three parts seem to have a widely different view on what the agreement addressed. Although the White House said that « energy and infrastructure » would be part of the agreement, Kremlin stated that the agreement was more closely referring to « energy infrastructure ». Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would also like to protect railways and ports.
The dead in Zaporizhzhia were three members of a family. The daughter and father’s bodies were extracted under the rubble while doctors were unsuccessful during the mother’s life for more than 10 hours, Fedorov wrote to the Telegram messaging application.
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The Ukraine Air Force reported that Russia shot a total of 179 drones and decorations in the last wave of attacks overnight during Saturday. He said 100 were intercepted and that 63 lost, they had probably been electronically blocked.
Officials of the Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions also denounced fires due to the fall of the debris of the intercepted drones.
In the meantime, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that its air defense systems decreased 47 Ukrainian drones.
Local authorities said that two people were injured and there was damage to six apartments when a Ukrainian drone collided with a high-height apartment block in the Russian city of South Rostov-on-Don on Friday night.
Zelenskyy told journalists after Wednesday’s call with Trump that Ukraine and North -American negotiators will discuss technical details on Monday partial cessation during a meeting in Saudi Arabia. Russian negotiators are also planned to have separate conversations with North -Americans.
Zelenskyy emphasized that Ukraine is open to a complete 30 -day cessation that Trump has proposed, saying: « We will not be against any format, no step towards unconditional cessation. »
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has made a dismissed cessation conditioned on the arrest of weapons supplies to Kiev and a suspension of Ukraine’s military mobilization: demands rejected by Ukraine and his western allies.
Kremlin spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday that Ukraine continued with « treacherous attacks » at energy infrastructure facilities, and that Russia reserved the right to a « symmetrical » response.
His comments came after Russia accused the Ukrainian forces on Friday for flying a gas measurement station near the city of Southzha in the Kursk Russian region. Ukraine’s military general staff rejected Moscow’s allegations and blamed the Russian army to shake the station as part of Russia’s « discreditation campaign ».
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