At least seven people died after Russia launched a drone barrier Ukraine Diverance Sunday, according to Ukrainian local officials and emergency services.
The attack on the Ukrainian capital was ahead of the cessation negotiations in Saudi Arabia, which is expected to have Ukraine and Russia, maintain indirect conversations mediated by the United States Monday to discuss a long -range attacks pause aimed at energy facilities and civil infrastructure.
The Ukrainian delegation is expected to meet with North -Americans in Saudi Arabia one day before indirect talks, said Ukrainian President Voldoymyr Zelenskyy. Ukraine plans to send technical equipment to discuss partial cessation details.
Russia launched 147 drones in Ukraine, according to Ukraine Air Force. Ukrainian aerial defenses decreased 97 and 25 more people did not reach goals due to Ukrainian countermen. The attacks struck the regions of Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Odesa and Donetsk, as well as the capital, Kiev.
Three people, including a 5 -year -old boy, died and ten were injured in a Drone attack in Kiev, according to the city’s military administration. Extensive sounds of explosions were heard throughout the Ukrainian capital in the early hours of the night, while the air attack exploded for more than five hours. The russian drones and debris of fired drones, flying at lower altitudes to evade air defenses, fell into residential buildings.
The Ukrainians at the site of Kiev attacks surveyed the damage caused to their homes and neighborhoods on Sunday morning. Many disgusted from the upcoming fire conversations, pointing to the burned houses destroyed in the Drone attack, saying that they were more indicative of Russia’s true intentions.
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In an old Multistory building on Kiev’s left bank that was damaged in the night attack, Dmytro Zapadna, 37, said he had no faith in Russia to defend any cessation agreement.
« It makes no sense to sign anything (with Russians), because it will not be worth the cost of the paper where you put this signature. Well, the only thing that is not very pleasant is that the United States now seems to understand little about our situation, » he said.
Any other place, four people were killed in Russian attacks in the Ukraine Donetsk region, said the regional government Vadym Filashkin, including three who died on a strike in the Ukrainian city of First Line in Dobropillya.
In a statement on social media, Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that attacks like Kyiv’s were a daily event for Ukraine.
« This week alone, more than 1,580 guided aerial bombs were used, almost 1,100 strike drones, and 15 mísils of various types were used against our people, » he said. « New solutions are needed, with a new pressure on Moscow to stop these strikes and this war. »
On Sunday, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that he had diminished 59 Ukrainian drones during the night, including 29 over the Rostov region and 20 more on the south -Astrakhan. In Rostov, a person died and a car burned down -due to a Ukrainian drone attack, according to the temporary governor of the area, Yuri Slyusa.
A woman also died in the village of Russian borders of Novostroyevka-Pervaaya in the Belgorod region when a Ukrainian drone collided with a car where he was traveling.
The driver, the woman’s daughter, was also seriously injured in the attack, said local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
Associated Press journalist Bela Szandelszky contributed.
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