At least 14 people were killed and 30 people were injured, including five children, in the nightly Russian rocket and drone attacks on the eastern city of Dobropillia in Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior.
On Saturday, the ministry said Russian troops attacked the city with ballistic rockets, several rockets and drones, which damaged buildings and cars with multiple floors.
The attacks came days before conversations in Saudi Aarabia between the American and Ukrainian negotiators aimed at a truce.
Three people were killed separately at a drone attack and seven others were injured early on Saturday in the city of Bohodukhiv, said Kharkiv region of military head Oleg Synegubov.
The nocturnal air strikes come after the US President Donald Trump threatened new sanctions and rates for Russia, but said it might be “easier” to work with Moscow than Kiev on efforts to end the three -year war.
According to the Ukrainian officials, five children were among the dead in the city of Dobropillia. ((AFP: National Police of Ukraine))
After Mr Trump publicly condemned the Ukrainian leader Volodyymyr Zenskyy during a meeting of the White House and the American aid to Kiev suspended in a declared bid to encourage diplomacy, the American president told reporters that he trusted Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“To be honest, I find it harder to deal with Ukraine and they don’t have the cards,” said Mr. Trump.
“It can be easier to deal with Russia.”
The comments followed Mr Trump earlier on Friday and threatened new sanctions and rates for Russia because of the bombing of Ukraine – his warning came only a few hours after Moscow launched a “massive” drone and rocket attack on Ukrainian energy facilities.
Ukraine ‘interested in peace’
Volodyymyr Zenskyy had a words war with Donald Trump when they met in the US last month. ((Reuters: Brian Snyder))
Mr. Zenskyy is thanks to the country in Saudi Arabia on Monday for conversations with crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.
The meeting will take place a day before Ukrainian officers are expected to have new conversations with their American counterparts in the Kingdom.
After a meeting with Prince Mohammed, Mr. Zensky said that his team “would stay in Saudi Arabia to work with our American partners”.
“Ukraine is the most interested in peace,” he added.
Earlier on Friday he renewed calls for a mutual stopping of air strikes on critical infrastructure after the recent Russian barrage.
The Ukrainian leader said the first steps to establish real peace, both the Russian and the Ukrainian air and navy attacks should stop.
This newest proposal builds on the growing rhetoric from Kiev, Washington and Moscow about stopping the war.
The Kremlin has previously ceases a temporary -the fire in Ukraine.
The Ministry of Defense of Moscow said on Saturday that her air defense systems destroyed 31 Ukrainian drones last night, with most of the territory of Krasnodar Krai.
A Ukrainian drone attack was also aimed at the Russian oil refinery Kirishi, with air defense forces that shoot one drone on approaching and another over the territory of the facility,
Leningrad -Governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said that the “external structure of one of the reservoirs was damaged by falling debris”.
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A citizen was injured by a drone attack in the Belgorod district near the border, Belgorod -Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov on Telegram.
The last collisions came after EU leaders, shaken by the prospect of our withdrawal, agreed to stimulate the defense of the block.
Washington, however, said that conversations with Kyiv about securing a cease -the fire with Moscow are back on track after the audience fails between Mr Trump and the Lord Zenskyy.
The American envoy Steve Witkoff said that he would talk to Ukrainian negotiators about a “first -the Fires” with Russia and a “framework” for a longer agreement in the conversations in Saudi Aarabia.
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