At least seven people were then killed Russia Started a trace of drones over Ukraine Overnight on Sunday, according to the local Ukrainian officials and emergency services.
The attack on the Ukrainian capital occurred to the ceasefire negotiations in Saudi Arabia, in which Ukraine and Russia indirect US amtons on Monday;
The Ukrainian delegation is expected to meet one day before the indirect conversations with US officials in Saudi Arabia, said Ukrainian President Voldoyr Zelenskyy. Ukraine plans to send technical teams to discuss the details of the partial ceasefire.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia started 147 drones throughout Ukraine. The Ukrainian air defenses did not achieve 97 and 25 others due to the Ukrainian countermeasures. The attacks met the regions of Kharkiv, Sumy, Tschernihiv, Odesa and Donetsk as well as the capital Kyiv.
Three people, including a 5-year-old child, were killed and ten more were injured in a drone attack on Kyiv, said the city’s military administration. In the early morning hours of the night, expanded explosion noises in the Ukrainian capital were heard in the Ukrainian capital when the air raid flourished for over five hours. Russian drones and debris of shooting drones that fly at lower heights to avoid air defenses fell on residential buildings.
The Ukrainians at the crime scene of the attacks in Kyiv surveyed the damage that was done on their houses and neighborhoods on Sunday morning. Many took off the upcoming ceasefire talks and pointed out the burned -out houses that were destroyed in the drone attack, and said that this was more of a point of the true intentions of Russia.
Get national news
For messages that influence Canada and all over the world, register notifications for Breaking News that will be delivered directly when you enter.
In an old multi -storey building on the left bank of Kyiv, which was damaged in the overnight attack, Dmytro Zapadnya, 37, said no trust in Russia in which a ceasefire contract was maintained.
“It makes no sense to sign something (with Russians), because it will not be worth the cost of paper in which you place this signature. Well, the only thing that is not very pleasant is that the United States now seem to have little understanding of our situation,” he said.
Elsewhere, four people were killed in Russian attacks on the Ukrainian Donetsk region, said regional governor Vadym Filashkin, including three who died in a strike in the Ukrainian city of Dobropillya.
In a statement on social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said attacks like that in Kyiv were a daily event for Ukraine.
“This week alone, more than 1,580 air bombs, almost 1,100 strike drones and 15 rockets of different types were used against our people,” he said. “New solutions are required to stop these two strikes and this war with new pressure on Moscow.”
The Defense Ministry of Russia also announced on Sunday that it had dropped 59 Ukrainian drones over the night, including 29 in the Rostov region and 20 more across the southwest of Astrakhan. A person was killed in Rostov and a car caught fire due to the Ukrainian drone attack, as the temporary governor of the region, Yuri Slyusar.
A woman also died in the Russian border village of Novostroyevka-Pervaya in the Belgorodic region when a Ukrainian drone met a car with which she was on the road.
The driver, the woman’s daughter, was also seriously injured in the attack, said local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
The Associated Press journalist, Bela Szandelszky, contributed.
& copy the Canadian press in 2025
