Kyiv, Ukraine (AP) – Russia launched an assault on drones and air strikes across Ukraine on Sunday until Sunday, killing at least four people, said officials, after us President Donald Trump has cast a doubt On the will of the Russian president Vladimir Putin to end the war.
Three people died and four were injured on Sunday morning on air strikes on Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region, the regional prosecutor’s office said. Another person died and a 14 -year -old girl was injured in a drone attack on the city of Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region, which was struck for the third consecutive night, said local governor Serhii Lysak.
The attacks occurred a few hours after Russia claimed to have regained control of the remaining parts of the Kursk region, That the Ukrainian forces seized in a surprise foray last August. Ukrainian officials said that Kursk fights were still underway.
Asset said on Saturday that he doubts Poutine wants to end over three years War in Ukraineexpressing a new skepticism that a peace agreement can be contacted soon. One day earlier, Trump said Ukraine and Russia were ” Very close to an agreement. “”
“There was no reason for Putin to draw missiles in civil zones, cities and cities, in recent days,” wrote Trump in a social media position when he returned to the United States after attending the funeral of Pope Francis to the Vatican, where he briefly met the Ukrainian President Volodyr Zelenskyy. Trump also referred to new sanctions against Russia.
The Trump-Zelenskyy conversation on the touch of the pope’s funeral was the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders since they argued during a Heated oval office meeting At the White House at the end of February.
Russia pulled 149 explosive drones and lures in the last wave of attacks, said Ukrainian Air Force, adding that 57 were intercepted and 67 others.
One person was injured in drone attacks against the Odesa region and another in the city of Zhytomyr. Four people were injured in a Russian air strike in the city of Kherson on Sunday morning.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that the air defenses have shot down five Ukrainian drones in the border region of Bryansk, as well as three drones on the Crimea Peninsula, which was illegally Annexed by Russia in 2014.
Five people were injured when Ukrainian forces bombed the city of Horlivka in the partially occupied region of Donetsk, said the Russian mayor of the city, Ivan Prikhodko.
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