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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drone and rocket attacks connected Ukraine connected Saturday killed astatine slightest 2 people, including a 9-year-old girl, officials said, arsenic uncertainty remains astir whether Kyiv diplomats volition be a caller circular of bid talks projected by Moscow for aboriginal adjacent week successful Istanbul.
Russian troops launched immoderate 109 drones and 5 missiles crossed Ukraine overnight and into Saturday, the Ukrainian aerial unit said. Three of the missiles and 42 drones were destroyed and different 30 drones failed to scope their targets without causing damage, it said.
The miss was killed successful a onslaught connected the front-line colony of Dolynka successful the Zaporizhzhia region, and a 16-year-old was injured, Zaporizhzhia’s Gov. Ivan Fedorov said.
“One location was destroyed. The shockwave from the blast besides damaged respective different houses, cars, and outbuildings,” Fedorov wrote connected Telegram.
A antheral was killed by Russian shelling successful Ukraine's Kherson region, Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin wrote connected Telegram.
Moscow did not remark connected either attack.
Russia's Ministry of Defense said Saturday that it had gained power of the Ukrainian colony of Novopil successful the Donetsk region, and took the colony of Vodolahy successful the bluish Sumy region. Ukrainian authorities successful Sumy ordered mandatory evacuations successful 11 much settlements arsenic Russian forces marque dependable gains successful the area.
The caller additions bring the full fig of settlements nether evacuation orders successful Sumy, which borders Russia’s Kursk region, to 213.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said immoderate 50,000 Russian troops person amassed successful the country with the volition of launching an violative to carve retired a buffer portion wrong Ukrainian territory.
Speaking Saturday, Ukraine’s apical service main Oleksandr Syrskyi said that Russian forces were focusing their main violative efforts connected Pokrovsk, Toretsk and Lyman successful the Donetsk region, arsenic good arsenic the Sumy borderline area.
Syrskyi besides said Ukrainian forces are inactive holding territory successful Russia’s Kursk region, a connection that Moscow has repeatedly denied. Russia said connected April 26 that it had pushed each Ukrainian troops from the Kursk portion aft Ukrainian troops seized onshore determination during a astonishment incursion successful August 2024. “The force is holding its champion units here,” Syrskyi said referring to Kursk, “which it planned to usage successful the east.”
Elsewhere, 14 radical were injured including 4 children aft Ukrainian drones struck flat buildings Saturday successful the Russian municipality of Rylsk and the colony of Artakovo successful the occidental Kursk region, section acting Gov. Alexander Khinshtein said.
Peace speech uncertainty
Andrii Yermak, a apical advisor to Zelenskyy, said Friday that Kyiv was acceptable to resume nonstop bid talks with Russia successful Istanbul connected Monday but that the Kremlin should archetypal supply a promised memorandum mounting retired its presumption connected ending the much than three-year war.
Zelenskyy said Friday that Russia was “undermining diplomacy” by withholding the document.
“For immoderate reason, the Russians are concealing this document. This is an perfectly bizarre position. There is nary clarity astir the format,” Zelenskyy wrote connected Telegram.
Moscow antecedently said it would stock its memorandum during the talks.
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