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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a drone onslaught connected the Ukrainian metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, sidesplitting 3 radical and wounded 14, Ukrainian officials said Saturday, contempt agreeing to a constricted ceasefire.
Zaporizhzhia was deed by 12 drones, constabulary said. Regional caput Ivan Fedorov said that residential buildings, cars and communal buildings were acceptable connected occurrence successful the Friday nighttime attack. Photos showed exigency services scouring the rubble for survivors.
Ukraine and Russia agreed successful rule Wednesday to a constricted ceasefire aft U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with the countries’ leaders, though it remains to beryllium seen what imaginable targets would beryllium off-limits to attack.
The 3 sides appeared to clasp starkly antithetic views astir what the woody covered. While the White House said “energy and infrastructure” would beryllium portion of the agreement, the Kremlin declared that the statement referred much narrowly to “energy infrastructure.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said helium would besides similar railways and ports to beryllium protected.
The dormant successful Zaporizhzhia were 3 members of 1 family. The bodies of the girl and begetter were pulled retired from nether the rubble portion doctors unsuccessfully fought for the mother’s beingness for much than 10 hours, Fedorov wrote connected the Telegram messaging app.
The Ukrainian aerial unit reported that Russia fired a full of 179 drones and decoys successful the latest question of attacks overnight into Saturday. It said 100 were intercepted and a further 63 lost, apt having been electronically jammed.
Officials successful the Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions besides reported fires breaking retired owed to the falling debris from intercepted drones.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense, meanwhile, said its aerial defence systems changeable down 47 Ukrainian drones.
Local authorities said 2 radical were injured and determination was harm to six apartments erstwhile a Ukrainian drone deed a high-rise flat artifact successful the confederate Russian metropolis of Rostov-on-Don connected Friday night.
Zelenskyy told reporters aft Wednesday’s telephone with Trump that Ukraine and U.S. negotiators volition sermon method details related to the partial ceasefire during a gathering successful Saudi Arabia connected Monday. Russian negotiators are besides acceptable to clasp abstracted talks with U.S. officials there.
Zelenskyy emphasized that Ukraine is unfastened to a full, 30-day ceasefire that Trump has proposed, saying: “We volition not beryllium against immoderate format, immoderate steps toward unconditional ceasefire.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a implicit ceasefire conditional connected a halt of arms supplies to Kyiv and a suspension of Ukraine’s subject mobilization — demands rejected by Ukraine and its Western allies.
Kremlin spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Saturday that Ukraine was continuing with “treacherous attacks” connected vigor infrastructure facilities, and that Russia reserved the close to a “symmetrical” response.
Her comments came aft Russia accused Ukrainian forces Friday of blowing up a state metering presumption adjacent the municipality of Sudzha successful Russia’s Kursk region. Ukraine’s subject General Staff rejected Moscow’s accusations and blamed the Russian subject for shelling the presumption arsenic portion of Russia’s “discrediting campaign.”
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