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An overnight Ukrainian drone onslaught connected an lipid depot adjacent Russia’s Black Sea edifice of Sochi sparked a large fire, Russian officials said Sunday, arsenic the 2 countries traded strikes and the Ukrainian president announced a captive exchange.
More than 120 firefighters attempted to extinguish the blaze, sparked aft debris from a downed drone struck a substance tank, Krasnodar determination Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev said connected Telegram. Videos connected societal media appeared to amusement immense pillars of fume billowing supra the lipid depot.
Russia’s civilian aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, temporarily stopped flights astatine Sochi’s airport.
Further north, authorities successful the Voronezh portion reported that 4 radical were wounded successful different Ukrainian drone strike.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its aerial defenses changeable down 93 Ukrainian drones implicit Russia and the Black Sea overnight into Sunday.
Meanwhile, successful confederate Ukraine, a Russian rocket onslaught deed a residential country successful the metropolis of Mykolaiv, according to the State Emergency Services, wounding 7 people.
The Ukrainian aerial unit said Sunday Russia launched 76 drones and 7 missiles against Ukraine. It said 60 drones and 1 rocket were intercepted, but 16 others and six missiles deed targets crossed 8 locations.
The reciprocal attacks came astatine the extremity of 1 of the deadliest weeks successful Ukraine successful caller months, aft a Russian drone and rocket onslaught connected Thursday killed 31 people, including 5 children, and wounded implicit 150.
The continued attacks travel aft U.S. President Donald Trump gave connected Tuesday Russian President Vladimir Putin a shorter deadline — Aug. 8 — for bid efforts to marque progress.
Trump said Thursday that peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff is heading to Russia to propulsion Moscow to hold to a ceasefire successful its warfare with Ukraine and has threatened caller economical sanctions if advancement is not made.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Ukraine and Russia person agreed to speech 1,200 prisoners pursuing their latest circular of negotiations successful Istanbul successful July.
“There is an statement to speech 1,200 people," helium wrote connected X, saying that the lists of individuals to beryllium swapped were being worked connected and that they were moving to “unblock the instrumentality of our civilians.”
There was nary contiguous remark from Russia.
Zelenskyy besides said helium discussed with apical Ukrainian officials “the dialog way – specifically, the implementation of the agreements reached during the meetings with the Russian broadside successful Istanbul, arsenic good arsenic preparations for a caller meeting.”
Each of the 3 rounds of talks betwixt the countries this twelvemonth has resulted successful captive exchanges but yielded nary breakthrough successful reaching a ceasefire.
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