Russia launched on Sunday its biggest drone attack on Ukraine since the beginning of the war, destroying houses and killing at least one woman a day before the meeting of US President Donald Trump with Russian President Vladimir Putin about a ceasefire proposal.
The Ukrainian Intelligence Service also said Moscow intended to fire an intercontinental ballistic missile later this Sunday as an attempt to intimidate the West. There was no immediate response from Moscow to the prosecution.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky striving to restore ties with Washington after a disastrous White House visit in February, met Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Rome on Sunday, on the sidelines of Pope Leo. The Ukrainian media reported that the meeting lasted 40 minutes.
Ukraine and Russia held their first face-to-face conversations in more than three years on Friday (16), under Trump pressure to agree with a ceasefire in a war that he promised to end quickly. The sides at war agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners each, but did not reach an agreement for a truce, after Moscow presented conditions that a member of the Ukrainian delegation called “impossible.”
The leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Poland planned to talk to Trump before the US and Russian presidents pronounce on Monday, said Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Sunday.
The four European leaders visited Kiev together last week, where they asked Russia’s new sanctions, unless Moscow accepted a ceasefire, and Zelensky said they joined him to call Trump on Friday after negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
After a night of air alerts, the Ukraine Air Force reported that until 8 am on Sunday, Russia had launched 273 drones against Ukrainian cities, rather than the previous record set by Moscow in February on the third anniversary of the war.
“I could hear the drone”
In the ruins of his family’s house in the Obukhiv region, west of Kiev, Natalia Piven, 44, told how she squeezed in a basement with her son after an air strike alert, well in time to survive the first wave of drones.
They then ran to an anti -aircraft shelter in a kindergarten, before another wave of drones approached the village. Their house was completely destroyed. A 28 -year -old woman, a resident next door, died. Ukrainian authorities said three other people were injured, including a four -year -old child.
“I can’t overcome that. I just can’t. I could listen clearly the drone flying toward my house,” Piven told Reuters.
Trump has changed the American rhetoric to support Ukraine to accept Moscow’s narrative about the war that Putin launched in 2022. But Kiev and his European allies are working hard to persuade Trump that it is Moscow who is keeping the truce now.
Zelensky stated that he would accept Trump’s proposal for an immediate ceasefire of at least 30 days without conditions. Moscow says he would consider a ceasefire, but only if the conditions were met, including the interruption of the supply of weapons to Kiev.
It also states that any peace negotiation should address the “deep causes” of the conflict, including the requirements that Ukraine Ceda territory is disarmed and accepts neutral status. Kiev considers this equivalent to a capitulation and claims he would be helpless in the face of future Russian attacks.
On Saturday, a Russian drone attack killed nine civilians after reaching a bus in the Sumy region in northeastern Ukraine, Kiev said. Zelensky classified the attack as “deliberate” and asked Moscow to be more severe, who claimed to have attacked a military installation.
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