Amid Stalled Bid for Peace Talks, Russia Pounds Ukraine
It was the second massive assault in three days, as the Kremlin rebuffed peace talks sought by Ukraine and the United States.
Russia unleashed a barrage of nearly 600 drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight into Saturday, according to Ukrainian officials. It was the second large-scale aerial attack in three days, after a lull earlier this month as President Trump tried to arrange peace talks.
The assault hit cities across the country, from Lutsk in the west to Zaporizhzhia in the southeast, where a strike on a residential building killed one person and injured 24 more, according to Ukrainian officials. Images released on social media by Ukraine’s emergency services in Zaporizhzhia showed firefighters battling flames engulfing brick buildings, some of them mostly reduced to rubble.
The attack occurred just two days after a similarly large wave of strikes on Kyiv, the capital, killed 25 people, according to Ukrainian officials, and damaged buildings used by the European Union and the British government.
In another grim development, a former speaker of Ukraine’s Parliament, Andrii Parubiy, was shot dead on Saturday in the Western city of Lviv, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky described as a “horrendous murder.”
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