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Residents inspect their homes after Russian Drons on Saturday night on the suburbs outside Kiev

Ukraine says Russia has launched its biggest unmanned attack because it started full of invasion, aiming at a few regions, including Kiev, where one woman died.

The barrage arrived only the day before Predicted call between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The American president referred a truce.

Russia and Ukraine held their first conversations with a face to face for more than three years on Friday in Turkey, agreeing in the new replacement of prisoners, but a little other.

Ukraine The aviation power said Russia has launched 273 drone until 08:00 on Sunday (05:00 GMT) targeting the central Kiev region, and Dnipropetrovsk and the Donetsk region in the east.

It was said that 88 drones were intercepted, and another 128 wandered “without negative consequences.”

The strikes killed one person in Obukhiv County in the Kiev region, and they hurt at least three others – one of whom was a four year old – reported officials.

The previous largest unmanned attack from Russia occurred on the third anniversary of full invasion 23. February, when Moscow launched 267 drones.

The Russian army said she intercepted 25 Ukrainian drones overnight and on Sunday morning.

The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sunday that he and Leaders of Great Britain, France and Poland had a virtual meeting with Trump before talking to Putin Monday morning.

The four leaders jointly visited Ukraine two weeks ago in the spear calls on a 30-day fire, supported so-called “coalition of willing”.

Ukrainian intelligence agency said that Russia could plan to perform “training and fight” launching an intercontinental ballistic rocket overnight, as an attempt to intimidate.

Russia did not answer the request.

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Firefighters on a place outside Kiev which are affected on Sunday morning

Ukrainian officials said that on Saturday evening, they showed that Russia had no intention of stopping war, despite international pressure for truce.

“Negotiations are negotiations (on Friday) in Istanbul only pretense. Putin wants war,” Andriy Yermak said, a top assistant in the Ukrainian president.

After talking to Turkey, Trump suggested that there would be no progress towards peace until he and Putin meet face to face.

The US president proposed a 30-day break-up agreement and threatened stronger sanctions if Russia did not hold.

Ukrainian President Zelensky said he was willing to accept a proposal for the immediate and unconditional ceasefire.

But Russia will only agree to break in a fight if military stocks in Ukraine stop.

Putin also said that any negotiations must include discussions on the cause of the war. Russian terms include Ukraine become a neutral country, section the size of their army and leaving their NATO membership ambitions – the conditions that Ukraine rejected as a capitulation in Ukraine.

Moscow now controls approximately 20% of the territory of Ukraine, including the Southern Crimea peninsula that came illegally in 2014. years.

Zelensky was in the Vatican on Sunday where he had a private meeting with Pope Leo After the new auuraculation of Pontif. He also briefly met Vice President JD Vance in Rome.

The Ukrainian leader said that they discussed the delegation of the “low level” Putin sent to Turkey, “the need for sanctions against Russia” and how to achieve peace.

2025-05-18 17:19:00

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