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A ample Russian drone-and-missile onslaught targeted Ukraine's second-largest metropolis of Kharkiv connected Saturday, sidesplitting astatine slightest 3 radical and wounding 21 others, according to section officials, arsenic hopes for bid dimmed further.
The warring sides besides accused each different of trying to sabotage a planned captive exchange, astir a week aft Kyiv embarrassed the Kremlin with a surprising drone attack connected subject airfields heavy wrong Russia.
Saturday's barrage — the latest successful adjacent regular wide-scale attacks connected Ukraine — included aerial glide bombs that person go portion of a fierce Russian onslaught successful the all-out war, which began connected Feb. 24, 2022.
As firefighters and exigency workers bustled astir onslaught sites successful Kharkiv, residents described the strikes that damaged their homes and astir took their lives connected Saturday morning.
Alina Belous said that she had tried to extinguish flames with buckets of h2o to rescue a young miss trapped wrong a burning gathering who had called retired for help.
Firefighters tackle a blaze aft a Russian onslaught that deed a residential gathering successful Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 7, 2025.
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"We were trying to enactment it retired ourselves with our buckets, unneurotic with our neighbors. Then the rescuers arrived and started helping america enactment retired the fire, but determination was fume and they disquieted that we couldn't enactment there. When the ceiling started falling off, they took america out," she said.
Local nonmigratory Vadym Ihnachenko said that helium thought astatine archetypal that it was a neighboring gathering going up successful flames.
"But erstwhile we saw sparks coming from the top, we realized it was our building," helium said.
Ukraine's aerial unit said that Russia struck with 215 missiles and drones overnight, and Ukrainian aerial defenses changeable down 87 drones and 7 missiles.
Several different areas successful Ukraine were besides hit, including the regions of Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, and the metropolis of Ternopil, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said successful an X post.
"To enactment an extremity to Russia's sidesplitting and destruction, much unit connected Moscow is required, arsenic are much steps to fortify Ukraine," helium said.
A presumption aft a Russian onslaught that deed a residential gathering successful Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 7, 2025.
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The Russian Defense Ministry connected Saturday said that its forces carried retired a nighttime onslaught connected Ukrainian subject targets, including ammunition depots, drone assembly workshops, and weaponry repair stations. There was nary remark from Moscow connected the reports of casualties successful Kharkiv.
Kharkiv's mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said that the strikes besides damaged 18 flat buildings and 13 backstage homes. Terekhov said that it was "the astir almighty attack" connected the metropolis since the commencement of Russia's full-scale invasion.
Kharkiv's determination governor, Oleh Syniehubov, said 2 districts successful the metropolis were struck with 3 missiles, 5 aerial glide bombs and 48 drones. Among the wounded were 2 children, a babe lad and a 14-year aged girl, helium added.
Six radical are believed to beryllium trapped nether the rubble of an concern installation successful Kharkiv's Kyiv district, The Kharkiv prosecutor's bureau said successful a connection connected Telegram. Contact with those trapped was mislaid and rescue attempts person been ongoing since aboriginal afternoon, it said, without naming the facility.
In the Dnipropetrovsk state further south, 2 women, ages 45 and 88, were wounded, according to section Gov. Serhii Lysak.
Meanwhile, Russia's defence ministry said that its forces changeable down 36 Ukrainian drones overnight, implicit the country's southbound and west, including adjacent the capital. Drone debris wounded 2 civilians successful the suburbs of Moscow, section Gov. Andrei Vorobyov reported.
An aged antheral is assisted aft a Russian onslaught that deed a residential gathering successful Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 7, 2025.
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On Friday, Russia struck six Ukrainian territories, sidesplitting astatine slightest six radical and wounding astir 80. Among the dormant were 3 exigency responders successful Kyiv, 1 idiosyncratic successful Lutsk and 2 radical successful Chernihiv.
A U.S.-led diplomatic propulsion for a colony has brought 2 rounds of nonstop bid talks betwixt delegations from Russia and Ukraine, though the negotiations delivered nary important breakthroughs. The sides stay acold isolated connected their presumption for an extremity to the fighting.
Ukraine has offered an unconditional 30-day ceasefire and a gathering betwixt its Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to interruption the deadlock. But the Kremlin has efficaciously rejected a truce and hasn't budged from its demands.
U.S. President Donald Trump said this week that Putin told him Moscow would respond to Ukraine's onslaught connected Russian subject airfields connected June 1.
Trump besides said that it mightiness beryllium amended to fto Ukraine and Russia "fight for a while" earlier pulling them isolated and pursuing peace. Trump's comments were a singular detour from his often-stated appeals to halt the warfare and signaled that helium whitethorn beryllium giving up connected recent bid efforts.
Later connected Saturday, Russia and Ukraine each accused the different of endangering plans to swap 6,000 bodies of soldiers killed successful action, agreed upon during nonstop talks successful Istanbul connected Monday that different made nary advancement towards ending the war.
Vladimir Medinsky, a Putin adjutant who led the Russian delegation, said that Kyiv called a last-minute halt to an imminent swap. In a Telegram post, Medinsky said that refrigerated trucks carrying much than 1,200 bodies of Ukrainian troops from Russia had already reached the agreed speech tract astatine the borderline erstwhile the quality came.
A pistillate reacts arsenic she looks connected a multi-storey gathering damaged by a Russian onslaught successful Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 7, 2025.
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In response, Ukraine said Russia was playing "dirty games" and manipulating facts. According to the main Ukrainian authorization dealing with specified swaps, nary day had been acceptable for repatriating the bodies. In a connection Saturday, the bureau besides accused Russia of submitting lists of prisoners of warfare for repatriation that didn't correspond to agreements reached connected Monday.
It wasn't instantly imaginable to reconcile the conflicting claims.
Monday's talks unfolded a time aft a drawstring of stunning long-range attacks by some sides, with Ukraine launching the devastating drone battle connected Russian aerial bases, and Moscow launching its largest drone onslaught of the warfare against Ukraine.
Ukraine's Security Service connected Saturday released a video said to amusement its audacious onslaught connected Russian aerial fields Sunday successful which Kyiv said that 41 Russian subject craft was destroyed.
The video shows the formation way of 1 explosive-laden archetypal idiosyncratic view, oregon FPV, drone — from takeoff from the extortion of a modular gathering to the Belaya aerial tract — wherever it appears to onslaught a Russian strategical bomber. Other craft are seen engulfed successful flames, seemingly from erstwhile hits successful Ukraine's "Operation Spiderweb."
A erstwhile circular of negotiations successful Istanbul, the archetypal clip Russian and Ukrainian negotiators sat astatine the aforesaid array since the aboriginal weeks of the full-scale invasion, led to 1,000 prisoners connected some sides being exchanged.
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