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A Ukrainian kid has been killed aft a Russian rocket attack, arsenic Moscow claims to person captured 2 villages successful Ukraine.
Russian troops launched immoderate 109 drones and 5 missiles crossed Ukraine overnight connected Friday and into Saturday, the Ukrainian aerial unit said.
A nine-year-old miss was killed by the onslaught connected the front-line colony of Dolynka successful the Zaporizhzhia region. A 16-year-old was besides injured, Zaporizhzhia's governor, Ivan Fedorov, said.
He said "shockwaves" from the blast besides damaged houses, cars and outbuildings.
The aerial unit said 3 of the missiles and 42 drones were destroyed by aerial defences, portion different 30 drones failed to scope their targets without causing damage.
Meanwhile, 14 radical were injured, including 4 children, aft Ukrainian drones struck flat buildings successful the Russian municipality of Rylsk and the colony of Artakovo successful the occidental Kursk region, section acting politician Alexander Khinshtein said.
It comes arsenic Russian forces person reportedly captured 2 villages successful Ukraine's Donetsk and Sumy regions.
Russian authorities quality bureau RIA reported that Novopil successful the eastbound Donetsk portion and Vodolagy successful the northeastern Sumy portion were captured connected Saturday, citing the Russian defence ministry.
Sky News could not independently verify the battlefield report.
Earlier this week, Moscow claimed to instrumentality aggregate different settlements successful the aforesaid 2 regions, arsenic good arsenic Stroivka successful Ukraine's Kharkiv region.
As a effect of Russian gains, Ukrainian authorities successful Sumy ordered mandatory evacuations successful 11 much settlements - bringing the full fig of settlements nether evacuation orders successful Sumy, which borders Russia's Kursk region, to 213.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said connected Friday immoderate 50,000 Russian troops had amassed successful the country with the volition of launching an violative to carve retired a buffer portion wrong Ukrainian territory.
Russia presently controls astir each of Ukraine's Luhansk region, much than 70% of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson and a tiny portion of the Kharkiv and Sumy regions.
The barrage of Russian aerial assaults has meant Ukraine's request for ammunition has go much urgent than ever.
Russia has offered Ukraine a second circular of bid talks connected 2 June successful Istanbul, Turkey.
Andrii Yermark, a apical advisor to Mr Zelenskyy, said Kyiv was acceptable to resume nonstop bid talks but that the Kremlin should supply a promised memorandum mounting retired its presumption connected ending the much than three-year war, earlier the 2 delegations beryllium down to negotiate.
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Mr Zelenskyy added that Russia was "undermining diplomacy" by withholding the document.
"For immoderate reason, the Russians are concealing this document. This is an perfectly bizarre position. There is nary clarity astir the format," helium wrote connected Telegram.
Moscow antecedently said it would stock its memorandum during the talks.
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