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Russian forces launched a barrage of 367 drones and missiles astatine Ukrainian cities overnight, including the superior Kyiv, successful the largest aerial onslaught of the warfare truthful far, sidesplitting astatine slightest 12 radical and injuring dozens more, officials said.
The dormant included 3 children successful the bluish portion of Zhytomyr, section officials determination said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called connected the United States, which has taken a softer nationalist enactment connected Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin, since President Donald Trump took office, to talk out.
"The soundlessness of America, the soundlessness of others successful the satellite lone encourages Putin," helium wrote connected Telegram.
Overnight, Russia launched its largest aerial battle connected Ukraine since the warfare started. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
"Every specified violent Russian onslaught is crushed capable for caller sanctions against Russia."
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said 12 radical had been killed and 60 much wounded. Earlier decease tolls fixed separately by determination authorities and rescuers had enactment the fig of dormant astatine 13.
"This was a combined, ruthless onslaught aimed astatine civilians. The force erstwhile again showed that its extremity is fearfulness and death," helium wrote connected Telegram.
The battle comes arsenic Ukraine and Russia hole to behaviour the 3rd and last time of a captive swap successful which some sides volition speech a full of 1000 radical each.
U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg said connected Sunday the onslaught was "a wide violation" of the 1977 Geneva Peace Protocols and called for an contiguous ceasefire.
Some 347 drones and missiles were reportedly utilized successful the attack. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)
Ceasefire Efforts
Ukraine and its European allies person sought to propulsion Moscow into signing a 30-day ceasefire arsenic a archetypal measurement to negotiating an extremity to the three-year war.
Their efforts suffered a stroke earlier this week erstwhile Trump declined to spot further sanctions connected Moscow for not agreeing to an contiguous intermission successful fighting, arsenic Kyiv had wanted.
Ukraine's aerial unit said Russia had launched 298 drones and 69 missiles successful its overnight assault, though it said it was capable to down 266 drones and 45 missiles.
Damage extended to a drawstring of determination centers, including Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, arsenic good arsenic Mykolaiv successful the southbound and Ternopil successful the west.
In Kyiv, Tymur Tkachenko, caput of the city's subject administration, said 11 radical were injured successful drone strikes. No deaths were reported successful the capital, though 4 were killed successful the portion astir the city, according to officials.
This was the 2nd ample aerial onslaught successful 2 days. On Friday evening, Russia launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles astatine Kyiv successful waves that continued done the night.
In northeastern Ukraine, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said aboriginal connected Sunday that drones deed 3 metropolis districts and injured 3 people. Blasts shattered windows successful high-rise flat blocks.
Strikes were reported successful Kyiv, Kharkiv, and different cities. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)
Drone strikes killed a 77-year-old antheral and injured 5 radical successful the confederate metropolis of Mykolaiv, the determination politician said. He published a representation of a residential flat artifact with a ample spread from an detonation and rubble scattered implicit the ground.
In the occidental portion of Khmelnytskyi, galore hundreds of kilometers distant from the frontlines of fighting, 4 radical were killed, and 5 others wounded, according to the governor.
"Without pressure, thing volition alteration and Russia and its allies volition lone physique up forces for specified murders successful Western countries," the Ukrainian president's main of unit Andriy Yermak wrote connected Telegram.
"Moscow volition combat arsenic agelong arsenic it has the quality to nutrient weapons."
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Russia's Defence Ministry reported that its aerial defence units had intercepted oregon destroyed 95 Ukrainian drones implicit a four-hour period. The Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, said 12 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted connected their mode to the capital.
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