Russia launched a wide assault of drones and air attacks in Ukraine, killing at least four people, authorities say, one day after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, he threw doubts about the will of Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the end.
According to a Facebook publication from the Office of the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor, Russia dropped three sliding pumps in the city, about 10 km (6 miles) from the front line, Sunday. Russian forces have approached him during the past year.
A couple, 47 and 48, were killed, along with a 78 -year -old pensioner, said the post, and 21 houses were damaged. The images of the scene showed a single -plant destroyed house and the shell of a burned car.
Another person died and a 14 -year -old girl was injured in a drone attack against the city of Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region, who was beaten for the third consecutive night, said Governor Serhii Lysak.
Russia also triggered 149 drones and explosive lures in the last wave of attacks, said the Ukraine Air Force, adding that 57 were intercepted and another 67 stuck.
A person was injured in attacks with unmanned airplanes in the Odesa region, and another in the city of Zhytomyr. Four people were injured in an air attack in Kherson City on Sunday morning, according to local officials.
The attacks occurred hours after Putin said that the Russian forces had regained control over the traninals of the Kursk region, that the Ukrainian forces confiscated in a surprise incursion last August. Ukrainian officials insisted that the fight in Kursk continued.
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Trump said Saturday that he doubts that Putin wants to end the war for more than a year in Ukraine, expressing skepticism that a peace agreement can soon be reached. Only one day before, Trump had said that Ukraine and Russia were “very close to an agreement.”
Duration The presidential campaign, Trump often boasted that the war could end in 24 hours, but reality has proven to be more difficult.
“There was no reason for Putin to shoot missiles to civil areas, cities and towns, in recent days,” Trump wrote in a publication on social networks when he flew back to the United States after attending the funeral of Pope Francis in the Vatican, where he briefly met the Ukrainian President VolodymyRyy Zelenskyy. Trump also hinted more sanctions against Russia.
The Trump-Inzelskyy conversation outside the Pope’s funeral was the first face-to-to-face encounter between the two leaders, since they argued a meeting of the oval office at the White House at the end of February.
The two leaders, inclined with each other without assistants around them while sitting in the Basilica of San Pedro, spoke for about 15 minutes, according to the Zensky office and images of the meeting published by kyiv and Washington.
Zenskyy said the meeting could be historical if it offers the type of peace you expect, and a White House spokesman called it “very productive.”
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, said on Sunday that a peace agreement must occur soon and that Washington is trying to determine that it is worth continuing to serve as a mediator.
“We must constantly dedicate time and resources to this effort if you are not going to reach Fruity,” Rubio told NBC’s Meet The Press Program.
“The last week has really been to discover how close these sides are really, and they are close enough for this to deserve a continuous investment of our time as a mediator,” he added.
Suspicious in the attack of car pump
Separately, on Sunday, Russian researchers presented terrorism charges against a man likely to kill a superior Russian military officer near Moscow, the Interfax news agency reported.
The Kremlin has blamed kyiv for the explosion of the Friday automobile bomb that killed Yaroslav Moscow, Moskalik, 59, the last of a series of Russian military officers and figures in favor of the war that will be killed from the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine has not commented on the incident.
Interfax, citing Russia’s Research Committee, said the suspect, Ignat Kuzin, who used to live in Ukraine, had declared himself guilty of killing Moscalik and said he was recruited and paid by Ukraine security services.
Moskalik, who was deputy director of the main operations Department of the General Staff of Russia, was killed on Friday in the city of Balashikha, hours before Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff had to have conversations with Putin in Moscow.
The Investigation Committee said that the Russian authorities tried to identify others who could have been involved in Moskalik’s murder.