Russia launches massive drone strikes and attacks on Ukraine during political talks
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Russia is sending a massive drone strike to Ukraine overnight Saturday, after us and Ukrainian officials said they would meet for a day of informal talks on ending the nearly four-year war.
The latest round of attacks came as Donald Trump’s advisers and Ukrainian officials said they would meet on Saturday, after progress was made in securing an agreement on Ukraine’s security framework for The Ourwar Ukraine.
Following talks that progressed on Ukraine’s post-war security framework, the two sides also offered a sobering assessment that any “real progress towards any agreement” would ultimately inform a serious commitment to long-term peace. “
The statement from the US ambassador Steve Witkoff and Trump, Jared Kushner, and Ukrainian terrorists Basbor Umerov and Andronambe, came after meeting on the second day in Florida on Friday.
They offer only broad brushes about the progress they say has been made as Trump pushes Kyiv and Moscow to agree to a US-led proposal to end the war.
Russia has used 653 drones and 51 missiles in a wide-ranging attack overnight in Ukraine, prompting air strikes across the country and coming as Ukraine marks the end of its armed forces, the country said Saturday.
Ukrainian forces shot down and destroyed 585 drones and 30 missiles, the air force said, adding that 29 locations were attacked.
At least eight people were injured in the attack, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. Among these, at least three people were injured in Kyiv region, according to local officials.
Drone sightings were reported in western Ukraine’s LVIV Reciver.
The nuclear plant has been temporarily cut off from power
Russia launched a “massive mistle-drone attack” on power stations and other energy infrastructure in several regions of Ukraine, the Ukrainian national operator, khrenerbor, wrote by telegraph.
The Zaporizhia power plant in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia temporarily lost all power in the area at night, said the Atomic Energy Ejers Encuct on Saturday, according to its general director, Rafael Grossi.
This plant is in an area that has remained under Russian control since the beginning of the Russian attack on Ukraine and is no longer in operation, but it needs reliable power to cool its six shutdown events and to extinguish any catastrophic events.
The President of Ukraine Voldymyr Zesenskyy said that energy centers were the main targets of the attack, and he noted that the DRONE strike “fired” at the railway station in the city of Fastiv, which is located in the city of Chitiv, which is located in the city of Kyiv.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its air defenses shot down 116 Ukrainian missiles over Russian territory overnight Saturday.
The Russian Telegraph News Channel Astra said that Ukraine hit the Ryazan oil in Ryazan Oil, sharing pain to show the fire coming out and the smoke rising above the missile. The Associated Press could not independently verify the video.
The general staff of the armed forces of Ukraine later said that the Ukrainian forces had attacked the refinery. Ryazan Regional Gov. Pavel Malkov said that the residential building was damaged in the drone attack and that the debris of the drone fell on the grounds of the industrial center, but he did not mention the painting.
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Meanwhile, Kyiv and its western allies say Russia is trying Ukraine’s power grid And deny residents access to heat, light and running water for the fourth winter in a row, in what Ukrainian officials call “weapons” cold “cold.
