This morning, Russia launched a large number of missiles and ‘drones’ against Ukraine, after American and Ukrainian authorities announced that they would return, for the third day, to negotiations, to try to end the almost four-year war.
After negotiations that advanced a security agreement for post-war Ukraine, the two sides also admitted that any “real progress toward a settlement” will ultimately depend on “Russia’s willingness to show a serious commitment to long-term peace.”
The statement by US special envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Ukrainian negotiators Rustem Umerov and Andriy Hnatov was made after the second meeting they joined, on Friday, in Florida.
At least eight people were injured in the attackssaid Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko. Of these, at least three were injured in the Kiev region, according to local authorities.
‘Drones’ were also sighted in western Ukraine and the Lviv regionthey added.
Russia carried out a “massive attack with missiles and ‘drones'” against power plants and other energy infrastructure in several Ukrainian regions, Ukraine’s national energy operator Ukrenergo reported on Telegram.
Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia NPP temporarily lost all external power overnight, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported today citing the organization’s director general, Rafael Mariano Grossi.
The plant has been in an area under Russian control since the start of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and is not in operation, but it needs reliable power to cool its six decommissioned reactors and spent fuel in order to avoid catastrophic nuclear incidents.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said energy facilities were the main targets of the attacks, also noting that a ‘drone’ attack set fire to the railway station in the city of Fastiv, in the Kiev region.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that its air defenses shot down 116 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory during the early hours of today.
Russian news channel Astra on Telegram said Ukraine attacked the Ryazan oil refinery in Russia and shared images that appear to show a fire and clouds of smoke rising above the refinery.
The Associated Press was unable to independently verify the video.
Ukraine did not immediately comment on the alleged attack. Ryazan regional governor Pavel Malkov said that a residential building had been damaged in a drone attack and that drone debris had fallen on the grounds of an industrial facility, not to mention the refinery.