Newest Russian assaults on Ukraine kill 1 and wound 31 folks amid U.S.-led peace talks

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Russian assaults on Ukraine killed not less than one particular person and wounded 31 in a single day into Saturday simply hours earlier than negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the US met within the United Arab Emirates for a second day of talks to finish Russia's practically four-year full-scale invasion.

One particular person was killed and 4 have been wounded in Russian drone assaults on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in response to Kyiv's navy administration head Tymur Tkachenko.

In Ukraine's second-largest metropolis, Kharkiv, drone assaults wounded 27 folks, Kharkiv regional head Oleh Syniehubov mentioned Saturday.

The assaults got here as envoys have been anticipated to meet in Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital, for a second day of talks on Saturday. The talks are the primary identified occasion that officers from the Trump administration have sat down with each international locations as a part of Washington’s push for progress to finish Moscow’s invasion.

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Following the most recent assaults, Ukrainian Overseas Minister Andrii Sybiha slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin over the onslaught.

"Cynically, Putin ordered a brutal large missile strike towards Ukraine proper whereas delegations are assembly in Abu Dhabi to advance the America-led peace course of," Sybiha wrote on X. "His missiles hit not solely our folks, but in addition the negotiation desk."

WATCH | Peace talks start in Abu Dhabi: U.S.-Ukraine-Russia talks to be held in Abu Dhabi, Zelenskyy says

Ukrainian and Russian groups can have their first trilateral assembly with U.S. officers within the United Arab Emirates, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned Thursday on the World Financial Discussion board. There was a flurry of diplomatic exercise in current days, from Switzerland to the Kremlin, regardless that critical obstacles stay between either side.

Whereas Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday that a possible peace deal was "practically prepared," sure delicate sticking factors — most notably these associated to territorial points — stay unresolved.

Simply hours earlier than the three-way talks started, Putin mentioned a Ukraine settlement with U.S. President Donald Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner throughout marathon in a single day talks. The Kremlin insists that to succeed in a peace deal, Kyiv should withdraw its troops from the areas within the east that Russia illegally annexed however has not totally captured.